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Books like Public Enemies

Looking for read-alikes for Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough? These 24 titles overlap in Criminology, True Crime, and Social Science and overall literary texture.

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

The Eternal Recurrence of Crime and Control Essays in Honour of Paul Rock — Tim Newburn

The Eternal Recurrence of Crime and Control Essays in Honour of Paul Rock

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

The Furies Women, Vengeance, and Justice — Elizabeth Flock (Journalist)

The Furies Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Elizabeth Flock (Journalist)

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Trespasses Portrait of a Serial Rapist — Howard Swindle

Trespasses Portrait of a Serial Rapist

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Illinois Crime — Bill Nunes

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Foul deeds & suspicious deaths in and around Bradford — Stephen Wade

Foul deeds & suspicious deaths in and around Bradford

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

The Real CSI A Forensic Handbook for Crime Writers — Kate Bendelow

The Real CSI A Forensic Handbook for Crime Writers

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective — Kate Summerscale

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Kate Summerscale

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Unlocked A Journey from Prison to Proust — Louis Ferrante

Unlocked A Journey from Prison to Proust

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Hell Comes To Play The True Untold Story of America’s Mass Murdering Family, The Bloody Benders — Lee Ralph

Hell Comes To Play The True Untold Story of America’s Mass Murdering Family, The Bloody Benders

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Drugs As Weapons Against Us The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists — John L. Potash

Drugs As Weapons Against Us The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

The Ultimate Serial Killer Trivia Book A Collection Of Fascinating Facts And Disturbing Details About Infamous Serial Killers And Their Horrific Crimes (Perfect True Crime Gift) — Jack Rosewood

The Ultimate Serial Killer Trivia Book A Collection Of Fascinating Facts And Disturbing Details About Infamous Serial Killers And Their Horrific Crimes (Perfect True Crime Gift)

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Capturing Jack the Ripper In the Boots of a Bobby in Victorian London — Neil R. A. Bell

Capturing Jack the Ripper In the Boots of a Bobby in Victorian London

Neil R. A. Bell

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Hands Through Stone How Clarence Ray Allen Masterminded Murder from Behind Folsom’s Prison Walls — James A. Ardaiz

Hands Through Stone How Clarence Ray Allen Masterminded Murder from Behind Folsom’s Prison Walls

James A. Ardaiz

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Hoods The Gangs of Nottingham – A Study in Organized Crime — Carl Fellstrom

Hoods The Gangs of Nottingham – A Study in Organized Crime

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Hate Crimes Causes, Controls, and Controversies — Phyllis B. Gerstenfeld

Hate Crimes Causes, Controls, and Controversies

Phyllis B. Gerstenfeld

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Death’s Acre Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales — Dr. Bill Bass

Death’s Acre Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Mindhunter Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit — John E. Douglas

Mindhunter Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit

John E. Douglas

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

White-Collar Crime An Opportunity Perspective — Michael L. Benson

White-Collar Crime An Opportunity Perspective

Michael L. Benson

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Complying with Genocide The Wolf You Feed — E.N. Anderson

Complying with Genocide The Wolf You Feed

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Dopeworld Undercover in the Secret War on Drugs — Niko Vorobyov

Dopeworld Undercover in the Secret War on Drugs

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Dying to Cross The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History — Jorge Ramos

Dying to Cross The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

Gendering Green Criminology — Emma Milne

Gendering Green Criminology

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

The Annotated I Caught Crippen — Nicholas Connell

The Annotated I Caught Crippen

Nicholas Connell

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

The Skeleton Crew How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases — Deborah Halber

The Skeleton Crew How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases

Themes: Criminology • True Crime • Social Science

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough. Connected by Criminology, True Crime, Social Science. Authors featured include Tim Newburn, Elizabeth Flock (Journalist), Howard Swindle, Bill Nunes, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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