Recs if you like The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft...
Nonfiction that's actually fun to read
These are some of my favorites and books I want to read--nonfiction that reads like fiction or is otherwise compelling. If you're intimidated by books on history, science, memoir, or other subgenres in nonfiction, start here.
Books that Feel Like a Good Heist Movie
recently gotten really obsessed with heists/heist movies (if anyone can find anything that scratches the same itch “The Sting” does I would be forever grateful) and I’m trying to collect books with similar feels/themes. very very open to suggestions.
bring back heists
art heists, forging, provenance, art crimes galore!
Heists
It's a Heist! (Non-fiction)
A collection of illegal collectors. What's the obsession? Thieving or what's thieved?
(Also I think if they had like Smiskis or Labubus things might have been different)
Suggestions welcome!
The Drama with Museum Heists
"I'll take you away from here."
true crime for the squeamish
nonfiction about crime that is not* murder, rape, or war crimes: financial crime, cons, burglary, heists, fraud, forgery, art crime, trespass, political bribery, espionage, and arson
*NOT a guarantee of NO violence. please research content warnings if you need them.
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