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Crime

A list of books about crime mentioned on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
by O.J. Simpson
Panzram: A Journal of Murder
by Carl Panzram

biography
American Desperado: My Life-From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset
by Jon Roberts & Evan Wright

biography
The Westies: Inside New York’s Irish Mob
by T.J. English
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution
by T.J. English
The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
by T.J. English
Murder Machine
by Gene Mustain & Jerry Capeci
Papillon
by Henri Charriere

biography
The Strange Death of Vincent Foster: An Investigation
by Christopher Ruddy
Monsters & Madmen: A Death Row Experiment
by Nick Yarris
The Trials of Walter Ogrod
by Thomas Lowenstein
The Fear of 13: Countdown to Execution: My Fight for Survival on Death Row
by Nick Yarris
LAbyrinth
by Randall Sullivan
Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter
by Ken Klonsky
Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin
by Terrence E. Poppa
El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency
by Ioan Grillo
Gangster Warlords
by Ioan Grillo
The Wolf of Wall Street
by Jordan Belfort

finance
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
by John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Hidden War: How Special Operations Game Wardens Are Reclaiming America’s Wildlands From The Drug Cartels
by John Nores
War in the Woods: Combating The Marijuana Cartels On America’s Public Lands
by John Nores Jr. with James A. Swan
Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky
by William Van Meter
The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal
by Nick Bryant
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
by Tom O’Neill
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
by Michelle McNamara
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry
Wiseguy
by Nicholas Pileggi
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
by Jill Leovy
Inside Rikers
by Jennifer Wynn
Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy
by Marc North
Serial Killer Groupies
by RJ Parker
Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
by David M. Kennedy
Points of Truth: Revelations of “The Most Prolific Serial Arsonist of the 20th Century”
by John L. Orr
Fire Lover
by Joseph Wambaugh
Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation’s Most Elusive Serial Killer
by Robert Graysmith
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
by Philip Carlo

biography
The Family
by Ed Sanders
The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson
by Jeffrey Toobin
The Man from the Train: Discovering America’s Most Elusive Serial Killer
by Bill James & Rachel McCarthy James
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires
by Selwyn Raab
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
by Caroline Fraser