23 Best True Crime Books
Goal: Find the best True Crime books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best true crime books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
23 Best True Crime Books
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Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
Also recommended by:
The Stranger Beside Me
by Ann Rule
Helter Skelter
The True Story of the Manson Murders
by Vincent Bugliosi
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
by Michelle McNamara
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
My Dark Places
by James Ellroy
Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
Bad Blood
Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by John Carreyrou
Also recommended by:
Bill Gates, Bill Gurley, Andrew Wilkinson, Michael Mauboussin
Black Edge
Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
by Sheelah Kolhatkar
Also recommended by:
The Journalist And The Murderer
by Janet Malcolm
Also recommended by:
The Devil in the White City
A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America
by Erik Larson
Also recommended by:
American Fire
Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by Monica Hesse
American Predator
The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
by Maureen Callahan
Devil's Knot
The True Story of the West Memphis Three
by Mara Leveritt
Lost Girls
An Unsolved American Mystery
by Robert Kolker
Mindhunter
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
by John E. Douglas
Party Monster
A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
by James St. James
Shot in the Heart
by Mikal Gilmore
The Blood of Emmett Till
by Timothy B. Tyson
The Fact of a Body
A Murder and a Memoir
by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
The Feather Thief
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
by Kirk Wallace Johnson
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by Kate Summerscale
Sources
- 1
Books to Read If You Love True Crime | Penguin Random House
penguinrandomhouse.com
- 2
25 Best True Crime Books of All Time - Nonfiction Crime Books
goodhousekeeping.com
- 3
The 16 Best True Crime Books Of All Time | Time
time.com
- 4
26 Best True Crime Books of All Time - Top Nonfiction Crime Books
esquire.com
- 5
50 essential true crime books
abebooks.com
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