True Crime by Women and POC
1. 
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating — 257,773 ratings
2. 
Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
by:
Rebecca Renner
3.80 avg rating — 3,059 ratings 3. 
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by:
Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,003 ratings 4. 
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
by:
Maureen Callahan
4.08 avg rating — 45,978 ratings 5. 
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,221 ratings 
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
by:
Helen Prejean
4.14 avg rating — 8,952 ratings 9. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,514 ratings 10. 
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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir
by:
Jeannie Vanasco
3.91 avg rating — 3,104 ratings 
13. 
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
by:
Rachel Monroe
3.70 avg rating — 6,048 ratings 14. 
My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
by:
Helen Morrison
3.35 avg rating — 2,518 ratings 15. 
I Survived Ted Bundy: The Attack, Escape & PTSD That Changed My Life
by:
Rhonda Stapley
4.09 avg rating — 438 ratings 16. 
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
by:
Sue Klebold
4.14 avg rating — 44,123 ratings 17. 
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia 3.12 avg rating — 6,341 ratings
21. 
Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
by:
Elizabeth Ford
3.98 avg rating — 2,050 ratings 
23. 
Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
by:
Rabia Chaudry
4.12 avg rating — 10,806 ratings 
26. 
The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable: A True Tale of Passion, Poison and Pursuit
by:
Carol Baxter
3.55 avg rating — 186 ratings 27. 
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster 3.90 avg rating — 29,487 ratings
28. 
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
by:
Sarah Weinman
3.41 avg rating — 7,422 ratings 29. 
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us 4.50 avg rating — 8,099 ratings
30. 
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
by:
Paula Uruburu
3.74 avg rating — 3,061 ratings 31. 
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
by:
Tanya Talaga
4.52 avg rating — 14,024 ratings 31. 
Trials of Passion: Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness
by:
Lisa Appignanesi
3.31 avg rating — 144 ratings 
33. 
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by:
Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating — 44,187 ratings 35. 
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue 3.31 avg rating — 1,665 ratings
36. 
Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper
by:
Carol Ann Lee
4.28 avg rating — 690 ratings 37. 
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
by:
Kate Harding
4.37 avg rating — 4,206 ratings 38. 
Tears of the Silenced: A True Crime and an American Tragedy; Severe Child Abuse and Leaving the Amish
by:
Misty Griffin
4.28 avg rating — 25,858 ratings 
41. 
Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System 4.34 avg rating — 2,370 ratings
42. 
Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw
by:
Maryanne Vollers
3.96 avg rating — 264 ratings 43. 
Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival
by:
Diane Noomin
4.35 avg rating — 654 ratings 43. 
Family Skeleton: A Brother and Sister's Journey from Murder to Truth 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Madman in the Woods: Life Next Door to the Unabomber
by:
Jamie Gehring
3.90 avg rating — 564 ratings 43. 
A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever
by:
Kim Mager
3.80 avg rating — 1,530 ratings 
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by:
Samantha Power
4.26 avg rating — 10,877 ratings 
50. 
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating — 257,773 ratings
50. 
The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
by:
Andrea Dunlop
4.15 avg rating — 4,458 ratings 56. 
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
by:
Harold Schechter
3.47 avg rating — 14,869 ratings 56. 
Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror
by:
Angela D. Sims
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings 58. 
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
by:
Elissa Wall
3.95 avg rating — 31,195 ratings 58. 
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI 4.06 avg rating — 12,540 ratings
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Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball
by:
Howard Bryant
3.87 avg rating — 289 ratings 
64. 
Sole Survivor: The Inspiring True Story of Coming Face to Face with the Infamous Railroad Killer
by:
Holly K. Dunn
4.25 avg rating — 630 ratings 
66. 
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by:
Monica Hesse
3.79 avg rating — 16,446 ratings 
68. 
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster 3.68 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
68. 
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
by:
Amy Louise Wood
3.98 avg rating — 100 ratings 
70. 
Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham 3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
75. 
The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets 3.79 avg rating — 1,845 ratings
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Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings
77. 
Invisible Victims: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women (Crimes Canada: True Crimes That Shocked the Nation, #15) 3.85 avg rating — 100 ratings
77. 
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
by:
Laura Wexler
3.99 avg rating — 369 ratings 79. 
The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth
by:
Karen Branan
3.53 avg rating — 250 ratings 80. 
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief
by:
Doris Payne
3.83 avg rating — 2,447 ratings 80. 
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country 3.76 avg rating — 5,943 ratings
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Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman
by:
Tammy Mal
4.06 avg rating — 228 ratings 83. 
Special Agent: My Life On the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI
by:
Candice Delong
3.95 avg rating — 747 ratings 
86. 
A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy
by:
Deborah McDonald
3.62 avg rating — 145 ratings 
89. 
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
by:
Clea Koff
4.02 avg rating — 2,953 ratings 89. 
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.48 avg rating — 6,558 ratings 92. 
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
by:
Laura Cumming
3.58 avg rating — 6,488 ratings 92. 
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.51 avg rating — 24,676 ratings 94. 
The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con
by:
Amy Reading
3.32 avg rating — 605 ratings 95. 
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by:
Jodi Kantor
4.34 avg rating — 43,155 ratings 95. 
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
by:
Karen Abbott
3.70 avg rating — 6,825 ratings 
98. 
The Traffic in Women and Other Essays on Feminism
by:
Emma Goldman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129 ratings 98. 
