Recs if you like Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures...

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.

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦‍⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄

For when you want something more ominous, macabre, or mysterious in taste that also centers on a deeply specific subject. Ranging from the occult to the supernatural to just plain weird and interesting. Expand your knowledge by reading these narrow glimpses into the past.

Nonfiction about strange, outlandish, and/or macabre subjects (books that make you more or less go “wtf?!”)

Bats are one of my favorite animals, but they're widely misunderstood! They're soooo cute, like lil nocturnal sky foxes, and very important to the ecosystems they live in.

This list includes both fiction and nonfiction books that feature bat characters, or are about bats, and range from picture books to adult-only romances.

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

non-fiction books to read if you want to learn about an oddly specific topic

It's FALL!!!! Which means spoooooooky book time!