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pop culture non-fiction

... or pop culture leaning.

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror

Brain Food (from kale to popcorn)

by SheReadsAtMidnight

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

The Philosophy of Horror

Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

Here…Educate yourself!

by BookishWolfe

Nonfiction books across varying interests. Excludes memoirs and self help books

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls

The Return of Wolves: An Iconic Predator’s Struggle to Survive in the American West

Superstitions: A Handbook of Folklore, Myths, and Legends from Around the World

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls

B&N Picks

Books that were/are Barnes & Noble Monthly Picks, Books of the year, Hot Coffee Hot Books, or Book Club picks.

Tyger

The Rest of Our Lives

The Bakery Dragon

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Tyger

The Rest of Our Lives

learn something new!

niche nonfiction deep dives

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

millennial ennui

by miathermopolis

books that are quintessentially about the millennial experience or are millennial coded

Severance

Boy Parts

Congratulations, the Best is Over!

Normal People

Severance

Boy Parts

Noteworthy Nonfiction

Books to help me (and hopefully you) read more nonfiction

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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

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