18 Nonfiction Reading Prompts - hosted by seaglass

True Crime
Read a true crime book. Recent history or times long past. 
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

10 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

J. Reuben Appelman

288 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Ronan Farrow

448 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics true crime dark informative tense medium-paced
A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley

A Very British Murder

Lucy Worsley

320 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history mystery true crime informative slow-paced
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley

6 hours, 12 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

752 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics true crime challenging informative slow-paced
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Amanda Montell

8 hours, 21 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology informative reflective medium-paced
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

If You Tell

Gregg Olsen

405 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement

Paula Yoo

384 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective slow-paced
One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway -- And Its Aftermath by Åsne Seierstad

One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway -- And Its Aftermath

Åsne Seierstad

560 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced