Recs if you like Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York...

True crime books that explain why you should choose the bear

A list of non-fiction books or books based on reality where humans are at their worst.... True crime style

true crime and true crime adjacent.

To find horror it seems we need look no further than our fellow human beings. All these true crime books have themes ranging from the detriment of patriarchal norms in institutions and family dynamics, systemic racism, corporate and personal greed, homophobia, failures in the justice system and/or stigma of mental health and substance abuse treatment.

When you hate joking but absolutely desire detail. Where every witness/ victim’s living family is long gone/ approved of the story attention themselves. When you’ve run out of cases in the 1900s. Humans don’t change the world does.

True crime and related nonfiction picks that make you rethink everything.