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In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonColumbine by Dave Cullen
Best True Crime
1,345 books — 1,886 voters
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
True Crime
726 books — 607 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandEndurance by Alfred LansingInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best True Survival Stories
417 books — 541 voters
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterThe Great Weather Diviner by Rob LongIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
All Creatures Great and Small
1,363 books — 190 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteZodiac by Robert GraysmithShadows of Truth by Barry FinlayEscaping the Arroyo by Joyce NanceKilling Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
True Crime Award Winners Collection
66 books — 89 voters
Ancestors & Angels by Jane L. CranmerWeird U.S. by Mark MoranMysterious America by Loren ColemanSeducing the Myth by Lucy FelthouseHaunted Heartland by Michael Norman
Books With True Ghost Stories, Hauntings, Legends, Myths, Strange Happenings, UFOs, Strange Creatures And More
275 books — 88 voters

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
476 books — 83 voters
Detour from Normal by Ken DicksonCome to the Edge by Christina HaagForty Autumns by Nina WillnerWho Said It Couldn't Be Done? by MS Denise JonesTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Best True Stories List
159 books — 74 voters

Trampling the Snake by Liz WilliamsThe Immigrant by Nery McMahonDark Skies by David HaldaneWild by Cheryl StrayedThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Memoirs I've Loved
200 books — 49 voters
Is He Ever Going to Leave His Wife? by Martess DowlingMommie Dearest by Christina CrawfordMy Sergei by Ekaterina GordeevaMust you go? by Antonia FraserJohn by Cynthia Lennon
Famous Friends, Family or people I worked for/with
224 books — 31 voters

American Desperado by Jon RobertsMr. Nice by Howard MarksPapillon by Henri CharrièreThe Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan BelfortMarching Powder by Rusty Young
Non Fiction Bad Asses
36 books — 20 voters
My Sergei by Ekaterina GordeevaThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterThe Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen BannermanThe Raven's Call by Rose WalkenA Bride's Story, Vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori
Please tell me a story.
360 books — 20 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Creepiest Conspiracy Theory Books
105 books — 19 voters
A Night to Remember by Walter LordTitanic Survivor by Violet JessopThomas Andrews by Shan F. BullockThe Night Lives On by Walter LordTitanic by Alan Hustak
Titanic People
36 books — 17 voters

Dead Wake by Erik LarsonExploring the Lusitania by Robert D. BallardWilful Murder by Diana PrestonLusitania by Greg KingSeven Days in May by Kim Izzo
Lusitania
21 books — 16 voters
Tracking Justice by Shirlee McCoyThe Finders by Jeffrey B. BurtonBackstage Iditarod, 2nd Edition by June PriceLast Call & other short stories by P. ComleyExplosive Secrets by Valerie Hansen
Dogs: Police, Search and Rescue, Service
60 books — 11 voters

Bare-faced Messiah by Russell MillerThe Masonic Myth by Jay KinneyListen Carefully by True Crime Detectives GuildThe Air Loom Gang by Mike JayThe Man Who Took Trips by Roy Ald
Sincerely, The Trooth
265 books — 11 voters
Catch and Kill by Ronan FarrowSay Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeUnbelievable by T. Christian MillerAmerican Predator by Maureen CallahanEmpire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Modern True Crime
121 books — 10 voters

Christy by Catherine MarshallThe Doctor's Lady by Jody HedlundOswald by Edoardo AlbertEdwin by Edoardo AlbertThe Abbess of Whitby by Jill Dalladay
Christian Fiction: Based on True-Real People
56 books — 9 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankELIS by Anna RajmonNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick DouglassThe Best of Gerald Durrell by Lee DurrellA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Interesting Autobiographies
149 books — 9 voters

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleMyths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
For your mind to improve....
97 books — 7 voters
Luminous Bodies Here And Hereafter (The Shining Ones); Being ... by Charles HallockThe Conquest of Gravitation by Walter F. DimmickAbsolute Relativism by Chris StefanickPublic Relations by Katie HeaneyVisible Learning by John Hattie
You Can't "Relate"
119 books — 7 voters

Moon Called by Patricia BriggsScandalous Desires by Elizabeth HoytPrincess Ben by Catherine Gilbert MurdockCharity Girl by Georgette HeyerA Pirate of Her Own by Kinley MacGregor
Virtue Names
88 books — 7 voters
The Stranger in the Woods by Michael FinkelThe Fear of Doing Nothing by Valery HazanovCall the Nurse by Mary J. MacLeodI'm Your Huckleberry by Val KilmerCatch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
Memoirs I Have Loved
141 books — 6 voters

I Sell Death - Autobiography of a Terrorist by RajThe Year Yellowstone Burned by Jeff HenryHearts Of Paradise by Jason SeearThe American Dream by David Lee WindecherBetween the Dances by Jacqueline Dinan
Best True Stories 2015
6 books — 5 voters
A Wedding for Julia by Vannetta ChapmanHearts That Survive by Yvonne LehmanThe Doctor's Lady by Jody HedlundPromise Me This by Cathy GohlkeSong of Springhill by Cheryl McKay
Christian Fiction: Based on True Events
10 books — 4 voters

The Haunted Graveyard and Other True Ghost Stories by Allan ZulloOne True Loves by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Woman Who Wasn't There by Robin Gaby FisherRedbone by Christian StaeblerThe Outbursts of Everett True by A.D. Condo
The Hunt for True October
131 books — 4 voters
The Delphi murders by Nic EdwardsGrim Paradise by Rod SadlerIn Broad Daylight by Harry N. MacLeanJustified by Louis RomanoSmash, Smash, Smash by Philip Fairbanks
Fall 2023 True Crime Picks
10 books — 2 voters

Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
TV Shows That Should Have Stayed True To The Book
1 book — 1 voter
Maus II by Art SpiegelmanFreedom At Midnight by Dominique LapierreH.P. Lovecraft by S.T. JoshiBosie by Douglas MurrayMemoirs of the Most Renowned James Graham, Marquis of Montrose by George Wishart
Biographies I Have Read
68 books — 1 voter

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