Best True Crime History Books (nonfiction)
180. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,366 ratings 
180. 
An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
by:
Susan Wels
3.34 avg rating — 1,391 ratings 180. 
180. 
Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age
by:
Fred M. Kray
4.15 avg rating — 434 ratings 180. 
The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
by:
Annie Reed
3.80 avg rating — 293 ratings 180. 
Lethal Doses: The Story Behind "The Godfather Of Fentanyl"
by:
John Madinger
4.65 avg rating — 49 ratings 
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209. 
Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
by:
Beverly Lowry
3.41 avg rating — 2,639 ratings 
209. 
Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper
by:
Lucy Bland
4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings 
213. 
Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
by:
Gitta Sereny
3.88 avg rating — 1,719 ratings 213. 
Meet The Bosses: Vol. 1 From Capos to Godfathers
by:
Nataniele Rossi
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 213. 
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
by:
Holly Tucker
3.60 avg rating — 3,275 ratings 213. 
Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates
by:
Suzanne O'Malley
3.78 avg rating — 1,763 ratings 213. 
The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury
by:
Sinclair McKay
3.52 avg rating — 467 ratings 
213. 
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
by:
Neil Bradbury
4.12 avg rating — 8,908 ratings 213. 
Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France 3.56 avg rating — 41 ratings
222. 
Black River Road: An Unthinkable Crime, an Unlikely Suspect and the Question of Character
by:
Debra Komar
3.93 avg rating — 107 ratings 222. 
The Sins of Jack Saul: The True Story of Dublin Jack and the Cleveland Street Scandal
by:
Glenn Chandler
3.77 avg rating — 330 ratings 
222. 
The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
by:
Sarah Wise
3.71 avg rating — 795 ratings 222. 
Honest Answers about the Murder of President John F. Kennedy: A New Look at the JFK Assassination 4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings
222. 
Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F
by:
Joe Pappalardo
3.29 avg rating — 163 ratings 222. 
222. 
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
by:
Sarah Churchwell
3.63 avg rating — 2,229 ratings 230. 
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
by:
Julia Scheeres
4.01 avg rating — 5,116 ratings 230. 
The Great Crown Jewels Robbery of 1303: The Extraordinary Story of the First Big Bank Raid in History
by:
Paul Doherty
3.61 avg rating — 80 ratings 230. 
Murdering the President: Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield
by:
Fred Rosen
3.75 avg rating — 32 ratings 230. 
Satin Pumps: the Moonlit Murder that Mesmerized a Nation
by:
Steve Kosareff
3.57 avg rating — 87 ratings 230. 
Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders
by:
Dick Lehr
3.86 avg rating — 1,184 ratings 230. 
Texas Connection: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
by:
Craig I. Zirbel
3.68 avg rating — 85 ratings 230. 
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 230. 
The Damnation of John Donellan: A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England
by:
Elizabeth Cooke
3.45 avg rating — 93 ratings 238. 
London's Underworld: Three Centuries of Vice and Crime
by:
Fergus Linnane
3.65 avg rating — 60 ratings 
238. 
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness
by:
Eli Sanders
3.98 avg rating — 3,611 ratings 238. 
Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and Justice
by:
John Edward
4.26 avg rating — 81 ratings 238. 
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 — 4,106 ratings
243. 
True Crime Chronicles, Volume Two: Serial Killers, Outlaws, And Justice ... Real Crime Stories From The 1800s
by:
Mike Rothmiller
4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings 
243. 
Life Sentence: How My Father Defended Two Murderers and Lost Himself
by:
Amy Bell
3.91 avg rating — 75 ratings 243. 
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne 3.48 avg rating — 2,030 ratings
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247. 
Betrayal In Blue: The Shocking Memoir Of The Scandal That Rocked The NYPD
by:
Burl Barer
3.99 avg rating — 372 ratings 247. 
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice 3.57 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
247. 
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
by:
Judith Flanders
3.41 avg rating — 4,257 ratings 251. 
Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret
by:
Pamela Everett
3.83 avg rating — 1,678 ratings 251. 
