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Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,706 ratings — published 2020
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,328 ratings — published 2014
Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,115 ratings — published 2003
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,006 ratings — published 2006
The American Way of Death Revisited (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,623 ratings — published 1963
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,203 ratings — published 2021
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,321 ratings — published 2022
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,101 ratings — published 2021
Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 264 ratings — published 2015
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.57 — 252 ratings — published 2009
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 46,327 ratings — published 2017
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 22,409 ratings — published 2017
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 10,547 ratings — published 2016
American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.49 — 953 ratings — published 2014
The History of the World According to Facebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,349 ratings — published 2011
Mental Floss Presents Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History's Naughtiest Bits (Mental Floss Presents)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 828 ratings — published 2005
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,234 ratings — published 2011
The Medici Giraffe and Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.60 — 280 ratings — published 2006
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,987 ratings — published 1976
Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History: The Truth from Colonial Times to World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.55 — 649 ratings — published 1988
Hollywood Hex: An Illustrated History of Cursed Movies (Creation Cinema Collection)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.43 — 42 ratings — published 1999
Detective Piggott's Casebook Famous True Crime Cases (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.43 — 49 ratings — published 2012
The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.56 — 575 ratings — published 2001
The Great American Songbook: Stories of the Standards (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2010
Mostly Rapscallions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 35 ratings — published 2008
Hidden History: Lost Civilizations, Secret Knowledge, and Ancient Mysteries (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 232 ratings — published 2007
Mental Floss: Scatterbrained (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 272 ratings — published 2006
Bizarre England: Discover the Country's Secrets and Surprises (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.65 — 489 ratings — published 2015
Hidden Britain: Secret Tunnels, Lost Chambers and Unknown Passageways (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published 2015
Bizarre Scotland (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.48 — 102 ratings — published 2014
Bizarre London: Discover the Capital's Secrets & Surprises (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.50 — 503 ratings — published 2013
Odd Wisconsin: Amusing, Perplexing, and Unlikely Stories from Wisconsin's Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.51 — 79 ratings — published 2007
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,805 ratings — published 1952
Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James l (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 345 ratings — published 1997
The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,172 ratings — published 2009
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 25,324 ratings — published 1998
Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painters and Sculptors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,497 ratings — published 2008
Secret Lives of Great Authors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,970 ratings — published 2008
Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the States (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 129 ratings — published 2007
The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.37 — 211 ratings — published 1993
Bangkok Babylon: The Real-Life Exploits Of Bangkok's Legendary Expatriates Are Often Stranger Than Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.36 — 195 ratings — published 2006
Wildfire (Hidden Legacy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 46,889 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 238,767 ratings — published 2003
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,805 ratings — published 2015
Is It True What They Say About Shakespeare? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 13 ratings — published 2007
The 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: History's Biggest Mysteries, Cover-Ups, and Cabals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.62 — 411 ratings — published 1994
Dead Men's Secrets: Tantalising Hints of a Lost Super Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 213 ratings — published 1986
Ancient Mysteries (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 422 ratings — published 1999
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 753,667 ratings — published 2003
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as weird-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 170,212 ratings — published 2010
