non-fiction cannibalism

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

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created by tea.eats

last updated March, 2026

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This Horrid Practice

Paul Moon

The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine

Robert Conquest

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

Barbara Creed

Monster Theory: Reading Culture

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

Ned Sublette

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Alexa Hagerty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (Holt Paperback)

Jasper Becker

Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

Jack D. Forbes

Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party

George R. Stewart

Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition

Bruce Henderson

The Custom of the Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck, Murder, and the Last Taboo

Neil Hanson

Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial that Changed Legal History

Adam Cohen

Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society

Beth A. Conklin

Flesh and Blood: A History of the Cannibal Complex

Reay Tannahill

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

Bill Schutt

Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, 2)

Nicolas Werth

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

Daniel James Brown

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

Piers Paul Read

From Cannibals To Radicals: Figures and Limits of Exoticism

Roger Celestin

Cannibal Killers

Moira Martingale

Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health

Richard Rhodes

Miracle in the Andes

Nando Parrado

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

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kittytornado

User name suspect.... tea.eats whom?!

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tea.eatsOP

ha I have no idea what you're implying kittytornado 😺 🌪️

polterbooks

Love this 😍

cowboyemoji

recommending captain's dinner by adam cohen!

tea.eatsOP

I forgot this one thank you!!

bbyoozi

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Just like your username, this list, once again, eats (figuratively and literally in the books) 😂

midnight_ruffles

Real cannibals…

Awesome. The perfect nightmare fuel. Thank you. I say this respectfully and sarcastically 😑

But also…why can’t I fricken look away. 👀

alkaios

I saw the Wager on this list, and recently it popped up on my audiobook app and I was thinking of giving it a listen (it sounds interesting), so I figured it couldn't hurt to ask - would you recommend reading this book?

tea.eatsOP

i actually don't know! There's a few books on this list I haven't read yet, and The Wager is one of them. I know it's very popular, and Grann wrote Killers of the Flower Moon (i believe) which is very highly regarded.

I have read In The Heart of the Sea, though, which is about a different shipwreck. I can definitely recommend that one!

alkaios

Thank you!! I'll keep an eye out for the Heart of the Sea if it's ever available to listen to, thanks for the advice (it was really nice of you to reply 😊)

tea.eatsOP

Of course always happy to chat about books ! 📚 🖤

tea.eatsOP

context for this list: an educated cannibal is an ethical cannibal. these are non-fiction books that have cannibalism in them. on this list you will find survival stories, anthropological studies, informative anthologies, historical non-fiction, and political writings that explore the cultural relevance of anthropophagy. you will notice there is not a lot of true crime on this list as i typically do not read that genre. also, i have curated this list to include books i own/have read, or at least books that contain the most accurate and recent information on a given subject.