Book Recommendations: My Friend Dahmer

An account, in graphic novel form, of the May 4, 1970, killing of four unarmed Kent State University students who had been protesting the Vietnam War by the Ohio National Guardsmen.

Follows the trials and tribulations of three twentysomething friends one summer as they clean the streets of pile after pile of garbage while navigating small-town bureaucrats in the sweltering heat. Inspired by the author's own experiences as a garbageman.

He was the world's first serial killer and he existed in the late 19th century, operating around the Chicago World's Fair, building a literal house of horrors, replete with chutes for dead bodies, gas chambers, surgical rooms. He methodically murdered up to 200 people, mostly young women. Part of a comic series on historic murderers, so there's lots more!

Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day with flights of fancy, finding refuge in toys and animals and insects rather than the unpredictable adults around him. Dandro perceptively details the effects of poverty and addiction on a family while maintaining a child's innocence for as long as he can.

Presents in graphic novel format of the life of Harry Haft, a Holocaust survivor who was forced to fight other Jews in the concentration camps during World War II for the perverse entertainment of SS officers and managed to escape the camps and find freedom in America.

A brief biography, in graphic novel format, of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who went on the run after shooting a young girl and was later found dead, shot by members of his own gang.

A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.

Corey's mom made him feel safe after his parents' divorce, and the dreaded visitations with his dad begin. But as Corey grows older, he can't ignore his mother's increasingly wild accusations. When she whisks Corey and his sister away from their home and into the boiling Nevada desert, they struggle to survive with little food and the police on their trail. Under the night sky, Corey is visited by a flickering ghost who urges him to fight for a life outside of his mother's spoon-fed tales, before it's too late.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time. Using his uncanny ability to become both predator and prey, Douglas examines each crime scene, reliving both the killer's and the victim's actions in his mind, creating their profiles, describing their habits, and predicting their next moves.

Taking readers back to 1924, this shocking true crime story follows two eighteen-year-old college students who kidnapped and murdered a child they both knew, their trial, and how a renowned defense attorney enabled them to avoid the death penalty.

Ann Rule, a writer working on the biggest story of her life, was tracking down a brutal serial killer. Little did she realize that the "Ted" the police were seeking was the same Ted who worked with her at a Seattle crisis clinic, a man who had become her close friend and confidant. As she began to put the evidence together, a terrifying picture emerged of the man she thought she knew.

Explores the cases of over one hundred notorious crimes and criminals from world history, covering bandits, arsonists, hucksters, white collar criminals, organized crime, kidnappers, extortionists, and murderers."

Temple Baker, the daughter of a well-known serial killer, assumes the role of a camp counselor at a camp for true crime enthusiasts while she attempts to unearth the truth surrounding her mother's murder, but becomes embroiled in a disturbing series of events when a girl is found dead in the woods.

Korede's sister, Ayoola, is the favorite child, the beautiful one, and possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Good thing Korede knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. But when Ayoola starts to show interest in Korede's latest crush, Korede must reckon with what her sister has become and what she will do about it.

Seventeen-year-old Scarlet Murphy is shocked to learn that the father she never knew is a notorious serial killer, and now that he is dying, he will give the names of his remaining victims to his daughter--but only if she agrees to meet with him.