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#2
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
  • Amy Stewart
3.5537 reads
#3
The Botany of Desire
The Botany of Desire
  • Michael Pollan
3.9968 reads
#4
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Wicked Bugs

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
  • Amy Stewart
01 read
#5
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Dark Banquet

Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
  • Bill Schutt
31 read
#6
The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
  • Gordon Grice
00 reads
#7
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
  • Sy Montgomery
3.785 reads
#8
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
  • Anthony Bourdain
4.15445 reads
#9
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
  • Mary Roach
3.91339 reads
#10
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The Woman with a Worm in Her Head

The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
  • Pamela Nagami
00 reads
#11
Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
  • Pamela Nagami
44 reads
#12
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The Deadly Dinner Party

The Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective Stories
  • Jonathan A. Edlow
3.333 reads
#13
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
  • William M. Bass
52 reads
#14
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Silent Witnesses

Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science
  • Nigel McCrery
51 read
#15
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
  • William R. Maples
41 read
#16
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Mop Men

Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners
  • Alan Emmins
00 reads
#17
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Famous Crimes the World Forgot

Famous Crimes the World Forgot: Ten Vintage True Crime Stories Rescued from Obscurity
  • Jason Lucky Morrow
3.65 reads
#18
The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
  • Harold Schechter
3.759 reads
#19
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Dead Center

Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office
  • Shiya Ribowsky
  • Tom Shachtman
00 reads
#20
Blood Secrets: Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist
Blood Secrets: Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist
  • Rod Englert
  • Kathy Passero
00 reads
#21
Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
  • Emily Craig
31 read
#22
No Bone Unturned: Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters
No Bone Unturned: Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters
  • Jeff Benedict
31 read
#23
The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat: And Other Gruesome Medical Tales
The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat: And Other Gruesome Medical Tales
  • Rob Myers
1.52 reads
#24
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
  • Steven Johnson
35 reads
#25
Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
  • Stefan Timmermans
00 reads
#26
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
  • Judy Melinek
  • T.J. Mitchell
3.9343 reads
#27
Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
  • Michelle Williams
4.25 reads
#28
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Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand

Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand:
  • Dana Kollmann
41 read
#29
Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After Csi Goes Home
Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After Csi Goes Home
  • Gil Reavill
3.333 reads
#30
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No Stone Unturned

No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators
  • Steve Jackson
3.754 reads
#31
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  • Michelle McNamara
4.06400 reads
#32
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Cemetery Stories

Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death
  • Katherine Ramsland
42 reads
#33
Beating the Devil's Game: A History of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation
Beating the Devil's Game: A History of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation
  • Katherine Ramsland
00 reads
#34
Coroner's Journal: Forensics and the Art of Stalking Death
Coroner's Journal: Forensics and the Art of Stalking Death
  • Louis Cataldie
3.52 reads
#35
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Fashionably Fatal

Fashionably Fatal
  • Summer Strevens
41 read
#36
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
  • Mary Roach
3.94111 reads
#37
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Genius and Heroin

Genius and Heroin: Creativity, Obsession and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages
  • Michael Largo
21 read
#38
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
  • Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
3.4316 reads
#39
Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
  • Rebecca Romney
  • J.P. Romney
42 reads
#40
A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
  • Robert Evans
31 read
#41
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
  • Daniel James Brown
4.2553 reads
#42
Just my type
Just my type
  • Simon Garfield
3.8441 reads
#43
Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
  • Andrew Scull
00 reads
#44
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
  • Sam Kean
3.9420 reads
#45
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
  • Lisa Morton
42 reads
#46
Dead Mountain
Dead Mountain
  • Donnie Eichar
3.7439 reads
#47
Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
  • Kevin Fong
42 reads
#48
Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground
Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground
  • Michael Moynihan
  • Didrik Soderlind
3.713 reads
#49
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
  • Sydnee McElroy
  • Justin McElroy
3.6714 reads
#50
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
  • Thomas Morris
3.333 reads
#51
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
  • M. T. Anderson
4.4410 reads
#52
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
  • Ian Mortimer
4.178 reads
#53
Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations
Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations
  • Olivier Le Carrer
32 reads
#54
Shady characters
Shady characters
  • Keith Houston
411 reads
#55
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
  • Richard Hollingham
3.86 reads
#56
Vaccinated
Vaccinated
  • Paul A. Offit
3.66 reads
#57
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
  • Kevin Hazzard
3.52 reads
#58
Get Well Soon
Get Well Soon
  • Jennifer Wright
51 read
#59
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Pox

