Recs if you like Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues...

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"

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.

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

fill in the blank and maybe learn something new!

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

Alternate title: no human in history has ever been well

Microhistory and PopSci books to find your newest hyperfixation.

“Hey do you remember [insert horrible event here]? I should read a book about that.”

Books on disasters, horrible events, and scientific blunders.

Did I miss one? Let me know in the comments!

For when music just won't cut it and you need a new weird hyperfixation.

non-fic I loved!