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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End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises
The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini, and a True Story of Murder
The Deserving: What the Lives of the Condemned Reveal About American Justice
  • Fires in the Night by Matthew Wolfe
    Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage

    Release date: Jun 23, 2026
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    Giveaway dates: Mar 01 - Mar 31, 2026

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  • Breaking Midnight by Lynn  Walker
    Breaking Midnight: A True Story
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    Release date: Jan 14, 2023
    John Walker was a Miami undercover narcotics agent in the 1970s. Ten years later, he was in prison for smuggling 12,000 pounds of marijuana. In prison ...more
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  • The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
    The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
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    Release date: Jun 25, 2024
    One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser.

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  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
    A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides
    The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
    Such Quiet Girls
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
    The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    All Good People Here
    The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
    Penance
    The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
    Bright Young Women
    The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
    Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
    Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
    The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyThe Immigrant by Nery McMahonLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyOur Matrix Decoded by Ramzi NajjarThe Art of Pushing Forward by Ramzi Najjar
    That's So True
    28 books — 45 voters
    Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherMurder at the Come On Inn by P.M. BerkMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
    Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
    187 books — 134 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
    Paper Towns by John GreenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury1984 by George OrwellThe Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
    Missing persons/disappearance/absence
    204 books — 50 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
    153 books — 164 voters
    In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonColumbine by Dave Cullen
    Best True Crime
    1,387 books — 2,023 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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