The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Martin Gilbert. 900+ pages and I have never made it halfway through, even after trying multiple times. Too much.
@Marlene, try The Holocaust By Bullets. Shorter read but I had to read it in very small doses because it just breaks your heart. Nevertheless, well written & researched.
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. It’s overall about how people are less violent, but it goes into a lot of detail about medieval torture
The Zodiac. I know one of the survivors. His first kill was Cheri Jo Bates at Riverside City College in Riverside, Ca. I lived 2 blocks from there at the time it happened.
Unit 731 , about Japan’s Bio chemical warfare unit before and during WWII. They started long before the Nazi’s and were worse the Hitlers Bunch of nuts.
Radium Girls
This is in my tbr list! I really want to read it
Night
Helter Skelter
Vincent Bugliosi. Try ‘ Divinity Of Doubt The God Question ‘.
Agree Helter Skelter forgot about it after all these years and reads
Secrets In The Cellar
Gary Heidnick?
Josef Fritzl
A Child Called It
Same here. Devastated me.
Yes! I remember readinh this book in college. I got sick to my stomach. I cried. All feeling involved. I still remember this book, 15 years later.
Death in Life by Robert Lifton. It’s about the survivors of Hiroshima.
Auschwitz A New History
The Girl Next Door, Ed Gein
“I know my first name is Steven.”
Ulysses
Alligator @Candy
Simpson’s Forensic Medicine eleventh edition.
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum or Final Truth by PeeWee Gaskins
A Child Called It.
As far as powerful and hard to read? Night by Ellie Wiesel
Gross? Richard Laymon
Helter Skelter
The Devil in the White City
Helter Skelter
Also In Cold Blood
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Martin Gilbert. 900+ pages and I have never made it halfway through, even after trying multiple times. Too much.
@Marlene, try The Holocaust By Bullets. Shorter read but I had to read it in very small doses because it just breaks your heart. Nevertheless, well written & researched.
Helter Skelter
@Cami I loved this one. If you think of a true story yeah, it’s evil
@Elvia I read it at a pretty young age 11 ish. It scared the hell out of me but I devoured that book!
I got the feeling. I was so confused in the end. Charles Manson got me for some moments. He was impressive
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/724355.Mistresses_of_Mayhem?ac=1&from_search=true
The witching hour I ??
Interesting!! Following…
The Road Out of Hell by Anthony Flacco. Not so gruesome because of the details but just because of the fact that it’s about child rape and murder
Read some really interesting books about the Aztec and the Mayan
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. It’s overall about how people are less violent, but it goes into a lot of detail about medieval torture
In Cold Blood By Truman Capote
Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer by Ann McElhinney
Following
Helter Skelter
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. (Nathaniel Philbrick).
American Psycho.
Non-fiction?
The Most Dangerous Animal by David Livingstone Smith was pretty gruesome in the examples of how low humans can sink.
Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. A very difficult read- very difficult.
Constantine’s Sword.
The Long Walk by Stephen King
That’s fiction though..read the post again 😉
@Teresa Haha thanks!! Definitely didn’t read that right!!?
Pretty Girls…Karen Slaughter
Again, that’s fiction…
NON fiction? I’d have to say Helter Skelter.
Zodiac Killers. (Sorry, not sure of the exact title). Or the description of the reporter’s murder by the Saudis.
Hiroshima and In Cold Blood
Helter Skelter
I have this on my shelf…so many good reviews for this book….but I’m nervous to read really hope I like it
Korean novel titled “Silenced” (Dogani in Korean)
In lieu is not read that correctly how about The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson! Couldn’t even finish it!
I read that a good while ago-that was a very good book-but Holmes was a very, very sick man.
@Erin I too read this book awhile ago! It was a very good book. I have it to be read again.
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
The Zodiac. I know one of the survivors. His first kill was Cheri Jo Bates at Riverside City College in Riverside, Ca. I lived 2 blocks from there at the time it happened.
F
A Child Called It
@Sarah sad book. Did you read the other two that went along with it?
@Tam no, I wasn’t able to, the first book was just too upsetting for me
If you got through the first one, the next two are not that bad.
I did start the second but dont think I ever finished. I don’t remember why. I was like 15 when I read it
Helter Skelter
“Mind Hunter” by John Douglas
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Unit 731 , about Japan’s Bio chemical warfare unit before and during WWII. They started long before the Nazi’s and were worse the Hitlers Bunch of nuts.
Have you read “The Rape of Nanking” by Iris Chang?
Not that i recall, but have read others on that subject.
What is F.
Following
So glad you asked. I always thought it meant the F word.
No on here knows what nonfiction means
@Haylene ?
When rabbit howls
I was thinking of a Kennedy biography.
The current Brexit deal.
Helter Skelter.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
There’s no greater real life horror story than what Russia did to its own people…arguably more people were purposefully killed than the Holocaust.
The Gulag Archipelago is a good place to start learning about it.
In Cold Blood and Helter Skelter.
I just read Fred & Rose, the Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors by Howard Sounes
The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker. Turned my stomach.
helter skelter
In Board Daylight