Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin DoughtyQuackery by Lydia KangStiff by Mary RoachFrom Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtyWill My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals ... by Caitlin Doughty
Non-Fiction Books for The Morbidly Curious
2nd out of 69 books — 31 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
841st out of 4,065 books — 2,129 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
488th out of 1,833 books — 2,224 voters

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonSay Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Thinging
57th out of 1,177 books — 41 voters
This is Going to Hurt by Adam KayThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksWhy We Sleep by Matthew WalkerThe Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Best Popular Medicine Books on Goodreads
123rd out of 129 books — 39 voters

The Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodProject Hail Mary by Andy WeirLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Love Theorem by Camilla Isley
[ATY 2023] Science!
112th out of 543 books — 141 voters
Quiet by Susan CainQuidditch Through the Ages by J.K. RowlingQ is for Quarry by Sue GraftonThe Queen of the Damned by Anne RiceThe Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Titles That Begin With Q
26th out of 429 books — 69 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachWorking Stiff by Judy MelinekSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyThe Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor HermanThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
morbid curiosity nonfiction
24th out of 251 books — 21 voters
Get Well Soon by Jennifer   WrightThe Butchering Art by Lindsey FitzharrisDr. Mütter's Marvels by Cristin O'Keefe AptowiczThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah BlumThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Medical History & Similar
20th out of 193 books — 40 voters

Worst Canadian Stories, Vol. 1 by Crad KilodneyGet Well Soon by Jennifer   WrightAnthology of Third-World Email Scams by Michael N. MarcusSix-gun in cheek by Bill PronziniViva Coleman Francis! by Damian Westfall
"Worst"
34th out of 127 books — 6 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah BlumSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyThe Ravenmaster by Christopher SkaifeSpook by Mary Roach
Peculiar Books
19th out of 97 books — 9 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
7690th out of 15,632 books — 17,943 voters
Babel by R.F. KuangFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBeyond the Wand by Tom FeltonAnatomy by Dana SchwartzBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
52 Book Club 2023: #1 A Book With A Subtitle
743rd out of 1,226 books — 194 voters

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. RowlingSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Books You Must Read!
7331st out of 11,769 books — 7,568 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovVampire Academy by Richelle MeadThe Bridge to Rembrandt by Nelson K. Foley
Must Reads - My Version
3767th out of 6,465 books — 1,303 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasGlass Houses by Louise PennyMagpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
2017 Librarian Recommended Books
84th out of 109 books — 195 voters
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyBlue Highways by William Least Heat-MoonMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
The "Way" The Gravy Stains
44th out of 812 books — 21 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovQuantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1 by Kenneth Schmitt
Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
1210th out of 4,101 books — 1,501 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsTwilight by Stephenie MeyerHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Books That Kept You Up At Night
3121st out of 6,717 books — 1,753 voters

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodTurtles All the Way Down by John Green
What Women Born in the 90's Have Read in 2018
335th out of 2,421 books — 316 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovOutliers by Malcolm GladwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
1084th out of 4,122 books — 2,100 voters

Quackery by Lydia KangWhat Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Your Lower Back by Bill YanceyThe Harangues, or speeches, of several celebrated quack-docto... by AnonymousBeing Done Good by Edward Burcham LentPink Pills for Pale People by F. William Saul
Quackaduceus
1st out of 106 books — 3 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsUna historia de ayer by Sergio CoboCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
Books I Will Never Ever Forget (YA Fiction and Everything)
4378th out of 7,572 books — 2,246 voters

From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyGet Well Soon by Jennifer   WrightThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeePandora's Lab by Paul A. Offit
Best Science History Books
22nd out of 90 books — 63 voters
Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die by Loren RhoadsFrom Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtyThe Witch by Ronald HuttonAtlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer
Morbid Must-Reads - Fall 2017
6th out of 13 books — 9 voters

The Origins Of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtJust Kids by Patti SmithWomen in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe 1200-1550 by Helen M. JewellThe Warrior Queen by Joanna ArmanHeroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly
Non-fiction read in 2018
33rd out of 314 books — 15 voters
The Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe Salt Eaters by Toni Cade BambaraWhat Caused the Civil War? by Edward L. AyersMy Kind of Place by Susan OrleanGeorgia's Confederate Monuments and Cemeteries by David N. Wiggins
Books I had planned to read but now I never will!
11th out of 15 books — 2 voters

Death, Taxes, and Turduckens by Jens Kurt HeyckeBad Blood by John CarreyrouPlaying Dead by Elizabeth  GreenwoodThe Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLeanThe Big Short by Michael   Lewis
Scams, Scandals and Frauds
160th out of 181 books — 26 voters
On Learning to Heal by Ed CohenThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Wounded Storyteller by Arthur W. FrankThe Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun WangIllness by Havi Carel
Illness As Narrative
81st out of 228 books — 19 voters

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