Next Reads
These books are considered important works in their respective areas. With one exception, they were highly recommended by Columbine author Dave Cullen, who cited them as influential to him in writing the book. (He is not a fan of The Executioner’s Song.)
Narrative Non-Fiction on Killers
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- The Devil & The White City, Erik Larson
- Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
- The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer
Other Classic Narrative Non-Fiction
- Longitude, Dana Sobel
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
- The Professor & The Madman, Simon Winchester
- The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
- All The President’s Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
- Blackhawk Down, Mark Bowden
- The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
- What It Takes, Richard Ben Cramer
Novels Excelling at Multiple Points of View
- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
- The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Fay Weldon
Classic Psychopaths in Literature
- Iago in Othello, William Shakespeare
- The narrator in Notes From Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Reading By Subject-Matter (e.g., psychopathy, lawsuits, gun control, police tactics, etc.)
- Without Conscience, Robert Hare
- The Mask of Sanity, Hervey Cleckley
- For many more, see the bibliography, organized by topic, in the back of the book. Highlights—more than fifty entries—are included in the online version: http://davecullen.com/columbine/bibliography.htm