The most popular true crime books of 2020

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true crime books published in 2020, most popular first.

Assata An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

Published 2020

320 pages

American Predator The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan

Published 2020

304 pages

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Published 2020

208 pages

The Mercies

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Published 2020

352 pages

Q is for Quarry

Sue Grafton

Published 2020

464 pages

Memorial Drive

Natasha Trethewey

Published 2020

224 pages

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

Published 2020

82 pages

Zodiac The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer

Robert Graysmith

Published 2020

432 pages

Lost Girls The Unsolved American Mystery of the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Murders

Robert Kolker

Published 2020

432 pages

Agent Sonya Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

Ben Macintyre

Published 2020

377 pages

Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope

Published 2020

552 pages

All That Remains A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

Sue Black

Published 2020

360 pages

Cover of Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction)

Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction)

Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Published 2020

427 pages

George Washington's Secret Six (Young Readers Adaptation) The Spies Who Saved America

Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Published 2020

176 pages

Furious Hours Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Casey Cep

Published 2020

352 pages

We Keep the Dead Close A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

Becky Cooper

Published 2020

499 pages

Chase Darkness with Me How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Billy Jensen

Published 2020

400 pages

Industrial Society and Its Future Unabomber Manifesto

FC (Theodore Kaczynski )

Published 2020

126 pages

Hollywood Park A Memoir

Mikel Jollett

Published 2020

384 pages

Numbers Don't Lie

Vaclav Smil

Published 2020

384 pages

The Great Pretender The Undercover Mission that Changed Our Understanding of Madness

Susannah Cahalan

Published 2020

400 pages

The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

Sara Gay Forden

Published 2020

1 page

The Pale-Faced Lie A True Story (Large Print)

David Crow

Published 2020

564 pages

A Serial Killer's Daughter My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

Kerri Rawson

Published 2020

336 pages

Assata An Autobiography

American Predator The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

The Undocumented Americans

The Mercies

Q is for Quarry

Memorial Drive

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Zodiac The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer

Lost Girls The Unsolved American Mystery of the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Murders

Agent Sonya Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

Barchester Towers

All That Remains A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction)

George Washington's Secret Six (Young Readers Adaptation) The Spies Who Saved America

Furious Hours Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

We Keep the Dead Close A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

Chase Darkness with Me How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Industrial Society and Its Future Unabomber Manifesto

Hollywood Park A Memoir

Numbers Don't Lie

The Great Pretender The Undercover Mission that Changed Our Understanding of Madness

The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

The Pale-Faced Lie A True Story (Large Print)

A Serial Killer's Daughter My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

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