These groundbreakers and award-winning true crime tales represent the best of the genre.

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These groundbreakers and award-winning true crime tales represent the best of the genre.
Destination: True Crime > Award Winners
Looking for a place to start in the true crime genre? From the Edgar Award and the Pulitzer Prize to the audiobook-focused Audie Awards, these heralded true crime classics represent the best of the best.
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  • In Cold Blood Audiobook By Truman Capote cover art

    • In Cold Blood

    • By: Truman Capote
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,120 ratings
    • Edgar Award: Best Fact Crime, 1966

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  • Ghettoside Audiobook By Jill Leovy cover art

    • Ghettoside

    • A True Story of Murder in America
    • By: Jill Leovy
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,893 ratings
    • Audie Award: Non-Fiction, 2016

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  • Tinderbox Audiobook By Robert W. Fieseler cover art

    • Tinderbox

    • The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
    • By: Robert W. Fieseler
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Edgar Award: Best Fact Crime, 2019

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon Audiobook By David Grann cover art

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  • The Murder of the Century Audiobook By Paul Collins cover art

    • The Murder of the Century

    • The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
    • By: Paul Collins
    • Narrated by: William Dufris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 1,417 ratings
    • Audie Award: Non-Fiction, 2012

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  • Chasing the Devil Audiobook By Sheriff David Reichert cover art

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  • The Professor and the Madman Audiobook By Simon Winchester cover art

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  • The Executioner's Song Audiobook By Norman Mailer cover art

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  • Five Days at Memorial Audiobook By Sheri Fink cover art

    • Five Days at Memorial

    • Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
    • By: Sheri Fink
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,562 ratings
    • National Book Critics Circle Award: General Nonfiction, 2014; PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, 2015

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  • The Wicked Boy Audiobook By Kate Summerscale cover art

    • The Wicked Boy

    • The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
    • By: Kate Summerscale
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 332 ratings
    • Edgar Award: Best Fact Crime, 2017

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  • Helter Skelter Audiobook By Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry cover art

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  • The Devil in the White City Audiobook By Erik Larson cover art

    • The Devil in the White City

    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30,522 ratings
    • Edgar Award: Best Fact Crime, 2004

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  • Shot in the Heart Audiobook By Mikal Gilmore cover art

    • Shot in the Heart

    • By: Mikal Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • National Book Critics Circle Award: Biography/Autobiography, 1994

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  • Arc of Justice Audiobook By Kevin Boyle cover art

    • Arc of Justice

    • A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
    • By: Kevin Boyle
    • Narrated by: Lizan Mitchell
    • Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • National Book Award: Nonfiction, 2004

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  • Devil in the Grove Audiobook By Gilbert King cover art

    • Devil in the Grove

    • Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
    • By: Gilbert King
    • Narrated by: Peter Francis James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,335 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize: General Nonfiction, 2013; Audie Award: History, 2014

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  • Just Mercy Audiobook By Bryan Stevenson cover art

    • Just Mercy

    • A Story of Justice and Redemption
    • By: Bryan Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18,245 ratings
    • Andrew Carnegie Medal: Nonfiction, 2015; NAACP Image Award: Nonfiction, 2015

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  • The New Jim Crow Audiobook By Michelle Alexander cover art

    • The New Jim Crow

    • Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Michelle Alexander
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12,802 ratings
    • NAACP Image Award: Nonfiction, 2011

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  • Homicide Audiobook By David Simon cover art

    • Homicide

    • A Year on the Killing Streets
    • By: David Simon
    • Narrated by: Reed Diamond
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,494 ratings
    • Edgar Award: Best Fact Crime, 1992

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  • Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell Audiobook By Jack Olsen cover art

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  • Midnight in Peking Audiobook By Paul French cover art

    • Midnight in Peking

    • How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
    • By: Paul French
    • Narrated by: Erik Singer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • Edgar Award: Best Fact Crime, 2013

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