Updated 10/14/19

Look. Look and listen. Happy Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How To Guide week!! I dedicate this post to my fellow Murderinos- this is your master list of all of the books Karen and Georgia mention on My Favorite Murder. This was fun to make but a labor of love- I was only on episode 98 at the beginning of the year so I had a lot of catching up to do.

Here’s the thing. I am a massive fan of My Favorite Murder- but I’ve probably missed some. I made this list in the most basic way possible- had a notes document going on my phone and would pause the podcast to write a book down when they mentioned it. If you find I forgot one and you’re so inclined, please send me the episode number and I’ll add it. I’ll also be updating this list as K + G put out more episodes. As with all of my book links on my blog- these links are affiliate links so I’ll make a couple coins if you make a purchase.

Here, by category and in alphabetical order, are the books mentioned in My Favorite Murder. I did the best I could with episode numbers, but lots are missing and that’s going to have to be fine. Happy reading! SSDGM.

True Crime

American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century | Paula Uruburu | Ep. 136

Amityville Horror | Jay Anson | Ep. 90

Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets and Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic , James Renner | Ep. 99

Appointment for Murder : Story of the Killing Dentist | Susan Crain Bakos | Ep. 166

Beautiful Bad Girl: The Vicki Morgan Story | Gordon Basichis

Bitter Almonds: The True Story of Mothers, Daughters, and the Seattle Cyanide Murders | Gregg Olsen | Ep. 146

Black Dahlia Avenger | Steve Hodel | I Am The Night Special

The Bloody Century | Robert Wilhelm | Ep. 191

The Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice | Mara Leveritt | Ep. 136

Case Closed | Gerald Posner | Ep. 156

Chase Darkness with Me | Billy Jensen | Minisode 116, Episode 162

Cold Storage: A Killer With a Heart of Ice | Don Lasseter | Ep. 169

Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father’s Unsolved Murder | Robert David Crane | Ep. 163

Cults That Kill: Probing the Underworld of Occult Crime | Larry Kahaner

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident | Donnie Eichar | Ep. 188

Fire Lover: A True Story | Joseph Wambaugh

Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer | Ann Rule

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders | Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry | Minisode 77

The Hillside Stranglers: The Inside Story of the Killing Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles | Darcy O’Brien | Ep. 114

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark | Michelle McNamara | Ep 115

It Was Always Me: Edward Edwards the Most Prolific Serial Killer of All Time | John Cameron, Josh Willaert | Ep. 134

Keep Her Contained: A Mystery About Immigrant Ambitions and Mummified Remains | Oscar Corral | Ep. 150

The Killer Across the Table | John Douglas and Mark Olshaker | Ep 185

The Killing of Karen Silkwood | Richard Rashke | Ep 167

The Killing of the Unicorn 1960-1980 | Dorothy Stratten | Minisode 92

Killer Women- Devastating True Stories of Female Murderers | Wensley Clarkson | Ep. 190

The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century Old Serial Killer | Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James | Ep. 106, 168

The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Nation | Charlotte Gray | Ep 164

The Michigan Murders | Edward Keyes | Minisode 40

The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer | Skip Hollandsworth

The Mothman Prophecies | John Keel | Ep 183

No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators | Steve Jackson | Ep. 92

One Day She’ll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel | Fauna Hodel | I Am The Night Special

The One Why Got Away: Escape from the Kill Room | Gilles Tetreault | Ep. 163

Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland | James St. James | Ep. 135

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up | Richard Lloyd Parry

Poisoned Love: The True Story of ER Nurse Chaz Higgs, his Ambitious Wife, and and a Shocking Murder | Caitlin Rother | Ep. 157

The Poisoner’s Handbook | Deborah Blum | Ep. 190

Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence | Bill James

Prodigal Days: The Untold Story of Evelyn Nesbit | Evelyn Nesbit | Ep. 136

Satan Came to Eden: A Survivor's Account of the "Galapagos Affair” | Dore Strauch | Ep. 129

A Serial Killer’s Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming | Kerri Rawson | Bonus Ep- Fox’s Prodigal Son

Son of a Grifter | Kent Walker with Mark Schone | Bonus Episode Fox’s Prodigal Son Special

Scavengers: A True Story of Money, Madness, and Murder | Dick Cady | Ep. 165

Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life: A Former CIA Officer Reveals Safety and Survival Techniques to Keep You and Your Family Protected | Jason Hanson

Strange Piece of Paradise | Terri Jentz | Ep. 127

The Stranger Beside Me | Ann Rule | Ep. 61

Terror in Ypsilanti: John Norman Collins Unmasked | Gregory Fournier

To Kill and Kill Again: The Terrifying True Story of Montana’s Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer | John Coston | Ep. 149

Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal | Ann Rule | Minisode 118

They All Love Jack | Bruce Robinson | Ep. 143

Undying Love | Ben Harrison | Ep. 186

A Viable Suspect | Barry Ruhl | Ep. 91

Who Killed These Girls? The Yogurt Shop Murders | Beverly Lowry | Ep. 70

White Christmas, Bloody Christmas | M. Bruce Jones, Trudy J. Smith | Ep. 142

Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI | Robert Ressler

Wisconsin Death Trip | Michael Lesy | I Am The Night Special

Witness to Evil | Veronica McGrath | Ep: 123

Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation’s First Elusive Serial Killer | Robert Greysmith | Ep. 115

Fiction

A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | Minisode 112

Black Mad Wheel | Josh Malerman

Blacklands | Belinda Bauer

Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Ep. 105

Christine | Stephen King

The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | Ep. 140

Excuse Me For Living | Ric Klass

Firestarter | Stephen King

Flowers in the Attic | V.C. Andrews

Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins

Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams

It | Stephen King | Ep. 140

The Innocent Wife | Amy Lloyd | Ep. 136

The Killing GIft | Bari Wood | Ep. 149

Let The Great World Spin | Colum McCann | Ep. 141

The Lovely Bones | Ep. 114

Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | Ep. 140

My Sweet Audrina | V.C. Andrews

Pet Semetary | Stephen King

The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black | E.B. Hudspeth | Ep. 190

Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris

Something in the Water | Catherine Steadman | Minisode 87

The Stand | Stephen King

Startup | Doree Shafrir

Non Fiction

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders | Joshua Foer and Dylan Turas

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness | Susannah Cahalan

Daring Greatly | Brene Brown | Ep. 114, 150, 155

D’You Remember Yer Man? | Bobby Aherne

The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work | Yoni Freedhoff | Ep. 114

The Disappearing Spoon | Sam Kean | Ep. 190

The Four Tendencies | Gretchen Rubin | Ep. 162

Furiously Happy | Jenny Lawson

The Happiness Project | Gretchen Rubin | Ep. 162

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster | Stephen L. Carter | Episode 155

Just For the Love of It | Cathy O’Dowd | Episode 174

Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries | Jon Ronson

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit | John Douglas and Mark Olshaker | Ep. 97

The Men Who Stare at Goats | Jon Ronson

The Artist’s Way | Julie Cameron | Ep. 163

The Psychopath Test | Jon Ronson

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death | Caitlin Doughty | Minisode 93

The Radium Girls | Kate Moore | Ep. 190

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed | Jon Ronson

Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered | Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar | Cheryl Strayed | Ep. 114

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