Best True Crime History Books (nonfiction)
101. 
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.12 avg rating — 57,730 ratings 102. 
And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
by:
Ann Rule
4.12 avg rating — 9,037 ratings 103. 
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
by:
Mitchell Zuckoff
4.30 avg rating — 24,825 ratings 
105. 
The Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case Of America's Unknown Child
by:
David Stout
3.96 avg rating — 325 ratings 106. 
Last Dance, Last Chance and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #8)
by:
Ann Rule
4.02 avg rating — 3,158 ratings 107. 
Top 10 American Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of Psychopaths
by:
Sybil Jensen
2.90 avg rating — 29 ratings 108. 
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
by:
Philip Dray
4.46 avg rating — 671 ratings 109. 
Waste Land: The Savage Odyssey Of Charles Starkweather And Caril Ann Fugate
by:
Michael Newton
3.65 avg rating — 131 ratings 
110. 
The Devil's Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre 3.72 avg rating — 535 ratings
112. 
The Ship of Seven Murders: A True Story of Madness & Murder
by:
Alannah Hopkin
3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings 
117. 
Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style
by:
Bill Neal
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings 
119. 
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
by:
Ian W. Shaw
3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings 122. 
Zero at the Bone: The Playboy, the Prostitute, and the Murder of Bobby Greenlease
by:
John Heidenry
3.40 avg rating — 270 ratings 122. 
The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr.
by:
Debra Komar
3.52 avg rating — 104 ratings 
127. 
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by:
Diane McWhorter
4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings 
129. 
Last Chance for Justice: How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers
by:
T.K. Thorne
4.26 avg rating — 47 ratings 130. 
A Clockwork Murder: The Night A Twisted Fantasy Became Demented Reality
by:
Steve Jackson
3.82 avg rating — 334 ratings 131. 
Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case (Fire Ant Books)
by:
Frank Sikora
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings 
134. 
The Crime of the Century: Richard Speck and the Murders That Shocked a Nation
by:
Dennis L. Breo
3.99 avg rating — 1,643 ratings 134. 
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by:
Casey Cep
3.77 avg rating — 25,710 ratings 134. 
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
by:
Hampton Sides
4.33 avg rating — 13,981 ratings 137. 
Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
by:
Susan Elmore
3.88 avg rating — 94 ratings 137. 
Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan
by:
Bill Shipp
3.90 avg rating — 71 ratings 139. 
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 140. 
Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
by:
Mike Dash
3.53 avg rating — 909 ratings 140. 
Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw
by:
Maryanne Vollers
3.96 avg rating — 264 ratings 
144. 
Villisca: The True Account of the Unsolved 1912 Mass Murder That Stunned the Nation
by:
Roy Marshall
3.46 avg rating — 126 ratings 145. 
Hanged for Murder: Irish State Executions
by:
Tim Carey
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 145. 
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
by:
Peter Stanley
3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings 145. 
The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing
by:
Jayna Davis
4.01 avg rating — 178 ratings 145. 
A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
by:
Laura Thompson
3.33 avg rating — 571 ratings 145. 
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
by:
Neal Bascomb
4.26 avg rating — 6,804 ratings 150. 
Cemetery John: The Undiscovered Mastermind of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
by:
Robert Zorn
3.79 avg rating — 454 ratings 
152. 
When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
by:
Brian Hicks
3.91 avg rating — 314 ratings 153. 
JFK: From Parkland to Bethesda: The Ultimate Kennedy Assassination Compendium
by:
Vincent Palamara
3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings 154. 
155. 
The Kennedy Assassination--24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President
by:
Steven M. Gillon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 377 ratings 156. 
The Veiled Woman of Achill: Island Outrage & A Playboy Drama
by:
Patricia Byrne
3.44 avg rating — 27 ratings 
156. 
Assassination of a Saint: The Plot to Murder Óscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice
by:
Matt Eisenbrandt
4.07 avg rating — 54 ratings 159. 
The Devil's Tickets: A Vengeful Wife, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age 3.33 avg rating — 434 ratings
159. 
Lawyer Games: After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by:
Dep Kirkland
3.57 avg rating — 112 ratings 
161. 
The Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
by:
Teresa Rodríguez
3.84 avg rating — 1,258 ratings 163. 
Nothing is Strange with You: The Life and Crimes of Gordon Stewart Northcott 3.53 avg rating — 244 ratings
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165. 
Indiana Gothic: A Story of Adultery and Murder in an American Family
by:
Pope Brock
3.74 avg rating — 193 ratings 165. 
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
by:
Peter Vronsky
3.83 avg rating — 2,028 ratings 167. 
The Ten Million Dollar Getaway: The Inside Story of the Lufthansa Heist
by:
Doug Feiden
3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings 168. 
Count Girolamo Lucchini: The Life, Escapades and Trial of a Legendary 18th-Century Criminal
by:
Patrizio Patrizi
3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings 
169. 
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
by:
Laura Wexler
3.99 avg rating — 369 ratings 
172. 
Hooligans, Harlots, and Hangmen: Crime and Punishment in Victorian Britain
by:
David Taylor
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 172. 
The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town
by:
Anthony S. Pitch
3.59 avg rating — 138 ratings 174. 
Secret Witness: The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan 3.96 avg rating — 54 ratings
174. 
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
by:
Eric Jager
3.97 avg rating — 6,849 ratings 176. 
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
177. 
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
by:
Jeffrey Toobin
3.87 avg rating — 12,108 ratings 178. 
Alone among the Living: A Memoir of the Floyd Hoard Murder
by:
G. Richard Hoard
4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings 179. 
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.48 avg rating — 6,558 ratings 180. 
Deal with the Devil: The FBI's Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer
by:
Peter Lance
3.64 avg rating — 309 ratings 
180. 
The New York Ripper: The True Story of Serial Killer Richard Cottingham
by:
Peter Vronsky
3.23 avg rating — 66 ratings 180. 
Chappaquiddick: Power, Privilege, and the Ted Kennedy Cover-Up
by:
Leo Damore
3.65 avg rating — 776 ratings 
180. 
180. 
South Africa's High Treason Club: The White Separatist Boeremag Conspirators on Trial
by:
Karin Mitchell
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
180. 
The Life and Times of Frank Balistrieri: The Last, Most Powerful Godfather of Milwaukee
by:
Wayne Clingman
3.11 avg rating — 85 ratings 180. 
The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty
by:
Philip Jett
3.73 avg rating — 451 ratings 180. 
Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and A 15-Year Search for Truth
by:
Scott James
4.25 avg rating — 845 ratings 
180. 
Second City Sinners: True Crime from Historic Chicago’s Deadly Streets
by:
Jon Seidel
3.74 avg rating — 120 ratings 180. 
Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
by:
Bill O'Reilly
4.25 avg rating — 13,865 ratings 
180. 
A Life on the Line: My Unexpected Career with the Canada Border Services Agency
by:
Grant Patterson
4.24 avg rating — 46 ratings 
180. 
Mission Omission: Exposing Invisible Lies and the Ace up Evil's Sleeve
by:
Jeff Seeley
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 180. 
The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals:
by:
Mitzi Szereto
3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings 180. 
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
by:
Gregg Olsen
3.98 avg rating — 336,696 ratings 