True Crime Book Club 2025 Reading List
1.
Which books should we read in 2025? Choose 12 options!
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
, by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Fatal Vision
, by Joe McGinniss
My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir
, by James Ellroy
Hell's Half-acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
, by Susan Jonusas
The Devil in the White City
, by Erik Larson
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
, by Maureen Callahan
Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
, by Jillian Lauren
The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers
, by Pete Earley
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
, by Casey Cep
H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
, by Adam Selzer
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
, by Skip Hollandsworth
Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
, by Mandy Matney
In Cold Blood
, by Truman Capote
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
, by Gregg Olsen
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
, by David Grann
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
, by Wes Moore
Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
, by Isha Sesay
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
, by Deborah Blum
The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath
, by Philip Carlo
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
, by Philip Carlo
The Stranger Beside Me
, by Ann Rule
And the Sea Will Tell
, by Vincent Bugliosi and Bruce Henderson
No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine
, by Rob Merritt
Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris
, by Steven Levingston
The Monster of Florence
, by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
, by John Carreyrou