Update: I can’t believe Phillip Seymour Hoffman died shortly after I posted this! He was an amazing actor, especially as Truman Capote. So sad!

Since I’m always on the lookout for book recommendations, I thought I’d offer some of my own favorites.

I’m starting with an oldie, but goodie, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. This is one of the best True Crime books ever written, if not the best. Capote is credited with inventing the “Non-Fiction Novel,” and it truly does read like a novel.

It’s about the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family in 1959. Many times, I’ve thought about the Clutter family, in their isolated farmhouse, on the lonesome prairie, struck down by two vicious killers.

Killed for nothing, by nobodies, looking for a “big score.” (Which ended up being nothing more than $40, binoculars, and a radio.)

There were multiple movies made as well, but the book tops them all!

Have you read In Cold Blood?