True Crime Everyone Should Read

1.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,465 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 426,120 ratings
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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 — 109,023 ratings
4.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,925 ratings
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Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit 4.09 avg rating — 78,669 ratings
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
I'll Be Gone in the Dark 4.12 avg rating — 257,815 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 3.92 avg rating — 289,257 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice
At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice 4.15 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
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The Pale-Faced Lie
The Pale-Faced Lie 4.28 avg rating — 28,442 ratings
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Columbine
Columbine 4.29 avg rating — 99,755 ratings
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Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime 4.10 avg rating — 12,184 ratings
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Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist 4.32 avg rating — 46,097 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President 4.22 avg rating — 81,285 ratings
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Journey Into Darkness
Journey Into Darkness 4.02 avg rating — 7,352 ratings
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era 4.43 avg rating — 2,081 ratings
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Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People 4.32 avg rating — 2,616 ratings
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The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty
The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty 3.73 avg rating — 451 ratings
15.
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story 3.85 avg rating — 5,406 ratings
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The American Compendium of British Crimes
The American Compendium of British Crimes 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession & Revenge
The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession & Revenge 3.70 avg rating — 46 ratings
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De vermoedens van Mr. Whicher
De vermoedens van Mr. Whicher 3.51 avg rating — 24,681 ratings
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The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader 4.54 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite
Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite 3.75 avg rating — 2,730 ratings
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime
The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime 3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery 4.26 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Tears of Rage
Tears of Rage 4.26 avg rating — 4,173 ratings
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals:
The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals: 3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders 3.93 avg rating — 3,494 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
30.
The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes 3.66 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns
The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns 3.31 avg rating — 305 ratings
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People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman 3.79 avg rating — 22,909 ratings
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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship 3.52 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Devil's Knot
Devil's Knot 4.16 avg rating — 12,418 ratings
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers
The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers 3.41 avg rating — 548 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
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Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #12)
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #12)
by: Ann Rule
3.93 avg rating — 2,780 ratings
37.
A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan 3.33 avg rating — 571 ratings
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The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter 4.15 avg rating — 22,693 ratings
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The Winecoff Fire: The Untold Story of America's Deadliest Hotel Fire
The Winecoff Fire: The Untold Story of America's Deadliest Hotel Fire
by: Sam Heys
4.29 avg rating — 153 ratings
40.
Last Dance, Last Chance and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #8)
Last Dance, Last Chance and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #8)
by: Ann Rule
4.02 avg rating — 3,158 ratings
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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne 3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings
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And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank 4.07 avg rating — 474 ratings
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Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, a Mother's Sacrifice
Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, a Mother's Sacrifice
by: Ann Rule
4.10 avg rating — 10,753 ratings
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The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes
The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes 3.83 avg rating — 753 ratings
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My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue
My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue 4.21 avg rating — 374 ratings
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The Saga of the Bloody Benders
The Saga of the Bloody Benders 3.83 avg rating — 611 ratings
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And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
by: Ann Rule
4.12 avg rating — 9,038 ratings
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The Lindbergh Child
The Lindbergh Child 3.85 avg rating — 610 ratings
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Green River, Running Red
Green River, Running Red
by: Ann Rule
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19,720 ratings
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 3.98 avg rating — 6,026 ratings
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Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence 3.96 avg rating — 2,326 ratings
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The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon
The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon 4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Wicked Atlanta: The Sordid Side of Peach City History
Wicked Atlanta: The Sordid Side of Peach City History 3.68 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy 4.43 avg rating — 4,089 ratings
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia 3.12 avg rating — 6,342 ratings
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Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia 3.48 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City
Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City 3.27 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America
Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America 4.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires 4.14 avg rating — 6,318 ratings