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Chicken Noodle Soup for the Macabre Soul

by prettyinpapercuts

Nonfiction about macabre and taboo subjects

The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

In the wise words of Bill Nye, "Science Rules!!"

The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurus, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurus, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight

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

The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful: Curious and Incredible Facts that Will Blow Your Mind

Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses

Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful: Curious and Incredible Facts that Will Blow Your Mind

True Crime

Nonfiction true crime books I feel are well researched and respectful of their victims.

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The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

what to read between your podcasts.

by theangrycatmom

true crime and true crime adjacent.

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America

The Macabre

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

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