True Crime
101. 
Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
by:
Erin Arvedlund
3.46 avg rating — 664 ratings 
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Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
by:
Harold Schechter
3.82 avg rating — 1,442 ratings 104. 
The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Thief
by:
Myles J. Connor
3.48 avg rating — 668 ratings 105. 
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A Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #3)
by:
Ann Rule
4.08 avg rating — 5,244 ratings 106. 
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
by:
Bryan Burrough
3.98 avg rating — 6,026 ratings 
109. 
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
by:
Stevie Cameron
4.13 avg rating — 2,860 ratings 110. 
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI 4.06 avg rating — 12,542 ratings
113. 
Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
by:
Vincent Bugliosi
3.88 avg rating — 2,678 ratings 114. 
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
by:
Charles Graeber
3.86 avg rating — 26,996 ratings 115. 
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Sweeney Todd: The Real Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
by:
Peter Haining
3.28 avg rating — 277 ratings 119. 
Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory
by:
Lawrence Wright
3.64 avg rating — 2,526 ratings 
123. 
She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall
by:
Misty Bernall
3.91 avg rating — 15,204 ratings 124. 
I: The Creation of a Serial Killer: The Creation of a Serial Killer
by:
Jack Olsen
3.92 avg rating — 2,693 ratings 
126. 
The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution & Chose Our President
by:
Vincent Bugliosi
3.98 avg rating — 294 ratings 127. 
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 128. 
A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders
by:
Gary M. Lavergne
4.07 avg rating — 519 ratings 
130. 
Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Robbery): My Education at Con College 4.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
133. 
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
by:
Val McDermid
4.10 avg rating — 12,182 ratings 134. 
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
by:
Tim Reiterman
4.32 avg rating — 2,616 ratings 135. 
Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers
by:
Scott A. Bonn
3.25 avg rating — 708 ratings 
139. 
Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers: The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
by:
Emlyn Williams
3.81 avg rating — 757 ratings 140. 
Whatever Mother Says...: A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder
by:
Wensley Clarkson
3.86 avg rating — 2,809 ratings 140. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,512 ratings 
142. 
Shadow Play: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
by:
William Klaber
4.02 avg rating — 120 ratings 142. 
Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
by:
Charles Bowden
3.71 avg rating — 1,497 ratings 145. 
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone 3.89 avg rating — 193 ratings
147. 
The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York 3.72 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
149. 
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 
153. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 154. 
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Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
by:
Gitta Sereny
3.88 avg rating — 1,720 ratings 156. 
Top 10 American Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of Psychopaths
by:
Sybil Jensen
2.90 avg rating — 29 ratings 157. 
From Cradle to Grave: The Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's Nine Children
by:
Joyce Egginton
3.95 avg rating — 1,635 ratings 158. 
Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets
by:
Gregg Olsen
3.65 avg rating — 5,541 ratings 159. 
Master Detective: The Life and Crimes of Ellis Parker, America's Real Life Sherlock Holmes
by:
John Reisinger
3.40 avg rating — 101 ratings 159. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 426,085 ratings 161. 
162. 
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 163. 
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
by:
Ronan Farrow
4.40 avg rating — 101,066 ratings 
164. 
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
by:
Billy Jensen
4.08 avg rating — 16,698 ratings 164. 
Never Enough: The Carl Katz Story - A Man Hunted by the Nazis Long After the Fall of the Third Reich
by:
Elise Garibaldi
4.31 avg rating — 35 ratings 169. 
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
by:
Julia Scheeres
4.01 avg rating — 5,116 ratings 
169. 
At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice 4.15 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
172. 
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
by:
Andrea Lee Smith
4.33 avg rating — 1,362 ratings 172. 
Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind
by:
Roy Hazelwood
4.05 avg rating — 2,869 ratings 172. 
Killer Triggers: Murder Comes Down to Sex, Drugs, or Money
by:
Joe Kenda
4.44 avg rating — 2,661 ratings 
176. 
Midnight in Peking: The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China
by:
Paul French
3.86 avg rating — 7,293 ratings 176. 
Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer
by:
Harold Schechter
3.91 avg rating — 603 ratings 
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by:
Bill Browder
4.44 avg rating — 104,293 ratings 
185. 
The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family
by:
John Glatt
3.78 avg rating — 3,446 ratings 187. 
Fiend: The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer
by:
Harold Schechter
3.79 avg rating — 1,426 ratings 188. 
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by:
Sam Quinones
4.23 avg rating — 31,641 ratings 189. 
Mad Dog: The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C Company'
by:
David Lister
3.59 avg rating — 165 ratings 189. 
Die For Me: The Terrifying Story of Charles Ng/Leonard Lake Torture Murders
by:
Don Lasseter
3.73 avg rating — 1,088 ratings 
191. 
I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime
by:
Joe Kenda
4.43 avg rating — 5,382 ratings 
193. 
Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders
by:
Dick Lehr
3.86 avg rating — 1,187 ratings 193. 
The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing
by:
Dan Morse
4.08 avg rating — 2,239 ratings 
196. 
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
by:
Charles Brandt
4.12 avg rating — 18,113 ratings 
199. 