Recs if you like I'll Be Gone in the Dark...

book titles to use as email sign-offs when ‘(best) regards’ is starting to get boring ~ ~ ~ this list is inspired by those tiktoks of gen z unhinged email sign-offs and my hatred of the worst apps downloaded on my phone (outlook and microsoft authenticator)

Nonfiction about macabre and taboo subjects

Do you listen to True Crime Poscasts on a Friday night with your cat? Think you could solve the Unsolved?

Books featuring True Crimes of the Past and Present.

Nonfiction or “inspired by” allowed, but no straight up fiction. Suggestions welcome!

Books that really should be read via audiobook instead of physical/digital copy. Production, narrator, experience all top tier. Memoirs narrated by the authors.

True crime books that explain why you should choose the bear

Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX

Every book recommended by members of the band (except for the one that must not be named). Most of these were recommended by Lucy Dacus. If you are sitting on more books which any member of the band recommended, please hit me up and I will update the list!

Research material and references from the podcast. Relying heavily on lists made by others.

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.

true crime and true crime adjacent.

Nonfiction true crime books I feel are well researched and respectful of their victims.

True Crime and novels at least partly based on real crimes.

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

I've been addicted to watching Smosh all summer, here is a list of the casts and crew's favorite books from the Shayne Guesses video ;p I haven't read like... any of these.

Non-fiction can seem dry or intimidating but these books have been selected to be reads you can’t put down.

A collection of true crime books that tackle infamous cases, strange people, and those who are caught up in the mix.

books so good i want to forget so i could read them for the first time again!!!!

Accessible, interesting and compulsively readable non-fiction across a variety of genres for the non-fiction curious — compiled by someone who barely reads non-fiction. 😉

This list is started only with books I've read, but I'm open to recs!

nothing but the best here

The good kind (maybe…maybe not)