Pox: Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis
  • Deborah Hayden
00 reads
#60
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
  • Lisa Sanders
3.311 reads
#61
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Shocked

Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
  • David Casarett
41 read
#62
The Psychopath Test
The Psychopath Test
  • Jon Ronson
3.74148 reads
#63
Emergency!: True Stories from the Nation's ERs
Emergency!: True Stories from the Nation's ERs
  • Mark Brown
31 read
#64
Fascinomas - Fascinating Medical Mysteries
Fascinomas - Fascinating Medical Mysteries
  • Clifton K. Meador
33 reads
#65
Maximum Insecurity: A Doctor in the Supermax
Maximum Insecurity: A Doctor in the Supermax
  • William Wright
43 reads
#66
The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases
The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases
  • Gary Small
  • Gigi Vorgan
3.52 reads
#67
Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail
Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail
  • William Wright
00 reads
#68
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Weekends at Bellevue

Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
  • Julie Holland
3.26 reads
#69
Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance
Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance
  • Mike Scardino
41 read
#70
Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
  • Janice Hudson
10 reads
#71
Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
  • Caroline Burau
00 reads
#72
Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
  • Jacob Tomsky
3.728 reads
#73
The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop
  • Steve Osborne
3.677 reads
#74
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
  • Allie Brosh
4.22361 reads
#75
Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks
Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks
  • Andrea Lankford
3.58 reads
#76
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year With the Criminally Insane
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year With the Criminally Insane
  • Stephen Seager
3.52 reads
#77
Nature noir
Nature noir
  • Jordan Fisher Smith
2.673 reads
#78
Cruising Attitude
Cruising Attitude
  • Heather Poole
2.638 reads
#79
Based on a True Story: A memoir
Based on a True Story: A memoir
  • Norm Macdonald
3.7451 reads
#80
The Dead Janitors Club: Pathetically True Tales of a Crime Scene Cleanup King
The Dead Janitors Club: Pathetically True Tales of a Crime Scene Cleanup King
  • Jeff Klima
11 read
#81
Behind the Badge: A Policeman's Legacy
Behind the Badge: A Policeman's Legacy
  • Michael Cover
51 read
#82
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Patrolling the Heart of the West

Patrolling the Heart of the West: True Tales of a Nevada State Trooper
  • Steve Raabe
00 reads
#83
I Work At A Public Library
I Work At A Public Library
  • Gina Sheridan
3.6818 reads
#84
Nothing But The Truth (Almost): Mostly True Stories from a LAPD Detective of The Year
Nothing But The Truth (Almost): Mostly True Stories from a LAPD Detective of The Year
  • Paul Bishop
11 read
#85
Grimoires
Grimoires
  • Owen Davies
00 reads
#86
American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries
American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries
  • Susan Fair
3.254 reads
#87
Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
  • Melissa Milgrom
31 read
#88
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Blood Work

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
  • Holly Tucker
2.673 reads
#89
Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear
Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear
  • Margee Kerr
34 reads
#90
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Headstrong

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
  • Rachel Swaby
01 read
#91
Packing for Mars
Packing for Mars
  • Mary Roach
4.01139 reads
#92
Death from the Skies!
Death from the Skies!
  • Philip Plait
4.1812 reads
#93
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
  • Lindsey Fitzharris
4.2248 reads
#94
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Life
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Life
  • Joshua Piven
  • David Borgenicht
31 read
#95
The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
  • Joshua Piven
  • David Borgenicht
01 read
#96
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The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook

The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel
  • Joshua Piven
  • David Borgenicht
31 read
#97
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Work
  • Joshua Piven
  • David Borgenicht
00 reads
#98
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
  • Mark Manson
3.591,264 reads
#99
Apocalypse Culture
Apocalypse Culture
    32 reads
    #100
    City of Evil: The truth about Adelaide's strange and violent underbelly
    City of Evil: The truth about Adelaide's strange and violent underbelly
    • Sean Fewster
    21 read
    #101
    Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
    Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
    • Tori Telfer
    3.5936 reads