Recs if you like The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I...

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.

Nonfiction on a single, weirdly specific topic

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

Books that focus on “fun fact” histories, people, concepts, crimes, developments and snapshots from human history.

WWI as represented by historians looking back on events.

A mix of both introductory and more academic texts.

Please feel free to recommend any good histories you know - whether the focus is a particular topic (eg. medicine), person, front, or battle. I have not read all of these books - if any are particularly poor or unsuitable, please let me know so I may remove them.

As someone who voraciously reads fiction, getting interested in non-fic is a bit of a slog. Does that describe you? Fantastic! Here are non-fic books that I found page-turning, compelling, and interesting.

list of books by authors ive followed for ages on social media or consumed other media of theirs!