All the "Really Good Books" from The Hairpin

1.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,348 ratings
2.
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders 4.06 avg rating — 152,012 ratings
3.
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by: Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,003 ratings
4.
Columbine
Columbine 4.29 avg rating — 99,730 ratings
5.
Green River, Running Red
Green River, Running Red
by: Ann Rule
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19,713 ratings
6.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,138 ratings
7.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 46,996 ratings
8.
84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road 4.16 avg rating — 93,092 ratings
9.
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 88,695 ratings
10.
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche 3.91 avg rating — 21,848 ratings
11.
Fatal Vision
Fatal Vision 4.12 avg rating — 24,563 ratings
12.
A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town
A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town 4.01 avg rating — 2,347 ratings
13.
The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders
The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders 4.03 avg rating — 653 ratings
14.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin 4.39 avg rating — 18,860 ratings
15.
The Maul and the Pear Tree
The Maul and the Pear Tree 3.54 avg rating — 972 ratings
16.
Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell 3.88 avg rating — 1,719 ratings
17.
Famous Trials
Famous Trials 3.45 avg rating — 83 ratings
18.
The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse (Nancy Clue & Cherry Aimless, #1)
The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse (Nancy Clue & Cherry Aimless, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 609 ratings
19.
Tipping the Velvet
Tipping the Velvet 4.05 avg rating — 76,488 ratings
20.
Fall on Your Knees
Fall on Your Knees 3.97 avg rating — 67,612 ratings
21.
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith 4.03 avg rating — 873 ratings
22.
The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For
The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For 4.45 avg rating — 13,089 ratings
23.
The Well of Loneliness
The Well of Loneliness 3.76 avg rating — 18,800 ratings
24.
Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 109,439 ratings
25.
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America 4.02 avg rating — 4,056 ratings
26.
Rubyfruit Jungle
Rubyfruit Jungle 3.91 avg rating — 45,992 ratings
27.
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice 3.64 avg rating — 877 ratings
28.
The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women
The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women 3.15 avg rating — 440 ratings
29.
Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965
Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 3.81 avg rating — 262 ratings
30.
Odd Girl Out
Odd Girl Out 3.54 avg rating — 2,436 ratings
31.
Beebo Brinker
Beebo Brinker 3.68 avg rating — 1,528 ratings
32.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 3.73 avg rating — 89,518 ratings
33.
The Last American Man
The Last American Man 3.80 avg rating — 11,509 ratings
34.
The Black Donnellys
The Black Donnellys 3.74 avg rating — 551 ratings
35.
Bunny Bunny:: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Love Story
Bunny Bunny:: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Love Story 4.36 avg rating — 571 ratings
36.
Cat People
Cat People 3.19 avg rating — 303 ratings
37.
A Way of Life, Like Any Other
A Way of Life, Like Any Other 3.57 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
38.
Experience
Experience 3.90 avg rating — 4,012 ratings
39.
Let Me Finish
Let Me Finish 3.99 avg rating — 576 ratings
40.
Drinking: A Love Story
Drinking: A Love Story 4.09 avg rating — 21,113 ratings
41.
Writing Home
Writing Home 4.16 avg rating — 1,495 ratings
42.
Shot in the Heart
Shot in the Heart 4.18 avg rating — 3,796 ratings
43.
Ball Four
Ball Four 4.05 avg rating — 20,736 ratings
44.
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation 3.75 avg rating — 6,224 ratings
45.
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life 4.21 avg rating — 428 ratings
46.
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time 3.87 avg rating — 41,521 ratings
47.
Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story
Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story 3.50 avg rating — 4,579 ratings
48.
Roughing It in the Bush
Roughing It in the Bush 3.40 avg rating — 1,526 ratings
49.
Them: A Memoir of Parents
Them: A Memoir of Parents 3.89 avg rating — 641 ratings
50.
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939 3.60 avg rating — 712 ratings
51.
The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating — 71,038 ratings
52.
London Labour and the London Poor
London Labour and the London Poor 4.04 avg rating — 842 ratings
53.
London's Underworld
London's Underworld 4.06 avg rating — 322 ratings
54.
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York 4.11 avg rating — 2,579 ratings
55.
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory 4.14 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
56.
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 4.35 avg rating — 10,719 ratings
57.
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War 3.93 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
58.
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade 4.24 avg rating — 10,667 ratings
59.
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care 4.16 avg rating — 488 ratings
60.
American Wife
American Wife 3.78 avg rating — 64,289 ratings
61.
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Marie Antoinette: The Journey 3.94 avg rating — 38,047 ratings
62.
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker 3.85 avg rating — 1,476 ratings
63.
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography 3.94 avg rating — 1,579 ratings
64.
Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 3.69 avg rating — 545 ratings
65.
Innocent Blood
Innocent Blood 3.67 avg rating — 6,214 ratings
66.
Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)
Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 56,319 ratings
67.
Old Bones (Gideon Oliver, #4)
Old Bones (Gideon Oliver, #4) 4.03 avg rating — 2,569 ratings
68.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 110,508 ratings
69.
Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train 3.72 avg rating — 36,829 ratings
70.
Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2)
Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2) 3.71 avg rating — 13,671 ratings
71.
Ripley's Game (Ripley, #3)
Ripley's Game (Ripley, #3) 3.84 avg rating — 10,619 ratings
72.
The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4)
The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4) 3.65 avg rating — 6,286 ratings
73.
Ripley Under Water (Ripley, #5)
Ripley Under Water (Ripley, #5) 3.79 avg rating — 5,745 ratings
74.
The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8)
The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8) 3.92 avg rating — 4,865 ratings
75.
The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5) 3.89 avg rating — 37,196 ratings
76.
A Dark-Adapted Eye
A Dark-Adapted Eye 3.93 avg rating — 9,914 ratings
77.
The Scold's Bridle
The Scold's Bridle 3.91 avg rating — 10,076 ratings
78.
Longshot
Longshot 4.11 avg rating — 6,680 ratings
79.
Alias Grace
Alias Grace 4.04 avg rating — 153,256 ratings
80.
The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1)
The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 21,849 ratings
81.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin 4.08 avg rating — 207,209 ratings
82.
A Touch Of Frost (Inspector Frost, #2)
A Touch Of Frost (Inspector Frost, #2) 4.12 avg rating — 3,890 ratings
83.
The Judas Goat (Spenser, #5)
The Judas Goat (Spenser, #5) 4.10 avg rating — 10,872 ratings
84.
Young Men and Fire
Young Men and Fire 4.04 avg rating — 7,072 ratings
85.
Starplex
Starplex 3.83 avg rating — 2,604 ratings
86.
Saint Maybe
Saint Maybe 3.89 avg rating — 18,642 ratings
87.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.21 avg rating — 8,947 ratings
88.
Dangerous Visions
Dangerous Visions 4.14 avg rating — 9,908 ratings
89.
Birthday Letters
Birthday Letters 3.89 avg rating — 10,288 ratings
90.
Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1)
Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 20,125 ratings
91.
Too Bright to See & Alma
Too Bright to See & Alma 4.28 avg rating — 149 ratings
92.
Headhunter
Headhunter 3.85 avg rating — 1,637 ratings
93.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,441 ratings
94.
Jesus’ Son
Jesus’ Son 4.13 avg rating — 39,234 ratings
95.
The Nimrod Flipout
The Nimrod Flipout 3.95 avg rating — 5,475 ratings