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Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
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Tim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 11,933 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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David Grann (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 107,886 ratings
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Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
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Carl Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 5,407 ratings
score: 788,
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If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children
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Gregg Olsen (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 7,214 ratings
score: 492,
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5 people voted
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Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
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3.74 avg rating — 2,534 ratings
score: 388,
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Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo
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Eliott Behar (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 171 ratings
score: 300,
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The Princes in the Tower
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3.53 avg rating — 106 ratings
score: 295,
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Wallenberg: Missing Hero
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4.17 avg rating — 767 ratings
score: 200,
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Into the Wild
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,172,840 ratings
score: 200,
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A Kingdom Strange: The Brief And Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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3.60 avg rating — 783 ratings
score: 198,
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Vanished: The Life and Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 197,
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
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James Renner (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 8,433 ratings
score: 195,
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Lost Boys of Hannibal: Inside America's Largest Cave Search
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3.91 avg rating — 183 ratings
score: 192,
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The Last Season
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4.11 avg rating — 11,457 ratings
score: 190,
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Jim Thompson: The Unsolved Mystery
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3.59 avg rating — 311 ratings
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The Legendary Life of Bee Ho Gray
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Clark Gray (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Missing: Missing Without Trace in Ireland
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3.78 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Dead Air - The Disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit
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3.62 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Hunt For Amelia Earhart: America's Greatest Search
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Es geschah an der Mauer - It happened at the Wall - Cela sést passé au Mur - É accaduto al Muro - Sucedio en el Muro
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4.19 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
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4.11 avg rating — 12,147 ratings
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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
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Andrea Lankford (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 14,990 ratings
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A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
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3.33 avg rating — 574 ratings
score: 99,
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Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
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Candace Fleming (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 8,187 ratings
score: 99,
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The Lost Cyclist: The Untold Story of Frank Lenz's Ill-Fated Around-the-World Journey
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3.49 avg rating — 885 ratings
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Twilight Of Innocence: The Disappearance Of Beverly Potts
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3.93 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Tracking Amelia Earhart: Her Flight Path to the End
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 99,
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The Perfect Storm
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Sebastian Junger (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 118,151 ratings
score: 99,
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Missing: Believed Killed: Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Glenn Miller and the Duke of Kent
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3.55 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 98,
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Amy Fitzpatrick: Please Find My Daughter
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score: 98,
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Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case Of America's Unknown Child
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3.97 avg rating — 325 ratings
score: 98,
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The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
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3.49 avg rating — 216 ratings
score: 98,
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A Beautiful Child
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Matt Birkbeck (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 2,446 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny
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4.05 avg rating — 401 ratings
score: 97,
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Gone: The Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence and Her Father's Desperate Search for the Truth
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Neil Root (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 70 ratings
score: 96,
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Sea of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
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4.52 avg rating — 104 ratings
score: 96,
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Amelia Earhart
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3.55 avg rating — 204 ratings
score: 95,
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Who Killed the Candy Lady?: Unwrapping the Unsolved Murder of Helen Brach
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3.58 avg rating — 50 ratings
score: 95,
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Vanished: The Truth About the Disappearance of Madeline McCann
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3.28 avg rating — 359 ratings
score: 94,
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Where's Opie? Vanished in Chicago
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Donald Ross (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 94,
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Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
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3.87 avg rating — 1,501 ratings
score: 94,
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Last Hours on Everest
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Graham Hoyland (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 425 ratings
score: 94,
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Thin Air: The Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Helen Brach
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 93,
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Where s Opie?: Life Goes On
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Donald Ross (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 93,
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The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing ANZACS
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4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 93,
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The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me
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3.99 avg rating — 4,533 ratings
score: 93,
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The Missing Three: The Story of the Missing Women from Springfield, Missouri
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Dave Warren (editor)
3.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
score: 92,
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Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise
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3.63 avg rating — 538 ratings
score: 92,
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Unmasking the Killer of the Missing Beaumont Children
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3.85 avg rating — 178 ratings
score: 92,
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 123,665 ratings
score: 91,
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Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith
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4.18 avg rating — 896 ratings
score: 91,
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The Last Place You'd Look: True Stories of Missing Persons and the People Who Search for Them
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Carole Moore (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 123 ratings
score: 90,
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After Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive
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Lisa R. Cohen (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 517 ratings
score: 89,
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Why Johnny Can't Come Home
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3.92 avg rating — 75 ratings
score: 88,
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Vanished: The Michael Dunahee Story
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Valerie Green (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 87,
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list created June 20th, 2015
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