Cryptoscatology's Essential JFK Assassination Books (Revised & Updated)

 The Warren Commission Report (1964):

 

The Second Oswald by Richard H. Popkin (1966):

Rush to Judgement by Mark Lane (1966):

 

  

 MacBird! by Barbara Garson (1966):

Were We Controlled? by Lincoln Lawrence (1967):

Winter Kills by Richard Condon (1974):

The Yankee and Cowboy War by Carl Oglesby (1977):

Operation Mind Control by Walter Bowart (1978/1994):

Conspiracy by Anthony Summers (1980):

Sherlock Holmes in Dallas by Edmund Aubrey (1980):

 

Apocalypse Culture edited by Adam Parfrey (1987) [This anthology is included on the list because it contains James Shelby Downard's infamous essay entitled "King-Kill/33°"]:

 

 

Libra by Don DeLillo (1988): 

 

 

 

On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison (1988):

 

Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs (1989):

 

 

The Idle Warriors by Kerry W. Thornley (1991):

 

  

JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy by L. Fletcher Prouty (1992):

 

The Man Who Knew Too Much by Dick Russell (1992):

Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott (1993):

Columbo: The Grassy Knoll by William Harrington (1993):

 Oswald's Tale by Norman Mailer (1995):

 

NASA, Nazis & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination by Kenn Thomas and William Torbitt (1996):

Dr. Mary’s Monkey by Edward T. Haslam (2007):

 

 11/22/63 by Stephen King (2011):

 

 

The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America by Mae Brussell (2014):

 

 

 

Regarding the Matter of Oswald's Body by Christopher Cantwell and Luca Casalanguida (2022):

 

 Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos by Robert Guffey (2025) [Alas, modesty does not forbid me from taking advantage of this opportunity to plug my latest nonfiction book, which includes a comprehensive chapter entitled "The Brain(s) that Killed Kennedy: The JFK Assassination as Seen Through Film"):