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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.21 — 113,668 ratings — published 2014
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.55 — 152 ratings — published
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,180 ratings — published 2003
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,007,180 ratings — published 2001
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.29 — 48,751 ratings — published 2017
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,670 ratings — published 2022
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,845 ratings — published 2019
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,631 ratings — published 2017
The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.75 — 121,355 ratings — published 2022
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.77 — 490,574 ratings — published 2017
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,211 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.09 — 215,374 ratings — published 2000
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,139,137 ratings — published 1992
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,758 ratings — published 1989
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,186 ratings — published 2002
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.30 — 24,286 ratings — published 2017
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.15 — 199,761 ratings — published 2016
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.27 — 29,373 ratings — published 2014
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,885 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,021,336 ratings — published 1890
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,492,353 ratings — published 2002
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,791 ratings — published 2017
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,816 ratings — published 2022
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,342 ratings — published 2022
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,539 ratings — published 2005
Little Lost Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,043 ratings — published 1995
Gone at Midnight: The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.18 — 1,657 ratings — published 2020
On the Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,251 ratings — published 2010
The Killing of Julia Wallace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.00 — 66 ratings — published 1969
On the House: The Bizarre Killing of Michael Malloy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.92 — 96 ratings — published 2005
Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,228 ratings — published 1983
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 115,980 ratings — published 1980
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.46 — 283 ratings — published 2016
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,985 ratings — published 2021
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.85 — 921,279 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,576,937 ratings — published 1915
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,902,415 ratings — published 2012
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,896,110 ratings — published 2010
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,587 ratings — published 1989
A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,411 ratings — published 2010
The Girl in the Leaves (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,057 ratings — published 2012
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.03 — 733,557 ratings — published 1995
When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,461 ratings — published 2011
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.53 — 113,279 ratings — published 2022
Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,275 ratings — published 1990
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,915 ratings — published 2017
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,688 ratings — published 2017
Killing Women: The True Story of Serial Killer Don Miller's Reign of Terror (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.66 — 522 ratings — published
Cruel Sacrifice (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,483 ratings — published 1994
Sole Survivor: The Inspiring True Story of Coming Face to Face with the Infamous Railroad Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 738 ratings — published
“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”
― Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
― Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
