52 Book Club 2022: Summer Genre Challenge - True Crime
1. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 425,995 ratings 2. 
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating — 257,777 ratings
4. 
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by:
Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,006 ratings 5. 
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 6. 
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by:
Erik Larson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,806 ratings 
9. 
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating — 220,446 ratings 10. 
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
by:
Bill James
3.47 avg rating — 9,169 ratings 
12. 
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
by:
Elon Green
3.84 avg rating — 10,127 ratings 13. 
Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
by:
James St. James
4.07 avg rating — 9,523 ratings 14. 
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.51 avg rating — 24,678 ratings 15. 
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 3.79 avg rating — 22,906 ratings
17. 
Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice
by:
Ellen McGarrahan
3.57 avg rating — 1,179 ratings 18. 
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia 3.12 avg rating — 6,341 ratings
19. 
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
by:
Kathryn Miles
3.92 avg rating — 7,106 ratings 20. 
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
by:
Maureen Callahan
4.08 avg rating — 45,980 ratings 21. 
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
by:
Douglas Starr
3.86 avg rating — 5,270 ratings 22. 
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by:
Vincent Bugliosi
4.06 avg rating — 152,014 ratings 23. 
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 24. 
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.12 avg rating — 57,733 ratings 25. 
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by:
Mara Leveritt
4.16 avg rating — 12,417 ratings 26. 
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
by:
Neil Bradbury
4.12 avg rating — 8,908 ratings 
29. 
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
by:
Sarah Weinman
3.55 avg rating — 1,958 ratings 30. 
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
by:
Becky Cooper
3.73 avg rating — 12,817 ratings 31. 
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by:
Casey Cep
3.77 avg rating — 25,715 ratings 32. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,378 ratings 32. 
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
by:
Ronan Farrow
4.40 avg rating — 101,060 ratings 34. 
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
by:
Rachel Monroe
3.70 avg rating — 6,048 ratings 35. 
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by:
Monica Hesse
3.79 avg rating — 16,446 ratings 
40. 
America's Dumbest Criminals: Based on True Stories from Law Enforcement Officials Across the Country
by:
Daniel R. Butler
3.58 avg rating — 299 ratings 
43. 
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
by:
Steve Oney
4.07 avg rating — 474 ratings 
44. 
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
46. 
Angels of Death: Murderous Medics, Nefarious Nurses and Killer Carers
by:
Al Cimino
3.03 avg rating — 109 ratings 
56. 
Inside 10 Rillington Place: John Christie and Me, The Untold Truth
by:
Peter Thorley
3.75 avg rating — 204 ratings 58. 
Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case
by:
Caitlin Rother
3.67 avg rating — 1,871 ratings 58. 
Lady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn: A Scandalous Story of Marriage and Betrayal in Restoration England
by:
N.A.Pickford
3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings 60. 
The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession & Revenge
by:
Mitzi Szereto
3.70 avg rating — 46 ratings 60. 
The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France
by:
Eric Jager
3.97 avg rating — 6,850 ratings 
64. 
Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #16)
by:
Ann Rule
3.94 avg rating — 3,128 ratings 64. 
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 66. 
The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
by:
Alex Tresniowski
3.93 avg rating — 682 ratings 66. 
Crimson Petticoats: The Betrayal, Brutality and Bloodshed behind the French Maid Massacres
by:
Ryan Green
4.05 avg rating — 327 ratings 68. 
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
by:
Jay Atkinson
3.75 avg rating — 422 ratings 69. 
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM
by:
Sarah Berman
3.91 avg rating — 5,249 ratings 69. 
The King's Jews: Money, Massacre and Exodus in Medieval England
by:
Robin R. Mundill
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings 71. 
Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
by:
Harold Schechter
3.76 avg rating — 3,456 ratings 72. 
74. 
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
by:
Tori Telfer
3.71 avg rating — 4,067 ratings 74. 
Beast: Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of the Gévaudan
by:
S.R. Schwalb
3.37 avg rating — 245 ratings 
78. 
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating — 149,064 ratings
78. 
Behind the Murder Curtain: Special Agent Bruce Sackman Hunts Doctors and Nurses Who Kill Our Veterans
by:
Bruce Sackman
3.78 avg rating — 96 ratings 
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,229 ratings 86. 
The Unusual Suspect: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Day Outlaw
by:
Ben Machell
3.52 avg rating — 551 ratings 86. 
Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
by:
Harold Schechter
3.75 avg rating — 1,440 ratings 88. 
When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times
by:
Leah Sottile
3.78 avg rating — 2,202 ratings 88. 
Murder in the First-Class Carriage: The First Victorian Railway Killing
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.54 avg rating — 1,162 ratings 90. 
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
by:
Sam Kean
4.01 avg rating — 9,591 ratings 90. 
Who Killed Little Johnny Gill?: A Victorian True Crime Murder Mystery
by:
Kathryn McMaster
4.02 avg rating — 520 ratings 
93. 
The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer 2.89 avg rating — 1,637 ratings
95. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 
97. 
IT'S ME, Edward Wayne Edwards, the Serial Killer You Never Heard Of
by:
John A. Cameron
3.16 avg rating — 278 ratings 
99. 
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