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A breathless, true-crime historical thriller that plunges you into the desperate, shadowy swamps of a twelve-day national manhunt. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Chasing Lincoln's killer.
- tense
- shadowy
- gripping
- somber
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Manhunt
James L. Swanson
A ticking-clock historical thriller that plunges the reader into the desperate, hour-by-hour pursuit of America's most notorious fugitive.
- 02
Lincoln's Grave Robbers
Steve Sheinkin
A tense, stranger-than-fiction historical heist that reads like a thriller.
- 03
Killing Lincoln
Bill O'Reilly
A cinematic, present-tense plunge into one of history's darkest moments that reads with the breathless urgency of a ticking-clock thriller.
- 04
Lincoln
Russell Freedman
A visually rich, deeply humanizing portrait that strips away the myth to reveal the man.
- 05
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Janet B. Pascal
An engaging, fast-paced, and heavily illustrated introduction to the life and legacy of a monumental historical figure.
- 06
Killing Kennedy
Bill O'Reilly
A cinematic, ticking-clock narrative that transforms a well-known historical tragedy into a suspenseful collision of two very different lives.
- 07
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Seth Grahame-Smith
A straight-faced, blood-soaked reimagining of American history where the greatest political battles are fought with an axe in the dark.
- 08
Assassination vacation
Sarah Vowell
A delightfully morbid and deeply nerdy road trip through the weirdest, darkest corners of American history.
- 09
Abraham Lincoln
Carl Sandburg
A sweeping, poetic immersion into the soul of an American icon and the fractured nation he carried on his shoulders.
- 10
Our American hero
J. K. Ronayne
A sweeping, evidence-driven journey across Civil War-era cities that challenges the accepted narrative of one of history's most famous assassinations.
- 11
Lincoln
David Herbert Donald
A masterful, deeply humanizing portrait of a leader evolving under the crushing weight of a fractured nation.
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Abraham Lincoln
Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
A sweeping, richly illustrated journey through a frontier childhood into the solemn halls of history, told with the warmth of an American folktale.
