True Crime by Women and POC
100. 
The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder
by:
Nikki Meredith
3.23 avg rating — 1,750 ratings 
103. 
Women and the Gallows 1797-1837: Unfortunate Wretches
by:
Naomi Clifford
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45 ratings 
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106. 
Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement
by:
Wendy L. Rouse
4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings 106. 
The Notorious Reno Gang: The Wild Story of the West's First Brotherhood of Thieves, Assassins, and Train Robbers
by:
Rachel Dickinson
3.60 avg rating — 78 ratings 109. 
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Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences 3.93 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
113. 
Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
by:
Karen L. Cox
3.56 avg rating — 431 ratings 115. 
Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City 3.61 avg rating — 4,107 ratings
116. 
The Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
by:
Teresa Rodríguez
3.84 avg rating — 1,258 ratings 117. 
A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming
by:
Kerri Rawson
3.46 avg rating — 13,727 ratings 117. 
The High Sheriff of Greene: The True Story of Legendary Lawman L.L. Wyatt 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
119. 
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
by:
Jen Waite
3.52 avg rating — 14,742 ratings 119. 
Blood in the Soil: A True Tale of Racism, Sex, and Murder in the South
by:
Carole Townsend
3.55 avg rating — 137 ratings 
122. 
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
by:
Susannah Cahalan
3.64 avg rating — 12,204 ratings 122. 
Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
by:
Beate Klarsfeld
4.09 avg rating — 219 ratings 124. 
Murder of the Banker's Daughter: The Killing of Marion Parker
by:
R. Barri Flowers
3.38 avg rating — 78 ratings 124. 
126. 
Masters of True Crime: Chilling Stories of Murder and the Macabre
by:
R. Barri Flowers
3.42 avg rating — 279 ratings 127. 
Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.15 avg rating — 247 ratings 127. 
Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
by:
Kate Fazzini
3.18 avg rating — 426 ratings 129. 
Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace
by:
Masha Gessen
4.13 avg rating — 676 ratings 129. 
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal 4.16 avg rating — 428 ratings
131. 
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank 3.91 avg rating — 226 ratings
133. 
Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer
by:
Kamala Harris
3.75 avg rating — 323 ratings 
135. 
Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
by:
Claire Harman
3.20 avg rating — 1,447 ratings 137. 
Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez
by:
Brooke Bessesen
4.28 avg rating — 165 ratings 
139. 
The Spider and the Fly: A Writer, a Murderer and a Story of Obsession
by:
Claudia Rowe
3.21 avg rating — 2,976 ratings 139. 
Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption 3.94 avg rating — 66 ratings
141. 
The Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead
by:
Donna M. Jackson
3.74 avg rating — 86 ratings 
143. 
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
by:
Elizabeth Hinton
4.17 avg rating — 781 ratings 145. 
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity 3.89 avg rating — 9,086 ratings
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147. 
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by:
Casey Cep
3.77 avg rating — 25,719 ratings 147. 
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
149. 
A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption 3.84 avg rating — 268 ratings
152. 
The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror 3.62 avg rating — 117 ratings
153. 
The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
by:
Siân Rees
3.62 avg rating — 1,385 ratings 
154. 
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder 3.74 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
156. 
Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse And The Making Of A Modern American Witch Hunt
by:
Debbie Nathan
3.90 avg rating — 283 ratings 158. 
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Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers
by:
Carol Anne Davis
3.58 avg rating — 408 ratings 160. 
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
by:
Helen Prejean
4.21 avg rating — 752 ratings 162. 
Architects of Death: The Family Who Engineered the Death Camps
by:
Karen Bartlett
3.82 avg rating — 176 ratings 
166. 
The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York 3.72 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
167. 
A Rose for Her Grave and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #1)
by:
Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 7,082 ratings 167. 
The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
by:
Sarah Deer
4.46 avg rating — 356 ratings 169. 
If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
by:
Janine Latus
3.51 avg rating — 7,828 ratings 169. 
Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis
by:
Paula Lavigne
4.13 avg rating — 301 ratings 171. 
Jane Doe January: My Twenty-Year Search for Truth and Justice
by:
Emily Winslow
3.36 avg rating — 338 ratings 171. 
Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape
by:
Jessica Luther
4.26 avg rating — 373 ratings 173. 
Standing Strong: An Unlikely Sisterhood and the Court Case That Made History
by:
Diane Reeve
4.33 avg rating — 94 ratings 
176. 
Bitter Remains: A Custody Battle, A Gruesome Crime, and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price
by:
Diane Fanning
3.69 avg rating — 828 ratings 
178. 
Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
by:
Mab Segrest
3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings 
179. 
Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Zoe A. Colley
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 181. 
Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
by:
Beverly Lowry
3.41 avg rating — 2,639 ratings 181. 
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
by:
Angela J. Davis
4.21 avg rating — 945 ratings 183. 
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape 3.77 avg rating — 40,865 ratings
183. 
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy 4.45 avg rating — 4,804 ratings
185. 
Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
by:
Mary Ella Engel
3.48 avg rating — 33 ratings 187. 
From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
by:
Heidi Blake
4.29 avg rating — 2,647 ratings 
188. 
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
by:
Annie Jacobsen
4.32 avg rating — 6,439 ratings 190. 
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192. 
Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs
by:
Alexandra Chasin
4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings 
194. 
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row 4.23 avg rating — 5,572 ratings
196. 
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI 3.66 avg rating — 10,275 ratings
197. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,276 ratings 198. 
Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
by:
Vanessa Neumann
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings 
200. 
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
by:
Maryanne Vollers
4.29 avg rating — 290 ratings