Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fatal Charms and Other Tales of Today | 1987 | Dominick Dunne | Buy |
| 2 | The Way We Lived Then: The Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper | 1999 | Dominick Dunne | Buy |
| 3 | Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments | 2001 | Dominick Dunne | Buy |
Dominick Dunne’s non-fiction collects his journalism and personal reflections. Fatal Charms and Other Tales of Today (1987) gathers his early Vanity Fair pieces, The Way We Lived Then: The Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper (1999) is a memoir, and Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments (2001) covers criminal cases he reported on.
Dunne spent decades as a Vanity Fair correspondent covering high-society scandals and criminal trials. His personal connection to the subject was deep: his daughter Dominique was murdered in 1982, and the trial that followed pushed him toward covering the justice system. That experience shaped everything he wrote about crime and privilege afterward.
Justice is probably his most widely read non-fiction book, covering cases like the O.J. Simpson trial and the Menendez brothers. Dunne had a talent for getting close to the wealthy and powerful, then writing about them with sharp observation. His memoir, The Way We Lived Then, looks back at his years in Hollywood and New York society.