Recs if you like All the Living and the Dead...
Teach me something new and oddly specific ๐ฌ
Niche nonfiction, aka micro-histories!
Death Positivity
Death will unfailingly find every person to have ever lived, yet is treated as a taboo topic in some cultures, causing extreme, pervasive anxiety. This nonfiction list aims to broaden understanding of this inevitability, both to hopefully negate some of the anxiety as well as satisfy some of our more morbid curiosities. It also aims to show that death is another, still useful, stage in the life cycle, aiding those that remain by helping to advance medicine, solve crimes, or understand art.
microhistories: โhow do you even know that??โ
microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"
Morbid Curiosity
Nonfiction books to explore your morbid curiosity. Topics include death, pathogens, the paranormal, and more.
Check out my list horror nonfiction for books about horror media.
All that's left is bones: Books about ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ โ ๏ธ
Books about death, dying, grief and what remains.
Books w pretty skulls on the cover
What can I say? I love bones ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ and def open to suggestions, any genre!
none house, with left grief
Nonfiction that makes me think of The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir.
Death Culture and Dying
Books that tackle death and dying.
On Death and Dying โฐ๏ธ
This list will focus on death, dying, and grief in all aspects, as well as the value of human life. Concepts of death education, grief and coping. In addition, cultural and religious perspectives and traditions, plus accounts from moritians and death doulas.
Chicken Noodle Soup for the Macabre Soul
Nonfiction about macabre and taboo subjects
so you want to know about dead bodies
how we keep them, how they happen, how they taste, how we think about them, and everything else in-between
Brain Food
Microhistories and niche non-fiction to make you goโฆ huh?
Suggestions welcome
Morbid & Macabre
Inspired by the Morbidly Curious Book Club, these are nonfiction books that tackle topics often treated as taboo or seen as too grim and grisly to discuss.
there are two certainties in life
and this list is not books about taxes.
non-fic about the end and after. taking any suggestions, as always!
Non Fiction That's Actually A Great Read
a list of non fiction books about a wide variety of topics that are actually a great reading experience, even if sometimes tough to read because of the subject it covers (in other words, you may get angry, you may be in awe, but you'll definitely learn something)
Reading Specifically, and Deeply
Niche non-fiction to open your mind to a world in specifics
did you know...
no? well, now you do Books about [niche subject] or [not so niche subject] that spam from the mysterious and the macabre to the weird and unsettling to just interesting and fun
Memento Mori
Remember you must die. Demystify the taboo surrounding mortality and promote โdeath positivityโ. Learn to value life and living intentionally.
Mortality
Understanding and coming to terms with our own mortality and the mortality of others. Morbid curiosities.
floral covers
that specific kind of book with all the pretty but unsettling florals
