Read-alikes and related books

Books like Scared Silent

Readers who finished Scared Silent by Mildred Muhammad and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Criminals & Outlaws, True Crime, Personal Memoirs, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Top related books to Scared Silent

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

Mafia Princess — Marisa Merico

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

Shadow of My Father — John A. Gotti

Shadow of My Father

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

Rat Bastards The Life and Times of South Boston’s Most Honorable Irish Mobster — John Shea

Rat Bastards The Life and Times of South Boston’s Most Honorable Irish Mobster

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

The Five The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper — Hallie Rubenhold

The Five The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

When the Daltons Rode — Emmett Dalton

When the Daltons Rode

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

Mr Nasty Misadventures in the Drug World — Cameron White

Mr Nasty Misadventures in the Drug World

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

Breaking the Code A True Story by a Hells Angel President and the Cop Who Pursued Him — Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz

Breaking the Code A True Story by a Hells Angel President and the Cop Who Pursued Him

Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa — Michael Finkel

True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

Broadmoor My Journey Into Hell — Charles Bronson

Broadmoor My Journey Into Hell

Charles Bronson

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

The Officer’s Daughter A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness — Elle Johnson

The Officer’s Daughter A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

Little Sister My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood — Lana Wood

Little Sister My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

You Can’t Win — Jack Black

You Can’t Win

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

Mafiaboy A Portrait of the Hacker as a Young Man — Michael Calce

Mafiaboy A Portrait of the Hacker as a Young Man

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

The Killer Across the Table Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI’s Original Mindhunter — John E. Douglas

The Killer Across the Table Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI’s Original Mindhunter

John E. Douglas

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

The Good Rat A True Story — Jimmy Breslin

The Good Rat A True Story

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

Corruption Officer From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island — Gary L. Heyward

Corruption Officer From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island

Gary L. Heyward

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

The Most Dangerous Animal of All — Gary L. Stewart

The Most Dangerous Animal of All

Gary L. Stewart

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

To Live Outside the Law Caught by Operation Julie, Britain’s Biggest Drugs Bust — Leaf Fielding

To Live Outside the Law Caught by Operation Julie, Britain’s Biggest Drugs Bust

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

My Brother the Killer — Alix Sharkey

My Brother the Killer

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

Bad to Blue The True Story of a Chinatown Gangster Turned NYPD Detective — Mike Moy

Bad to Blue The True Story of a Chinatown Gangster Turned NYPD Detective

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

Monkey House Blues A Shanghai Prison Memoir — Dominic Stevenson

Monkey House Blues A Shanghai Prison Memoir

Dominic Stevenson

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

Brutal The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mob — Kevin Weeks

Brutal The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mob

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

The Betrayal of Anne Frank A Cold Case Investigation — Rosemary Sullivan

The Betrayal of Anne Frank A Cold Case Investigation

Rosemary Sullivan

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

With the Devil’s Help A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder — Neal Wooten

With the Devil’s Help A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Personal Memoirs

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Criminals & Outlaws, True Crime, Personal Memoirs — the same threads that run through Scared Silent by Mildred Muhammad. Among the authors featured: Marisa Merico, John A. Gotti, John Shea, Hallie Rubenhold, and others.

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