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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 243,403 ratings
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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4.30 avg rating — 47,396 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.21 avg rating — 110,307 ratings
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
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3.90 avg rating — 30,644 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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4.30 avg rating — 23,207 ratings
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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3.41 avg rating — 4,455 ratings
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The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
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3.55 avg rating — 1,464 ratings
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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3.73 avg rating — 10,804 ratings
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Morgue: A Life in Death
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3.85 avg rating — 3,052 ratings
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Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
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4.10 avg rating — 2,905 ratings
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Silent Witnesses
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3.84 avg rating — 1,273 ratings
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Mortal Evidence: The Forensics Behind Nine Shocking Cases
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3.96 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Bodies We've Buried: Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World's Top CSI Training School
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3.96 avg rating — 711 ratings
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Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
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3.45 avg rating — 3,219 ratings
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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
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3.42 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
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3.99 avg rating — 5,175 ratings
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The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
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3.79 avg rating — 10,851 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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4.27 avg rating — 28,234 ratings
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Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
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4.23 avg rating — 14,519 ratings
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Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
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4.23 avg rating — 8,005 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 814,181 ratings
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Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
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4.14 avg rating — 2,350 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 8,441 ratings
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The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,883 ratings
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,133 ratings
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
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4.12 avg rating — 48,523 ratings
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The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
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3.60 avg rating — 8,484 ratings
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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
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3.48 avg rating — 6,731 ratings
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All That Remains: A Life in Death
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4.16 avg rating — 16,076 ratings
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The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
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4.07 avg rating — 2,584 ratings
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Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
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4.32 avg rating — 49,408 ratings
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Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office
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4.03 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
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Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
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3.76 avg rating — 2,633 ratings
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
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4.05 avg rating — 6,655 ratings
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Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?: A Funeral Director Reflects on 30 Years of Serving the Living and the Deceased
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3.66 avg rating — 958 ratings
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Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
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3.76 avg rating — 225 ratings
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