The most popular true crime books of 2023

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true crime books published in 2023, most popular first.

Written in Bone Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

Sue Black

Published 2023

336 pages

Gangs of New York (with Original Illustrations)

Herbert Asbury

Published 2023

The Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Published 2023

308 pages

The Snakehead

Patrick Radden Keefe

Published 2023

432 pages

The Best Minds A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

Jonathan Rosen

Published 2023

560 pages

You're That Bitch & Other Cute Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself

Bretman Rock

Published 2023

272 pages

Wake An Extraordinarily Powerful Debut Thriller about a Missing Persons Case, for Fans of Jane Harper

Shelley Burr

Published 2023

363 pages

The Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson: First Printed In 1682 At Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England. Now Reprinted In Facsimile

Mary Rowlandson

Published 2023

182 pages

The Most Dangerous Animal of All Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer

Gary L. Stewart, Susan Mustafa

Published 2023

458 pages

Still Life with Bones Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Alexa Hagerty

Published 2023

320 pages

Serpico

Peter Maas

Published 2023

1 page

Among the Bros

Max Marshall

Published 2023

160 pages

You Can't Win, Complete and Unabridged by Jack Black

Jack Black

Published 2023

255 pages

The Defense Lawyer The Barry Slotnick Story

James Patterson, Benjamin Wallace

Published 2023

416 pages

Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic

Barry Meier

Published 2023

240 pages

The Key Man How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

Simon Clark, Will Louch

Published 2023

352 pages

Don't Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered

Tamara Leitner

Published 2023

461 pages

Number Go Up Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

Published 2023

304 pages

Hell's Half-Acre The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier

Susan Jonusas

Published 2023

368 pages

Dead in the Water Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry

Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel

Published 2023

268 pages

What Remains The Absolutely Unputdownable New York Times Editors' Choice

Wendy Walker

Published 2023

256 pages

Slenderman Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

Kathleen Hale

Published 2023

368 pages

What the Dead Know Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

Barbara Butcher

Published 2023

288 pages

The Other Dr. Gilmer Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

Benjamin Gilmer

Published 2023

320 pages

Written in Bone Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

Gangs of New York (with Original Illustrations)

The Circular Staircase

The Snakehead

The Best Minds A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

You're That Bitch & Other Cute Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself

Wake An Extraordinarily Powerful Debut Thriller about a Missing Persons Case, for Fans of Jane Harper

The Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson: First Printed In 1682 At Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England. Now Reprinted In Facsimile

The Most Dangerous Animal of All Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer

Still Life with Bones Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Serpico

Among the Bros

You Can't Win, Complete and Unabridged by Jack Black

The Defense Lawyer The Barry Slotnick Story

Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic

The Key Man How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

Don't Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered

Number Go Up Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Hell's Half-Acre The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier

Dead in the Water Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry

What Remains The Absolutely Unputdownable New York Times Editors' Choice

Slenderman Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

What the Dead Know Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

The Other Dr. Gilmer Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

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