Recs if you like Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains...

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.

WHAT LIES BENEATH US LIES BEFORE US

Books about digging, the ground we walk on and the stories buried underneath our feet. From dinosaurs / paleontology, anthropology, ancient history, archaeology to the soil and geology and all its wonders. Non-fiction only

Nonfiction about historical events, people, and places outside of North America & Europe (both contemporary and ancient history).

This list can include nonwestern perspectives within/analyzing western cultures or countries as well (as long as it’s in a historical context).

Note: check content warnings; books in this list may cover triggering subjects

Books that tackle death and dying.

This list will focus on death, dying, and grief in all aspects, as well as the value of human life. Concepts of death education, grief and coping. In addition, cultural and religious perspectives and traditions, plus accounts from moritians and death doulas.

I mean I feel like this one is pretty self explanatory. cannibalism that happened in real life NOT true crime (mostly)

how we keep them, how they happen, how they taste, how we think about them, and everything else in-between

this divisive book handles the intersectionality of patriarchy, exploitation, meat eating, and consumption within the context of tumultuous Argentinian political society. these books are for anyone who wants to learn / read more about these topics. Check the comments for notes/explanations for each title

ecological feministical marxistical critical theoretical international

nonfiction works on the history and modern day applications of forensic science

examples: forensic anthropology forensic biology forensic ecology forensic entomology forensic medicine forensic pathology forensic psychology

Inspired by the Morbidly Curious Book Club, these are nonfiction books that tackle topics often treated as taboo or seen as too grim and grisly to discuss.

general anthropology books! i haven’t read a good chunk of these, but they’ve been recommended for the list!!

These are history books about less acknowledged history, of course this tends to happen most with history from non-white, colonised places but has happened in many others too. It is important to draw attention to these issues so that they are not forgotten (non-fiction only)

no? well, now you do Books about [niche subject] or [not so niche subject] that spam from the mysterious and the macabre to the weird and unsettling to just interesting and fun

Fiction and nonfiction about expedition, exploration and cultural anthropology

Memoirs and life stories that impact the brain and the soul. Testimonies of the darkest hours of humanity and, also, the lightest ones. For, understanding the world, starts with understanding the humans in it...