Read-alikes and related books

Books like Burial Rites

If you loved Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Murder, Biographical, True Crime, and Crime.

Murder Biographical True Crime Crime Women Mystery & Detective Thrillers Historical History Fiction

Top related books to Burial Rites

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

People of Abandoned Character

Clare Whitfield

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Crime

America’s First Female Serial Killer Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster

Mary Kay McBrayer

Themes: Murder • Biographical • True Crime

Who Killed the Girls?

Jane Bell

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Crime

The City of the Living

Nicola Lagioia

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Crime

A Darker Side of Paradise

R.J. Ellory

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Crime

Speed Kills Who killed the Cigarette Boat King, the fastest man on the seas?

Arthur Jay Harris

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Crime

My Sister, My Love The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike

Joyce Carol Oates

Themes: Biographical • Crime • Women

The Darkest Night Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town

Ron Franscell

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Crime

The Younger Girl A Dark Labyrinth of Family Betrayal

Georgia Jeffries

Themes: Biographical • True Crime • Crime

#10

Jack the Ripper Terrible Legacy The Terrible Legacy

The Whitechapel Society

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Mystery & Detective

#11

The Killer Book of Cold Cases Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Most Baffling True Crime Cases of All Time

Tom Philbin

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Mystery & Detective

#12

Killer Cocktails Dangerous Drinks Inspired by History’s Most Nefarious Criminals

Holly Frey

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Mystery & Detective

#13

Scoundrel How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

Sarah Weinman

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Women

#14

Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions

Amy Stewart

Themes: Biographical • Crime • Women

#15

18 Tiny Deaths The Untold Story of the Woman who Invented Modern Forensics

Bruce Goldfarb

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Women

#16

The Angel Makers Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring

Patti McCracken

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Women

#17

The Deaths of Sybil Bolton Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation

Dennis McAuliffe

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Women

#18

Tamburlaine Must Die

Louise Welsh

Themes: Biographical • Crime • Mystery & Detective

#19

Blood on Their Hands Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Mandy Matney

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Women

#20

Army Wives The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage

Tanya Biank

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Women

#21

Shakespeare for Squirrels A Novel — Christopher Moore

CHRISTOPHER. MOORE

Themes: Biographical • Crime • Mystery & Detective

#22

Little Sister My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood

Lana Wood

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Women

#23

Obra maestra

Juan Tallón

Themes: Biographical • True Crime • Thrillers

#24

Story of a Murder The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen

Hallie Rubenhold

Themes: Murder • True Crime • Women

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Murder, Biographical, True Crime — the same threads that run through Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. Among the authors featured: Clare Whitfield, Mary Kay McBrayer, Jane Bell, Nicola Lagioia, and others.