Sign in with Facebook
81 books
—
36 voters
True Crime Books
Showing 1-50 of 35,135
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 6605 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.11 — 266,223 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5838 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 736,751 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4472 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 112,920 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4130 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 765,387 ratings — published 2003
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3942 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,783 ratings — published 1974
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 3623 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 453,166 ratings — published 2017
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2759 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 83,715 ratings — published 1995
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2534 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.29 — 103,333 ratings — published 2009
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2351 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 49,758 ratings — published 2019
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2177 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 297,608 ratings — published 1994
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1935 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 359,793 ratings — published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 1841 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 227,032 ratings — published 2003
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1554 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,646 ratings — published 2004
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1545 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.26 — 32,631 ratings — published 1987
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1513 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 69,086 ratings — published 2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1478 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.47 — 173,267 ratings — published 2018
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1436 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.62 — 27,121 ratings — published 2013
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1384 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 283,688 ratings — published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1369 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,839 ratings — published 1986
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1334 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 23,596 ratings — published 2010
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1268 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,013 ratings — published 2008
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1195 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,694 ratings — published 2019
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1138 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,953 ratings — published 2022
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 1133 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,878 ratings — published 2002
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1101 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,131 ratings — published 2019
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1094 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 103,229 ratings — published 2019
The Cases That Haunt Us (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1070 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,923 ratings — published 2000
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1025 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,942 ratings — published 2017
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 993 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 22,374 ratings — published 2017
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 946 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,811 ratings — published 1983
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 934 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 85,277 ratings — published 2006
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 933 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 26,697 ratings — published 2019
Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 896 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,024 ratings — published
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 895 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,116 ratings — published 1992
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 893 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,022 ratings — published 2013
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 850 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 59,407 ratings — published 2015
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 847 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 102,418 ratings — published 2023
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 830 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 13,222 ratings — published 2020
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 816 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 25,280 ratings — published 2008
The I-5 Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 816 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,374 ratings — published 1984
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 809 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,586 ratings — published 2019
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 801 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 148,155 ratings — published 2011
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 786 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 37,525 ratings — published 2010
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 758 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,848 ratings — published 1991
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 746 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,140 ratings — published 1997
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 744 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 35,996 ratings — published 2018
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 729 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,617 ratings — published 1979
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 705 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,440 ratings — published 1991
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 701 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,199 ratings — published 1989
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 700 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.47 — 9,698 ratings — published 2017
“Violence was a slippery slope, lubricated by a lot of blood, if history had any lessons to teach.”
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
“They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
