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Morbid Curiosity

by violet.booklover
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115 books

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.

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the CrematoryWill My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead BodiesGory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of ScienceA History of the World Through Body Parts: The Stories Behind the Organs, Appendages, Digits, and the Like Attached to (or Detached from) Famous Bodies
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the CrematoryWill My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

Morbidly Curious Book Club 🖤📚

by endless_tbr_list
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66 books

All books selected to read by the Morbidly Curious Book Club. This list will be updated when new reads are announced!

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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest TrailStiff: The Curious Lives of Human CadaversBriefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the EndThe Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest TrailStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

💉Medical Non-Fiction Books 💊

by Cosmoite
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51 books

A collection concerning medical history, development, education, instances of corruption, etc. Topics of epidemiology and pharmaceuticals included.

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Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid EpidemicFentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid EpidemicEmpire of the Scalpel: The History of SurgeryApollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid EpidemicFentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

Microhistories

by dinomelonn
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31 books

Books about one very specific thing throughout history (feel free to leave recs in the comments :) )

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human CadaversBlood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of MenstruationEverything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest InfectionTen Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human CadaversBlood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
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