18 must-read true crime books like A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings by William H. Reid

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A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings

By: William H. Reid

3.89

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man …

If you liked the true crime plot in A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings by William H. Reid , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

By: Peter Langman

3.83

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings are a ne… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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2. Newtown: An American Tragedy

By: Matthew Lysiak

3.77

Format: 341 pages, ebook

A journalist for The Daily News (New York) offers a "meticulous account of the Newtown massacre and… read more

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  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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3. Too Pretty To Live: The Catfishing Murders of East Tennessee

By: Dennis Brooks

4.48

Format: 448 pages,

read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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4. Blood in the Snow: The True Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad, his High-Powered Wife, and the Jealousy that Drove him to Murder

By: Tom Henderson

3.64

Format: 24 pages,

Washington Township, Michigan: Valentine's Day, 2007. Stephen Grant filed a missing person's report… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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5. Columbine

By: Dave Cullen

4.29

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

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6. Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates

By: Suzanne O'Malley

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a June morning in a Houston suburb, a 911 dispatcher questioned the caller on the other end of t… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Search for the Green River Killer

By: Carlton Smith , Tomás Guillén

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The true story of America's most notorious serial killer case ever. read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

8. Shattered

By: Kathryn Casey

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

"Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today." --Ann Rule With true crime classics li… read more

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9. Death Sentence: The Inside Story of the John List Murders

By: Joe Sharkey

3.66

Format: None pages,

The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion--and eluded a natio… read more

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10. A Killer in the Family

By: Peter Ross Range

4.25

Format: None pages,

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11. Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and A 15-Year Search for Truth

By: Scott James

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In only 90 seconds, a fire in the Station nightclub killed 100 people and injured hundreds more. It… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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12. Parkland: Birth of a Movement

By: Dave Cullen

3.98

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordin… read more

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  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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13. Sandy Hook

By: Elizabeth Williamson

4.29

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more

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  • american history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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14. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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15. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

By: Jeff Guinn

4.16

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"

-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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16. In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators

By: Jeffrey L. Rinek

4.16

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

"The voice that narrates In the Name of the An F.B.I. Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's W… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings by William H. Reid

17. A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings

By: William H. Reid

3.89

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man … read more

Similar categories in William H. Reid's A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings book and William H. Reid's A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings

  • american history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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18. The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue

By: John Glatt

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Tur… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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19. To the Bridge

By: Nancy Rommelmann

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother … read more

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  • true crime
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Aurora: The Psychiatrist Who Treated the Movie Theater Killer Tells Her Story

By: Lynne Fenton

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A compelling look at violence and trauma from the psychiatrist who treated mass shooter James Holme… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community by Justin Ling

21. Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community

By: Justin Ling

4.23

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

18 best-selling audiobook books like A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings by William H. Reid

Transform Your Habits

Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

Peter Langman

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Newtown: An American Tragedy

Matthew Lysiak

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Too Pretty To Live: The Catfishing Murders of East Tennessee

Dennis Brooks

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Blood in the Snow: The True Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad, his High-Powered Wife, and the Jealousy that Drove him to Murder

Tom Henderson

3.64

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19 must-read audiobook books like Sandy Hook by Elizabeth Williamson

Transform Your Habits

Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

Peter Langman

3.83

Transform Your Habits

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Sue Klebold

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Newtown: An American Tragedy

Matthew Lysiak

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Columbine

Dave Cullen

4.29

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