Recs if you like The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit...

These are some of my favorites and books I want to read--nonfiction that reads like fiction or is otherwise compelling. If you're intimidated by books on history, science, memoir, or other subgenres in nonfiction, start here.

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

Titles to help make your time in Maine a little weirder! This list includes nonfiction on offbeat regional history, quirky roadside attractions, cryptozoology, and ghost stories and other legends. Maine: the way life should be!

SISTER LISTS: Natural Maine | Critical Maine

Gorgeous forest imagery across a range of genres (fiction and nonfiction)

If you've ever wandered what happens in national parks, the answer is everything from murder, to cryptids, to history, to hauntings, and everything in between. National Park After Dark explores all that our parks offer with story's of heroism, survival, death, beauty, conservationism, history and animal life. Here is a growing list of books mentioned by Danielle and Cassy. Enjoy the view. But watch your back!

Please feel free to let me know if there are others I may have missed!

Not all of these books will have cannibalism... but there is a non-zero chance at least 1% will.

Nonfiction (mostly 😺) that read like fiction

A collection of true crime books that tackle infamous cases, strange people, and those who are caught up in the mix.

nonfiction about crime that is not* murder, rape, or war crimes: financial crime, cons, burglary, heists, fraud, forgery, art crime, trespass, political bribery, espionage, and arson

*NOT a guarantee of NO violence. please research content warnings if you need them.