The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
By: Sarah Weinman
3.42
Format: 8 pages, Audiobook
7 Hours and 26 Minutes Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels…
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1. Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
By: Tori Telfer
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are likely Jack th… read more
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- biography
- history
- true crime
- historical
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"They caused the greatest disappointment,"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"Distanciar-se do crime é natural, mas distancie-se demais e o crime se tornará ilusão."-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"Why did that one friend scoot her chair away from me when I told her I “empathized but didn’t sympathize"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"One otherwise-great book on the subject includes a line implying that the “cute girl behind the deli counter slicing our bread"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
2. American Murder Houses: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide
By: Steve Lehto
3.94
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred. Yea… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
3. The Hillside Stranglers
By: Darcy O'Brien
2.77
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
For weeks in the fall of 1977, as the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young wome… read more
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- history
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- mystery
- crime
4. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
By: Kate Summerscale
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
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5. Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
By: Mara Leveritt
3.79
Format: 368 pages,
In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when D… read more
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6. Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder
By: None
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportag… read more
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7. The House at Sugar Beach
By: Helene Cooper
3.71
Format: 244 pages,
Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of i… read more
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8. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
By: Maureen Callahan
4.09
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"I've got lots more stories to tell."-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
9. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family
By: Susan Jonusas
3.45
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more
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- history
- true crime
- historical
- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
10. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
By: Rick Emerson
3.96
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
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- books about books
- audiobook
11. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
By: Sarah Weinman
3.42
Format: 8 pages, Audiobook
7 Hours and 26 Minutes Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels… read more
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- history
- true crime
- historical
- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- books about books
- audiobook
12. Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't
By: Edward Humes
3.38
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
On an April night in 1989, three young children perished in a tragic Los Angeles house fire. Their … read more
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- true crime
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- nonfiction
- mystery
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13. The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer's Home
By: Richard Estep
3.42
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Fox Hollow Farm, the infamous Indiana property where Herb Baumeister allegedly murdered at least el… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
14. Being Lolita: A Memoir
By: Alisson Wood
4.20
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
AS FEATURED IN THE HULU DOCUMENTARY KEEP THIS BETWEEN USA dark relationship evolves between a high … read more
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- biography
- audiobook
"Yes, "Lolita" is beautiful. But yes, it's also terrible. We can hold both in our hands."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"I wonder about things like fate, how sometimes things are just chosen for you, how women are chosen to endure suffering."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"That moment in my body when the teacher put his hand on my knee to comfort me was the understanding of all of that--that in order to be attractive, irresistible, to be worthy of notice, was to be bot…"-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"He leaned down to my foot next to him and put his lips on my pink, swollen ankle. I felt his breath on my skin. And it was like every locked in the halls of my high school swung open at once, metal k…"-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
15. The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
By: Simon Baatz
3.45
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder t… read more
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- history
- true crime
- historical
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
16. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
By: Rachel Monroe
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four arche… read more
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- true crime
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- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"Sometimes women’s attraction to true crime is dismissed as trashy and voyeuristic (because women are vapid!). Sometimes it is unquestioningly celebrated as feminist (because if women like something, …"-Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
17. The Hunt: The True Story of Alaska's Most Notorious Serial Killer, Robert Hansen (True Crime)
By: Ryan Green
4.05
Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1970s, a local baker harboured a dark secret that plunged Anchorage into a state of terror. … read more
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18. The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice
By: Vanessa Brown
3.63
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Fifty years ago, a serial killer prowled the quiet city of London, Ontario, marking it as his hunti… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
19. The Shoemaker's Magician (Chicago Saga, #2)
By: Cynthia Pelayo
3.58
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fabled lost movie. An increasing body count. How much do you risk for art? Paloma has been watch… read more
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- crime
- audiobook
20. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable
By: Sarah Gerard
3.44
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more
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- true crime
- adult
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21. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
By: Michael Waters
4.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
