True Crime

True crime is a non-fiction literary genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people. The crimes most commonly include murder, but true crime works have also touched on other legal cases. Still others revisit historic crimes (or alleged crimes) and propose solutions, such as books examining political assassinations, well-known unsolved murders, or the deaths of celebrities.

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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling
Lincoln's Ghost: Houdini's War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency
The Grave Robber: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History and the Bureau’s Quest to Set Things Right
The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
Spider to the Fly
No Ordinary Bird: Drug Smuggling, a Plane Crash, and a Daughter's Quest for the Truth
Not the Perfect Victim
Kryminalne portrety. Notatki psychologa policyjnego
  • Evil on the Roof of the World by William Elliott Hazelgrove
    Evil on the Roof of the World: A Cycling Trip that Ended in Terror

    Release date: Nov 13, 2025
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  • End of Days by Chris Jennings
    End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

    Release date: Feb 10, 2026
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  • Trackrs by Michael A.  Jacobs
    Trackrs: On the Cold Trail of a Serial Killer
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    Release date: Feb 20, 2022
    One killer. Six murders. Decades of pursuit. A prosecutor’s true story of justice, obsession, and the cost of finding the truth.

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  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
    The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
    Such Quiet Girls
    All Good People Here
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
    The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy
    Bright Young Women
    The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
    Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
    Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home
    Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
    No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre by Geoff PlunkettDeath Row at Truro by Geoff PlunkettBlood Stain by Peter LalorSnowtown by Jeremy PudneySaltwater by Cathy McLennan
    Australian True Crime
    135 books — 46 voters
    The Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleNight Stalker by Philip CarloGreen River, Running Red by Ann RuleThe Serial Killer Files by Harold SchechterMind Hunter by John E. Douglas
    Non-fiction books about Serial Killers
    149 books — 160 voters

    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
    Modern Science Nonfiction
    421 books — 296 voters
    Columbine by Dave CullenCruel Sacrifice by Aphrodite JonesThe Sleep of Reason by David James SmithThe Case of Mary Bell by Gitta SerenyUnder the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey
    Kids/Teens who kill
    81 books — 36 voters

    Detroit by Charlie LeDuffMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesDetroit by Dan GeorgakasDetroit City Is the Place to Be by Mark BinelliOnce In A Great City by David Maraniss
    Detroit (fiction and nonfiction)
    167 books — 70 voters
    Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer102 Minutes by Jim  DwyerThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFedeThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
    9/11 Related
    248 books — 221 voters

    I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
    In Cold Blood
    The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
    Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
    Columbine
    American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
    If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
    Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
    Green River, Running Red
    Small Sacrifices
    The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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    What are the consequences of illuminating human darkness for entertainment? When we do this, are we hindering the progress of those who focus on criminal justice reform? To me, the answer seems obvious. When lurid storytellers reach out to us a generation after we committed our crimes and seek to portray us as evil, killers, psychopaths, it mocks the idea at the center of criminal justice reform: Each of us is more than our crimes.
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