Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Mary Roach

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Kate Moore

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

Alison Matthews David

Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet

Will Hunt

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Katherine Rundell

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

Richard Shepherd

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime

Val McDermid

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

Judy Melinek

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

Bill Dedman

Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers

Deborah Cadbury

A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression

Jane Ziegelman

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

Thomas Morris

The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus

Ryan Jacobs

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

Caitlin Doughty

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

Rose George

Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

Greg Melville

Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town

Andy McPhee

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

Stephen Puleo

A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth

Samantha Weinberg

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Megan Rosenbloom

Clara's Grand Tour: Travels with a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Glynis Ridley

Hallucinations

Oliver Sacks

Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures

Bill Schutt

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

Bill Schutt

Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans

Bill Schutt

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey

Harold T.P. Hayes

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

John Green