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Books like Midnight Express

24 books recommended for fans of Midnight Express by Billy Hayes, tied together by themes of Biography & Autobiography.

Biography & Autobiography

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Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Midnight Express.

Beverly Hills Spy The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor — Ronald Drabkin

Beverly Hills Spy The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

A Killer by Design Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind — Ann Wolbert Burgess

A Killer by Design Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

Ann Wolbert Burgess

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Dial M The Murder of Carol Thompson — William Swanson

Dial M The Murder of Carol Thompson

William Swanson

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Barn The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi — Wright Thompson

The Barn The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Will You Listen Now? — Judith Hilton

Will You Listen Now?

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

To Kill the Irishman Danny Greene and the War that Crippled the Mafia — Rick Porrello

To Kill the Irishman Danny Greene and the War that Crippled the Mafia

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Art Thief A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession — Michael Finkel

The Art Thief A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

All That Remains A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes — Sue Black

All That Remains A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

A Twisted Faith A Minister’s Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church — Gregg Olsen

A Twisted Faith A Minister’s Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Driven to Crime True Stories of Wrongdoing in Motor Racing — Crispian Besley

Driven to Crime True Stories of Wrongdoing in Motor Racing

Crispian Besley

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Last Outlaws The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang — Tom Clavin

The Last Outlaws The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Scam Goddess Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes — Laci Mosley

Scam Goddess Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Unbelievable Crimes Volume One Macabre Yet Unknown True Crime Stories — Daniela Airlie

Unbelievable Crimes Volume One Macabre Yet Unknown True Crime Stories

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Irishman, Gotti, and Mafia Hitmen The Organized Crime Bundle

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Bughouse The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound — Daniel Swift

The Bughouse The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Library Book — Susan Orlean

The Library Book

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Typhoid Mary An Urban Historical — Anthony Bourdain

Typhoid Mary An Urban Historical

Anthony Bourdain

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Quiet Don The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino — Matt Birkbeck

The Quiet Don The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute — Jonathan Mayo

The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Among the Thugs — Bill Buford

Among the Thugs

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Oswald’s Tale An American Mystery — Norman Mailer

Oswald’s Tale An American Mystery

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

We Thought We Knew You A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder — M. William Phelps

We Thought We Knew You A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

M. William Phelps

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The White House Plumbers The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon’s Presidency — Egil “Bud” Krogh

The White House Plumbers The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon’s Presidency — Egil “Bud” Krogh

Egil "Bud" Krogh

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Witch of New York The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice — Alex Hortis

The Witch of New York The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Midnight Express by Billy Hayes. Connected by Biography & Autobiography. Authors featured include Ronald Drabkin, Ann Wolbert Burgess, William Swanson, Wright Thompson, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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