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Knife Summary
Knife
Meditations After an Attempted Murder
by Salman Rushdie 2024 209 pages
3.98
27k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Sing Sing Files Summary
The Sing Sing Files
One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
by Dan Slepian 2024 224 pages
4.46
2k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Narconomics Summary
Narconomics
How to Run a Drug Cartel
by Tom Wainwright 2016 288 pages
4.14
11k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Crime
Gang Leader for a Day Summary
Gang Leader for a Day
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh 2008 332 pages
4.07
25k+ ratings
Sociology
Memoir
Crime
Fake Law Summary
Fake Law
The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
by The Secret Barrister 2020 372 pages
4.18
5k+ ratings
Law
Politics
Crime
Dawood's Mentor Summary
Dawood's Mentor
by S. Hussain Zaidi 2019 300 pages
4.00
275 ratings
Crime
True Crime
India
Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies Summary
Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies
The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, the Illuminati, Skull & Bones, Black Helicopters, the New World Order, and Many, Many More
by Arthur Goldwag 2009
3.33
500+ ratings
History
Religion
Cults
College Girl, Missing Summary
College Girl, Missing
The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
by Shawn Cohen 2024 272 pages
3.54
17k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
Mystery
Once Upon a Time in Russia Summary
Once Upon a Time in Russia
The Rise of the Oligarchs―A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
by Ben Mezrich 2015 288 pages
3.86
4k+ ratings
History
Russia
Politics
A Fever in the Heartland Summary
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
by Timothy Egan 2023 432 pages
4.35
49k+ ratings
History
True Crime
Book Club
The Sun Does Shine Summary
The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
by Anthony Ray Hinton 2018 272 pages
4.65
83k+ ratings
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Framed Summary
Framed
Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by John Grisham 2024 368 pages
4.10
26k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Crazy Love Summary
Crazy Love
by Leslie Morgan Steiner 2009 336 pages
3.85
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Best Evidence Summary
Best Evidence
by David S. Lifton 1980 920 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
History
Conspiracy Theories
Politics
Marching Powder Summary
Marching Powder
A True Story of a British Drug Smuggler In a Bolivian Jail
by Rusty Young 2003 401 pages
4.31
31k+ ratings
Travel
Biography
Crime
The Psychopath Whisperer Summary
The Psychopath Whisperer
The Science of Those Without Conscience
by Kent A. Kiehl 2014 304 pages
4.07
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
True Crime
The Phantom Prince Summary
The Phantom Prince
My Life with Ted Bundy
by Elizabeth Kendall 1981 183 pages
4.18
15k+ ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
What the Dead Know Summary
What the Dead Know
Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
by Barbara Butcher 2023 288 pages
4.17
8k+ ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
Tangled Up in Blue Summary
Tangled Up in Blue
Policing the Nation's Capital
by Rosa Brooks 2021 413 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
Social Justice
She Said Summary
She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by Jodi Kantor 2019 310 pages
4.34
44k+ ratings
Feminism
True Crime
Politics
The Art Thief Summary
The Art Thief
A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
by Michael Finkel 2023 224 pages
3.92
100k+ ratings
True Crime
Art
History
Proof of Conspiracy Summary
Proof of Conspiracy
How Trump's International Collusion Is Threatening American Democracy
by Seth Abramson 2019 592 pages
4.28
469 ratings
Politics
History
True Crime
Criminal (In)Justice Summary
Criminal (In)Justice
What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most
by Rafael A. Mangual 2022 256 pages
4.13
222 ratings
Politics
Sociology
Law
El Narco Summary
El Narco
Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
by Ioan Grillo 2011 336 pages
4.07
5k+ ratings
History
Crime
True Crime
Kingpin Summary
Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
by Kevin Poulsen 2011 288 pages
3.97
8k+ ratings
Biography
Technology
True Crime
Hollywood Babylon Summary
Hollywood Babylon
by Kenneth Anger 1959 305 pages
3.65
6k+ ratings
Film
History
Biography
Three Cups of Deceit Summary
Three Cups of Deceit
How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
by Jon Krakauer 2011 77 pages
3.72
11k+ ratings
Biography
History
Journalism
True Crime Addict Summary
True Crime Addict
How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
by James Renner 2016 304 pages
3.65
8k+ ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
Relentless Pursuit My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein Summary
Relentless Pursuit My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein
by Bradley J. Edwards 2020 400 pages
4.32
1k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
Law
Secrets in the Cellar Summary
Secrets in the Cellar
A True Story of the Austrian Incest Case that Shocked the World
by John Glatt 2009 256 pages
3.83
6k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
Abuse
A Mother's Reckoning Summary
A Mother's Reckoning
Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
by Sue Klebold 2016 305 pages
4.14
46k+ ratings
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
Extraordinary Circumstances Summary
Extraordinary Circumstances
The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
by Cynthia Cooper 2007 416 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Business
Accounting
Memoir
The Devil at His Elbow Summary
The Devil at His Elbow
Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
by Valerie Bauerlein 2024 480 pages
4.46
12k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Opus Summary
Opus
dark money, a secretive cult, and its mission to remake our world
by Gareth Gore 2024 546 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
History
Religion
Politics
Hope Summary
Hope
A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
by Amanda Berry 2015 321 pages
4.37
19k+ ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Biography
The Big Con Summary
The Big Con
The Story of the Confidence Man
by David W. Maurer 1940 315 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
History
Crime
True Crime
Exposure Summary
Exposure
Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
by Robert Bilott 2019 400 pages
4.49
2k+ ratings
Science
History
Environment
Unmasked Summary
Unmasked
My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
by Paul Holes 2022 288 pages
4.09
30k+ ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
The Dope Summary
The Dope
The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
by Benjamin T. Smith 2021 464 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
We Are Bellingcat Summary
We Are Bellingcat
An Intelligence Agency for the People
by Eliot Higgins 2021 273 pages
4.12
5k+ ratings
Politics
Journalism
History
The Art of the Con Summary
The Art of the Con
The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
by Anthony M. Amore 2015 264 pages
3.54
1k+ ratings
Art
True Crime
History
The Dark Side of the Mind Summary
The Dark Side of the Mind
True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
by Kerry Daynes 2019 250 pages
4.02
7k+ ratings
Psychology
True Crime
Crime
The Parrot's Perch Summary
The Parrot's Perch
A Memoir
by Karen Keilt 2019 290 pages
4.23
334 ratings
Memoir
Brazil
True Crime
The Art of the Con Summary
The Art of the Con
How to Think Like a Real Hustler and Avoid Being Scammed
by R. Paul Wilson 2014 368 pages
3.89
128 ratings
Psychology
Crime
Business
Empire of Pain Summary
Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe 2021 535 pages
4.54
100k+ ratings
History
Biography
True Crime
Tokyo Vice Summary
Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
by Jake Adelstein 2009 335 pages
3.90
17k+ ratings
Japan
Crime
True Crime
There Is No Ethan Summary
There Is No Ethan
How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
by Anna Akbari 2024 304 pages
3.57
8k+ ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
Forensics Summary
Forensics
What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
by Val McDermid 2014 310 pages
4.09
13k+ ratings
Science
True Crime
Crime
Case Closed Summary
Case Closed
Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
by Gerald Posner 1993 640 pages
4.05
2k+ ratings
History
True Crime
Politics
Tokyo Noir Summary
Tokyo Noir
In and Out of Japan's Underworld
by Jake Adelstein 2024 320 pages
3.90
500+ ratings
Japan
True Crime
Crime
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