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True crime - reading suggestions

Historical True Crime (crimes committed before 1900)

  • Erik Larson – Devil in the White City (2003)
  • Kate Summerscale – The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008)

Modern True Crime (crimes committed after 1900)

  • Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry – Helter Skelter (1974)
  • Truman Capote – In Cold Blood (1966)
  • Dave Cullen – Columbine (2009)
  • Jon Krakauer – Under the Banner of Heaven (2003)
  • Michelle McNamara – I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (2018)
  • Norman Mailer – The Executioner’s Song (1979)
  • Ann Rule – The Stranger Beside Me (1980)
  • David Simon – Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991)

Contemporary True Crime (crimes committed after 2000)

  • Charles Graeber – The Good Nurse (2013)
  • Richard Lloyd Parry – The People Who Eat Darkness (2010)
true_crime_readers_advisory.txt · Last modified: 2020/10/28 23:13 by 127.0.0.1