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Serial Killers Books
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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 194 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 625,887 ratings — published 2023
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 158 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.26 — 589,781 ratings — published 1988
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,687 ratings — published 2003
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 374,514 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 — 112,359 ratings — published 1980
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.90 — 219,938 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 — 265,019 ratings — published 2018
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.09 — 83,010 ratings — published 1995
American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 96 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.80 — 364,537 ratings — published 1991
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 43,208 ratings — published 2012
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.64 — 355,436 ratings — published 2018
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
by (shelved 82 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.82 — 117,576 ratings — published 1999
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 305,737 ratings — published 2024
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,224 ratings — published 2005
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.79 — 42,080 ratings — published 2009
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 33,721 ratings — published 2012
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.25 — 377,932 ratings — published 2016
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,346 ratings — published 1974
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,480 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 — 49,096 ratings — published 2019
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,457,831 ratings — published 2005
Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,983 ratings — published
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,108 ratings — published 1989
Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.36 — 331,499 ratings — published 2016
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,993 ratings — published 2004
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.57 — 40,514 ratings — published 2006
A Flicker in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.97 — 607,396 ratings — published 2022
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.08 — 196,431 ratings — published 2025
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.38 — 315,972 ratings — published 2016
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.09 — 287,850 ratings — published 2016
The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.17 — 363 ratings — published 1988
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,469 ratings — published 2004
Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.55 — 314,089 ratings — published 2016
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,619 ratings — published 1986
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 196,399 ratings — published 2019
Game (I Hunt Killers, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,784 ratings — published 2013
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.54 — 54,384 ratings — published 2013
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,993 ratings — published 1992
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.79 — 26,203 ratings — published 1996
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 43 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.51 — 304,058 ratings — published 2016
Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 43 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.76 — 29,703 ratings — published 2008
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.22 — 349,401 ratings — published 2013
Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.56 — 53,968 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 — 4,779 ratings — published 2003
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,546 ratings — published 2007
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 181,762 ratings — published 1994
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.78 — 119,452 ratings — published 2021
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.50 — 187,210 ratings — published 2021
Blood of My Blood (I Hunt Killers, #3)
by (shelved 38 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.32 — 10,306 ratings — published 2014
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.04 — 557,268 ratings — published 1985
“Manipulation. Domination. Control. These are the three watchwords of violent serial offenders.”
― Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
― Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
“You can count on that one.” She looked down into her glass. “If Harry Beech tells you that he knows the devil himself,” she looked up, met my gaze and finished in a serious voice, “then you should believe him.”
― The Deathbed Confessions
― The Deathbed Confessions











