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Serial Killers Books
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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 201 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 663,512 ratings — published 2023
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 160 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.26 — 595,417 ratings — published 1988
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 772,469 ratings — published 2003
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 379,483 ratings — published 1981
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.13 — 113,943 ratings — published 1980
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 124 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.11 — 268,511 ratings — published 2018
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.90 — 223,933 ratings — published 2004
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.80 — 373,286 ratings — published 1991
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.09 — 84,884 ratings — published 1995
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 43,523 ratings — published 2012
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.63 — 367,326 ratings — published 2018
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 84 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 327,038 ratings — published 2024
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
by (shelved 83 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.82 — 119,235 ratings — published 1999
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,064 ratings — published 2005
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.25 — 405,624 ratings — published 2016
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.79 — 42,571 ratings — published 2009
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 34,171 ratings — published 2012
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 155,525 ratings — published 1974
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 50,707 ratings — published 2019
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,885 ratings — published 2007
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,492,940 ratings — published 2005
The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,135 ratings — published
Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.36 — 354,482 ratings — published 2016
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.38 — 336,841 ratings — published 2016
A Flicker in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.97 — 629,211 ratings — published 2022
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,318 ratings — published 1989
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,032 ratings — published 2004
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.57 — 41,120 ratings — published 2006
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 52 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 214,391 ratings — published 2025
Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.54 — 333,859 ratings — published 2016
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.08 — 303,063 ratings — published 2016
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,151 ratings — published 1986
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,882 ratings — published 2004
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,285 ratings — published 1992
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 201,375 ratings — published 2019
The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.30 — 276 ratings — published 1988
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.22 — 380,074 ratings — published 2013
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.55 — 54,915 ratings — published 2013
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,378 ratings — published 1996
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 45 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.51 — 323,076 ratings — published 2016
Game (I Hunt Killers, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,915 ratings — published 2013
Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 43 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,313 ratings — published 2008
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,677 ratings — published 2007
Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.56 — 54,935 ratings — published 2006
The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,801 ratings — published 2003
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.50 — 193,574 ratings — published 2021
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.04 — 571,799 ratings — published 1985
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 183,055 ratings — published 1994
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.13 — 96,678 ratings — published 2025
Blood of My Blood (I Hunt Killers, #3)
by (shelved 38 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.32 — 10,419 ratings — published 2014
“Psychologist: "This, ah, is a new sort of, ah, psychopathology that we're only now beginning to, ah, understand. These, ah, super-serial killers have no, ah, 'type' but, ah, rather consider everyone to be their 'type.'"
Gramma: "Did you hear that? Your daddy's a superhero!”
― I Hunt Killers - Free Preview (The First 10 Chapters): with Bonus Prequel Short Story "Career Day"
Gramma: "Did you hear that? Your daddy's a superhero!”
― I Hunt Killers - Free Preview (The First 10 Chapters): with Bonus Prequel Short Story "Career Day"
“Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?”
― Darkly Dreaming Dexter
― Darkly Dreaming Dexter












