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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,838 members
515 reviews
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
12,323 members
477 reviews
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
8,869 members
360 reviews
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
7,314 members
187 reviews
4.2
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by Vincent Bugliosi
5,751 members
100 reviews
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Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
by Hunter S. Thompson
5,057 members
45 reviews
3.9
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
4,904 members
162 reviews
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
by Kate Moore
4,245 members
232 reviews
4.1
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Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
by John Douglas
3,644 members
43 reviews
3.8
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The Amityville Horror: A True Story
by Jay Anson
3,113 members
97 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by Hallie Rubenhold
2,191 members
78 reviews
4.2
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Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
6,941 members
180 reviews
½ 3.7
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
6,247 members
153 reviews
½ 4.4
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematorium
by Caitlin Doughty
3,139 members
141 reviews
4.2
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by David Cordingly
3,111 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
by Mary Roach
2,940 members
186 reviews
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
by Legs McNeil
2,331 members
30 reviews
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
by Jon Ronson
2,299 members
93 reviews
½ 3.6
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
by Norman F. Cantor
2,179 members
57 reviews
½ 3.3
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
by Caitlin Doughty
2,028 members
72 reviews
4.2
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
by Amy Stewart
2,008 members
73 reviews
3.8
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The Children's Blizzard
by David Laskin
1,871 members
86 reviews
4
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Zodiac
by Robert Graysmith
1,723 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by Beth Macy
1,406 members
70 reviews
4.1
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Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood
by Julie Gregory
1,363 members
48 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
by Daniel James Brown
1,319 members
75 reviews
4.1
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
by Tom O'Neill
1,176 members
31 reviews
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The Mothman Prophecies
by John A. Keel
1,030 members
23 reviews
½ 3.3
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From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
by Marina Warner
987 members
8 reviews
4
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
by Donnie Eichar
957 members
50 reviews
3.8
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
by Bill Wasik
942 members
55 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
by Jennifer Toth
882 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
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Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
by Amy Stewart
861 members
48 reviews
3.8
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Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
by Jeff Guinn
860 members
37 reviews
4.1
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
by Judy Melinek
858 members
42 reviews
4.2
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Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
by Mara Leveritt
845 members
13 reviews
4.1
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Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground
by Michael Moynihan
819 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
by Bill Schutt
730 members
45 reviews
3.9
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The Family that Couldn't Sleep
by D.T. Max
729 members
30 reviews
3.9
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The Rasputin File
by Edvard Radzinsky
714 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
by Tori Telfer
689 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
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Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments
by Alex Boese
680 members
24 reviews
½ 3.5
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Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans
by Malachi Martin
633 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
by Cara Robertson
606 members
28 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Night Stalker
by Philip Carlo
604 members
7 reviews
3.8
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For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago
by Simon Baatz
580 members
17 reviews
3.8
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Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
by Harold Schechter
578 members
9 reviews
3.8
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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
by Harold Schechter
571 members
18 reviews
½ 3.6
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Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
by Peter Vronsky
552 members
2 reviews
4
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The Day after Roswell
by Philip Corso
532 members
12 reviews
3.1
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Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party
by George R. Stewart
523 members
10 reviews
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A Delusion Of Satan: The Full Story Of The Salem Witch Trials
by Frances Hill
515 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
by Jan Bondeson
457 members
6 reviews
3.8
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No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
by Marina Warner
434 members
2 reviews
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Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
by George Pendle
421 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer
by Jason Moss
419 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
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Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science
by Erika Engelhaupt
390 members
9 reviews
4.1
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The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
by Jon Billman
390 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
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Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui
372 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer
by Harold Schechter
367 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
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Butts: A Backstory
by Heather Radke
340 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
by Stephen Kinzer
335 members
7 reviews
3.9
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
by Frances Larson
335 members
10 reviews
3.8
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Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters
by Matt Kaplan
332 members
7 reviews
½ 3.3
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Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
by Tim Reiterman
325 members
10 reviews
½ 4.3
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My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King
by Reymundo Sanchez
289 members
11 reviews
4
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
by Michael Wallis
273 members
11 reviews
4
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The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness
by John Waller
264 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
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Savage Grace
by Natalie Robins
222 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
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House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying
by John Dean
213 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
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Happy Like Murderers
by Gordon Burn
209 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
by Sarah Clegg
204 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead
by Peter Manseau
199 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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Waco: David Koresh, The Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage
by Jeff Guinn
197 members
4 reviews
4
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Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned
by Brian Moynahan
197 members
2 reviews
3.8
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