Books that are not Fantasy or Romance
created by MissNotBrightside
last updated February, 2026
Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues
Hans Zinsser
Medicine Women: A Pictoral History of Women Healers
Elisabeth Brooke
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Deirdre Cooper Owens
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
Giulia Enders
Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
Ashley Ward
Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink
Tina Horn
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
Pagan Kennedy
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
Bee Wilson
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
Judith Flanders
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
Hannah Carlson
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Dennis Duncan
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (The Lawrence Stone Lectures)
Lorraine Daston
How to Read Now
Elaine Castillo
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Sophie Gilbert
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Anne Helen Petersen
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
Kelsey McKinney
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
Ellen Atlanta
Authority: Essays
Andrea Long Chu
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Amanda Leduc
Annie Bot
Sierra Greer
1984
George Orwell
Vampires of El Norte
Isabel Cañas
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
William Alexander
Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
Courtney Gustafson
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
Masters of Death
Olivie Blake
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
James Islington
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