Can anyone reccomend me books about thievery? Like, maybe a thieves guide or something...

just ran across this one.

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This has some good stuff on pickpocketing
index-of.co.uk/Guides/Techniques of the Professional Pickpocket.pdf

any good?

haven't read it yet, unfortunately! it does roam through history though, and it has a focus on architecture

This thread remind me that I haven't shoplift in a while. I kinda miss that feeling of "oh fuck if someone notice I'm fucked" and then the sweet relief after leaving the store. Anyone else /shoplifts/ here? It's a pretty fun hobby, I stopped because I'm living in the same city as my parents now and If one thing goes wrong they will be on my ass for months about this. But it's so hard not stealing something when I'm on a supermarket. I once stealed some fine chillean whine, thats the one I'm most proud about it. That and all the books I used to steal on my local equivalent of Barn and Nobles, specially 2666 from mr. Bolaño. That one was special. Too bad I gave it to my ex-gf and now and not only don't have the book but I'm also broke af to buy a copy.

this is some good honesty user.

the hard thing with thieves is they don't tell anyone.

this is more conmen. have you read "catch me if you can"?

just going to toss a movie recommendation there too: " matchstick men"

not historical but have you read watchmen. or v for vendetta (comic books)

Not so much thievery, but a long time ago when I was reading Mario Puzo's works (you should read them OP, I recommend The Sicilian to start with), I came across a book that had a cover in The Godfather's cover style/font that detailed a mobster hitman's methods and life in autobiographical form. It wasn't so amazing but it felt authentic & the methods were accurate. I wish I can find anything about it, I have no idea what the book is. I read it in the late 90's/early 00's.

There's a book called The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter which is pulpy and reads like you're watching a movie, and is also informative, not to mention deceptive because of the main title. It's an actual biography and the person it's about also details how he goes about robbing places and laundering money etc.

Are there more books that are fun reads but also informative in regards to committing crimes?

You Can’t Win by Jack Black (not that one) was written by a hobo, burglar and grifter in the 1920s about his life in the criminal underworld. William Burroughs discovered it as a child and always said it was the most influential book in his life.

Cringe

The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet is fictionalized autobiography about the seedy life of a gay petty criminal in 1930s Europe.

Kind of what you're looking for, maybe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Swindles

You shouldn't steal. It's a horrible sin.