The Politics of Murder: The Power and Ambition Behind "The Altar Boy Murder Case"
by:
Margo Nash
3.81 avg rating — 110 ratings 251. 
Psychological DNA: A Cold Case Analysis of Who Killed Robert F. Kennedy 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
251. 
Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
by:
Claire Harman
3.20 avg rating — 1,447 ratings 255. 
Railroaded: Framed for Murder, Fighting for Justice
by:
Samuel L. Sommer
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings 255. 
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
by:
Eric Jager
3.82 avg rating — 1,690 ratings 
259. 
259. 
THE GARDEN STATE PARKWAY MURDERS: A Cold Case Mystery
by:
Christian Barth
3.57 avg rating — 262 ratings 259. 
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 — 739,784 ratings 
262. 
264. 
Shark Arm: A Shark, A Tattooed Arm and Two Unsolved Murders
by:
Phillip Roope
3.68 avg rating — 122 ratings 264. 
264. 
Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England
by:
James Ruddick
3.66 avg rating — 1,757 ratings 
269. 
269. 
An Empire on Trial: Race, Murder, and Justice under British Rule, 1870-1935
by:
Martin J. Wiener
3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings 271. 
The CBS Murders: A True Account of Greed and Violence in New York's Diamond District
by:
Richard Hammer
3.81 avg rating — 1,156 ratings 271. 
Famous Crimes the World Forgot: Ten Vintage True Crime Stories Rescued from Obscurity 3.76 avg rating — 1,233 ratings
274. 
A Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium: Including: Jack the Ripper, The Beast of Chicago, Fatal Bullet
by:
Rick Geary
3.95 avg rating — 312 ratings 274. 
Held Captive: The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart
by:
Maggie Haberman
3.43 avg rating — 142 ratings 
277. 
Ted Bundy's Murderous Mysteries: The Many Victims Of America's Most Infamous Serial Killer 3.65 avg rating — 145 ratings
279. 
Who Killed Constable Cock?: A Victorian True Crime Murder Case (Victorian Supersleuth Investigates Book 2)
by:
Angela Buckley
4.39 avg rating — 31 ratings 279. 
Murder in the First-Class Carriage: The First Victorian Railway Killing
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.54 avg rating — 1,162 ratings 281. 
283. 
283. 
Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.54 avg rating — 1,162 ratings 285. 
Torso: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run: A True Story
by:
Steven Nickel
3.75 avg rating — 172 ratings 285. 
Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City
by:
Robert Booth
3.27 avg rating — 135 ratings 285. 
The Enigma of Ted Bundy: The Questions and Controversies Surrounding America’s Most Infamous Serial Killer 3.42 avg rating — 212 ratings
288. 
True Crime Chronicles, Volume One: Serial Killers, Outlaws, And Justice ... Real Crime Stories From The 1800s
by:
Mike Rothmiller
3.84 avg rating — 70 ratings 
289. 
A 'FAMILY' BUSINESS: The Life And Times Of Joey 'The Fixer' Silvestri 3.55 avg rating — 84 ratings
291. 
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption 3.59 avg rating — 2,953 ratings
291. 
Killing Women: The True Story of Serial Killer Don Miller's Reign of Terror
by:
Rod Sadler
3.67 avg rating — 434 ratings 293. 
Secrets Never Lie: The Death of Sara Tokars--A Southern Tragedy of Money, Murder, and Innocence Betrayed
by:
R.R. McDonald
3.20 avg rating — 44 ratings 293. 
The Rise and Fall of a 'Casino' Mobster: The Tony Spilotro Story Through a Hitman's Eyes
by:
Frank Cullottta
3.91 avg rating — 560 ratings 
295. 
GABACHO: Drugs Landed Me In Mexican Prison, Theatre Saved Me
by:
Richard Jewkes
3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings 297. 
THE SHAWCROSS LETTERS: My Journey Into The Mind Of Evil
by:
John Paul Fay
3.16 avg rating — 80 ratings 298. 
The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York
by:
Stephen Duncombe
3.64 avg rating — 78 ratings 
299. 
Rough Trade: A Shocking True Story of Prostitution, Murder and Redemption
by:
Steve Jackson
4.10 avg rating — 352 ratings