Best True Crime
2. 
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by:
Vincent Bugliosi
4.06 avg rating — 152,005 ratings 3. 
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by:
Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 108,996 ratings 
6. 
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating — 257,756 ratings
9. 
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
by:
John E. Douglas
4.09 avg rating — 78,643 ratings 
14. 
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating — 220,427 ratings 
16. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 425,899 ratings 
20. 
Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez
by:
Philip Carlo
4.02 avg rating — 14,619 ratings 
22. 
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
by:
Mark Bowden
3.98 avg rating — 19,105 ratings 
24. 
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by:
John Grisham
3.86 avg rating — 82,834 ratings 
26. 
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by:
Mara Leveritt
4.16 avg rating — 12,416 ratings 
30. 
Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal
by:
Ann Rule
4.08 avg rating — 9,692 ratings 31. 
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
by:
Harold Schechter
3.92 avg rating — 9,197 ratings 
35. 
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
by:
Michelle Knight
4.18 avg rating — 30,088 ratings 36. 
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.51 avg rating — 24,676 ratings 
38. 
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 — 22,902 ratings
39. 
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI 4.06 avg rating — 12,539 ratings
40. 
I Know My First Name is Steven: The True Story of the Steven Stayner Abduction Case
by:
Mike Echols
4.16 avg rating — 6,115 ratings 
43. 
Catch Me If You Can: The Film and the Filmmakers (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook)
by:
Jeff Nathanson
4.05 avg rating — 1,220 ratings 44. 
The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy 4.14 avg rating — 5,024 ratings
47. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,511 ratings 48. 
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
by:
Peter Vronsky
4.13 avg rating — 5,912 ratings 
50. 
Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder
by:
Jerry Bledsoe
4.04 avg rating — 10,138 ratings 51. 
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
by:
James L. Swanson
4.16 avg rating — 34,158 ratings 52. 
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating — 215,172 ratings 53. 
And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
by:
Ann Rule
4.12 avg rating — 9,037 ratings 
56. 
Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer
by:
Harold Schechter
3.96 avg rating — 3,151 ratings 
58. 
The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
by:
Harold Schechter
4.08 avg rating — 4,684 ratings 59. 
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
by:
Maureen Callahan
4.08 avg rating — 45,970 ratings 
62. 
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
by:
Billy Jensen
4.08 avg rating — 16,694 ratings 
67. 
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.12 avg rating — 57,729 ratings 68. 
True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders
by:
Dina Di Mambro
3.51 avg rating — 426 ratings 69. 
For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice
by:
Sharon Rocha
4.31 avg rating — 4,948 ratings 
71. 
Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
by:
Harold Schechter
3.98 avg rating — 2,427 ratings 72. 
Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
by:
William Queen
4.16 avg rating — 5,537 ratings 73. 
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by:
Clifford Stoll
4.28 avg rating — 15,260 ratings 74. 
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by:
Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 120,599 ratings 75. 
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
by:
Philip Carlo
4.15 avg rating — 10,310 ratings 
77. 
Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer: The Death Row Interviews 3.80 avg rating — 4,724 ratings
78. 
The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town
by:
Ron Franscell
3.95 avg rating — 2,555 ratings 
86. 
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
by:
Gregg Olsen
3.68 avg rating — 9,950 ratings 87. 
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
by:
Douglas Starr
3.86 avg rating — 5,269 ratings 
92. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,339 ratings 
94. 
Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
by:
Peter Maas
3.85 avg rating — 3,968 ratings 
96. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,267 ratings 97. 
Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets
by:
Gregg Olsen
3.65 avg rating — 5,535 ratings 98. 
