Recs if you like Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection...

Niche nonfiction, aka micro-histories!

This list was a winner of the Q2 2026 Community Voting event - if you'd like to participate in the Quest, a link is pinned in the comments.

When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

Keep tracking of PB lore one TBR train book at a time. List of books that have unexpectedly + delightfully affected our PB experience. (PB pyramid scheme name approved by our queen of clownery @ayzrules + the book that led the scheme by our pink queen @crybabybea)

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"

medical nonfiction written like the most engaging action novels that will expand your knowledge without pain let me know if i should add anything here!

These are some of my favorites and books I want to read--nonfiction that reads like fiction or is otherwise compelling. If you're intimidated by books on history, science, memoir, or other subgenres in nonfiction, start here.

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.

in honor of disability pride month, here is a series on the colours of the flag! the last (but certainly not least) colour on this flag is black, or grey, depending on who you ask. these colours are the most powerful of the bunch, since they represent those in the disability community who have died due to ableism, eugenics, suicide, illness and abuse. books in this list will be fiction and non-fiction. as always, please feel free to comment ur recs!

If you're looking to read something that will radicalize you...this is the list for you. Signed, your fave community organizer

Accessible non-fiction titles that are a good intro to the genre—suggestions always welcome! As an added bonus, most of the audiobooks are also great 🎧

Recommendations for homeschool survivors, from homeschool survivors. These are books (and additional resources, in the comments) that have helped me and other former homeschoolers begin to fill in some gaping holes in our education.

Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.

The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.

reading is political.

recs welcome!

histories of sickness around the globe - death, destruction, and the fight for cures and eradication

All of the books seen on display in Episode 1 of The Vampire Lestat, "Detroit," during Lestat's trip to the independent bookstore in Montreal, encountering some snotty cashiers.

history you probably didn't learn in school

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

This list is made possible by all the 🫛🐝’ers who came through for me during a terrible breakup. I asked the club for joyful nonfiction recs because fiction is too emotionally fraught for what I’m going through.

I hope these books can bring you some hope, relief, or perspective. Together, we can get through this 😊

History is really just a convenient story if it's the government or a company pushing the narrative. Investigative and alternative perspectives to popular history.