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Serial Killers Books
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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 198 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 649,000 ratings — published 2023
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 159 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.26 — 593,036 ratings — published 1988
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 767,952 ratings — published 2003
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 377,395 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 4.14 — 113,274 ratings — published 1980
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.90 — 222,543 ratings — published 2004
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 121 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.11 — 266,985 ratings — published 2018
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.80 — 370,028 ratings — published 1991
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.09 — 84,122 ratings — published 1995
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 43,365 ratings — published 2012
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.64 — 362,838 ratings — published 2018
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
by (shelved 83 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.82 — 118,588 ratings — published 1999
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 318,794 ratings — published 2024
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,720 ratings — published 2005
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.79 — 42,383 ratings — published 2009
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.25 — 394,326 ratings — published 2016
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 34,002 ratings — published 2012
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 155,056 ratings — published 1974
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,729 ratings — published 2007
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.08 — 50,112 ratings — published 2019
Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,057 ratings — published
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,478,646 ratings — published 2005
Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.36 — 344,737 ratings — published 2016
A Flicker in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.97 — 620,352 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 — 10,238 ratings — published 1989
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,017 ratings — published 2004
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.57 — 40,891 ratings — published 2006
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 52 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.38 — 328,111 ratings — published 2016
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 51 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.08 — 207,409 ratings — published 2025
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.09 — 296,749 ratings — published 2016
Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
by (shelved 49 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.55 — 326,316 ratings — published 2016
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,958 ratings — published 1986
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,766 ratings — published 2004
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 198,903 ratings — published 2019
The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.31 — 276 ratings — published 1988
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.54 — 54,711 ratings — published 2013
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,201 ratings — published 1992
Game (I Hunt Killers, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,853 ratings — published 2013
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,903 ratings — published 1996
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 44 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.51 — 315,813 ratings — published 2016
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.22 — 368,112 ratings — published 2013
Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 43 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,116 ratings — published 2008
Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.56 — 54,588 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 4.07 — 4,793 ratings — published 2003
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,627 ratings — published 2007
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.78 — 120,897 ratings — published 2021
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.50 — 191,120 ratings — published 2021
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 182,483 ratings — published 1994
Blood of My Blood (I Hunt Killers, #3)
by (shelved 38 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.32 — 10,363 ratings — published 2014
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.04 — 566,299 ratings — published 1985
“Joe “Hunt” Gamsky still purports to be a devotee of Yogananda and is visited occasionally by members of Ananda Church of Self-Realization. I wonder, if they or anyone ever asks Joe how it felt to strangle poor little Richard Mayer; Or how he feels about getting away with that now?”
― The Price of Experience
― The Price of Experience
“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












