Read-alikes and related books

Books like Marching Powder

If you loved Marching Powder by Rusty Young, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Crime & Criminal Biographies, General, South America, and True Crime.

Crime & Criminal Biographies General South America True Crime Biographies & Memoirs Travel

Top related books to Marching Powder

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

The Shift — Dana Da Silva

Themes: General • South America • Biographies & Memoirs

Marching Powder A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail — Rusty Young

Marching Powder A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail

Themes: South America • True Crime • Travel

The Gabardine Gang Power and Betrayal in Hartford’s Mob Scene — Kevin B Dibacco

The Gabardine Gang Power and Betrayal in Hartford’s Mob Scene

Kevin B Dibacco

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Killing the Bordens Lizzie Borden and the Unsolved 1892 Borden Murders — C. Cree

Killing the Bordens Lizzie Borden and the Unsolved 1892 Borden Murders

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Velvet Hammer Judge Belvin Perry, Jr.’s Capital Murder Cases and Memoir — Belvin Perry

The Velvet Hammer Judge Belvin Perry, Jr.’s Capital Murder Cases and Memoir

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Murder Beyond the Grave (ID True Crime, 3) — James Patterson

Murder Beyond the Grave (ID True Crime, 3)

James Patterson

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Jack the Ripper at Last? George Chapman, the Southwark Poisoner — Helena Wojtczak

Jack the Ripper at Last? George Chapman, the Southwark Poisoner

Helena Wojtczak

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Die Murchison-Morde — ARTHUR W. UPFIELD

Die Murchison-Morde

Arthur W. Upfield

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

People Who Eat Darkness The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up — Richard Lloyd Parry

People Who Eat Darkness The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

Richard Lloyd Parry

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Shadow Work Journal; For Black Men When You Don’t Want to Talk about it — Nzinga Islam

Shadow Work Journal; For Black Men When You Don’t Want to Talk about it

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Right on the Scaffold, Or The Martyrs Of 1822 — Archibald Henry Grimké

Right on the Scaffold, Or The Martyrs Of 1822

Archibald Henry Grimké

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

From Politics To Prison — Larry Barton

From Politics To Prison

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Lethal Doses — John Madinger

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Inside Out Stories of Redemption From Prison — Kenneth C. McKenzie

Inside Out Stories of Redemption From Prison

Kenneth C. McKenzie

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Murder in Small Towns When Evil Lurks in Quiet Places: Uncovering Chilling Murders and Hidden Secrets in America’s Quiet Communities — CHATSTICK. TEAM

Murder in Small Towns When Evil Lurks in Quiet Places: Uncovering Chilling Murders and Hidden Secrets in America’s Quiet Communities

CHATSTICK. TEAM

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Spying With The Enemy — Paul Dawson

Spying With The Enemy — Paul Dawson

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Brothers of the Gun Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in Tombstone — Mark Lee Gardner

Brothers of the Gun Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in Tombstone

Mark Lee Gardner

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

There Is No Ethan How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish — Anna Akbari

There Is No Ethan How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Murderous Minds Germany — Alan Warren

Murderous Minds Germany

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Deviant — Harold Schechter

Harold Schechter

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Hazel Boyz — Deon Patrick

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Criminal and His Allies — Marcus Kavanagh

The Criminal and His Allies

Marcus Kavanagh

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels — Jay Dobyns

No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

You’ll Never Believe Me A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist — Kari Ferrell

You’ll Never Believe Me A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist

Themes: Crime & Criminal Biographies • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

If Marching Powder by Rusty Young is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Crime & Criminal Biographies, General, South America and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Dana Da Silva, Rusty Young, Kevin B Dibacco, C. Cree, and others.

More by Rusty Young

Marching Powder — Rusty Young

Marching Powder

Explore more

More by Rusty Young More books tagged Crime & Criminal Biographies Explore General

An informational database of English-language books