Recs if you like The Family that Couldn't Sleep...
microhistories: “how do you even know that??”
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"
WTF?! (What The nonFiction)
Nonfiction about strange, outlandish, and/or macabre subjects (books that make you more or less go “wtf?!”)
Chicken Noodle Soup for the Macabre Soul
Nonfiction about macabre and taboo subjects
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Books about insomnia and disordered sleep. Suggestions welcome.
Rare disabilities
Often called rare diseases, but these would be more accurately classified under the disability umbrella
Not meant as a way to fetishise or sensationalise the experiences of real people, more to create understanding from a social and biological perspective
