17 must-read nonfiction books like I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting by N. Leigh Hunt

Cover of I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting by N. Leigh Hunt

I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting

By: N. Leigh Hunt

3.61

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, m…

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Cover of A Rose for Her Grave and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #1) by Ann Rule

1. A Rose for Her Grave and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #1)

By: Ann Rule

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ann Rule's Crime Files books have delivered the very best in true crime reading since A Rose for He… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca  Morris

2. If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children

By: Gregg Olsen , Rebecca Morris

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

In If I Can't Have You, bestselling author Gregg Olsen and co-author Rebecca Morris investigate one… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Written in Blood by Diane Fanning

3. Written in Blood

By: Diane Fanning

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid rea… read more

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  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

4. Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese

By: Daleen Berry , Geoffrey C. Fuller

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

In Pretty Little Killers, journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller expand upon thei… read more

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5. Everything She Ever Wanted

By: Ann Rule

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

WAS SHE A SWEET SOUTHERN CHARMER? OR A COLD-BLOODED KILLER? For their wedding portrait, petite Pat … read more

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6. Murder in Pleasanton: Tina Faelz and the Search for Justice

By: Josh Suchon , None

3.84

Format: 32 pages,

In April 1984, Foothill High freshman Tina Faelz took a shortcut on her walk home. About an hour la… read more

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Cover of Too Young to Kill by M. William Phelps

7. Too Young to Kill

By: M. William Phelps

4.03

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

Killing Her Wasn't Enough… Sixteen-year-old Adrianne Reynolds couldn't unravel the twisted tangl… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Murder of Kelsey Berreth: A Shocking True Crime Story by Rod Kackley

8. The Murder of Kelsey Berreth: A Shocking True Crime Story

By: Rod Kackley

3.79

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

A successful young mother, Kelsey Berreth, vanishes on Thanksgiving Day 2018. The FBI is afraid the… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of An Almost Perfect Murder by Gary C. King

9. An Almost Perfect Murder

By: Gary C. King

3.59

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

A critical care nurse marries his patient’s widow only to later poison her in this true crime story… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder by Steven B. Epstein

10. Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder

By: Steven B. Epstein

4.18

Format: 608 pages, Kindle Edition

At just 41 years of age, Florida State law professor Dan Markel was among the most well-known and a… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World by Gregg Olsen

11. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

By: Gregg Olsen

3.55

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Good Wife: The Shocking Betrayal and Brutal Murder of a Godly Woman in Texas by Clint Richmond

12. The Good Wife: The Shocking Betrayal and Brutal Murder of a Godly Woman in Texas

By: Clint Richmond

3.95

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Roger and Penny Scaggs seemed a poster couple for family values. Evangelical Christians living in b… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder in the Family: Inside story of the Jersey murders by Jeremy Josephs

13. Murder in the Family: Inside story of the Jersey murders

By: Jeremy Josephs

3.93

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

As this true crime tale of murder shows, even the most successful families can hide terrible secret… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Into the Water: An Astonishing True Story of Abduction, Murder, and the Nice Guy Next Door (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Diane Fanning

14. Into the Water: An Astonishing True Story of Abduction, Murder, and the Nice Guy Next Door (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

By: Diane Fanning

3.85

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

To authorities she spilled the shocking details of a night of horror. It was the lead they'd been d… read more

Similar categories in Diane Fanning's Into the Water: An Astonishing True Story of Abduction, Murder, and the Nice Guy Next Door (St. Martin's True Crime Library) book and N. Leigh Hunt's I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Drop Dead Dangerous: The Lethal Attraction of Road Trip Killer, Paul John Knowles (True Crime) by Ryan Green

15. Drop Dead Dangerous: The Lethal Attraction of Road Trip Killer, Paul John Knowles (True Crime)

By: Ryan Green

3.88

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1974, the US East Coast was whipped up into a frenzy of fear. Locking their windows and doors, e… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting by N. Leigh Hunt

16. I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting

By: N. Leigh Hunt

3.61

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, m… read more

Similar categories in N. Leigh Hunt's I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting book and N. Leigh Hunt's I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting

  • biography
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Beautifully Cruel by M. William Phelps

17. Beautifully Cruel

By: M. William Phelps

4.11

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

The New York Times bestselling true crime author investigates a shocking case of a wife, mother, an… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Irreparable: Three Lives. Two Deaths. One Story that Has to be Told. by Mark Gerardot

18. Irreparable: Three Lives. Two Deaths. One Story that Has to be Told.

By: Mark Gerardot

4.03

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Mark and Jennair Gerardot had been married nearly 25 years when Mark met someone who changed everyt… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of And I Cried, Too: Confronting Evil in a Small Town, a memoir by Mike Hartnett

19. And I Cried, Too: Confronting Evil in a Small Town, a memoir

By: Mike Hartnett

4.24

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

Mike and his wife, Barbara, moved to Lincoln, Illinois, in 1972. The town of 17,000 was charming, f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Iowa Murders: A Shocking True Crime Story by Rod Kackley

20. The Iowa Murders: A Shocking True Crime Story

By: Rod Kackley

3.42

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

Someone you know or even love is the person who will kill you. Usually, that’s true.But that is not… read more

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  • true crime
Cover of Murder in the Neighborhood by Ellen J. Green

21. Murder in the Neighborhood

By: Ellen J. Green

4.28

Format: 352 pages, None

On September 6,1949, twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people in less than tw… read more

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  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

6 best-selling adult books like I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting by N. Leigh Hunt

Transform Your Habits

If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children

Gregg Olsen , Rebecca Morris

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Written in Blood

Diane Fanning

4.10

Transform Your Habits

An Almost Perfect Murder

Gary C. King

3.59

Transform Your Habits

American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

Gregg Olsen

3.55

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5 must-read adult books like Written in Blood by Diane Fanning

Transform Your Habits

Written in Blood

Diane Fanning

4.10

Transform Your Habits

We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

M. William Phelps

4.10

Transform Your Habits

An Almost Perfect Murder

Gary C. King

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case

Charles Bosworth Jr.

4.30

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