What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Macabre but lighthearted non-fiction books
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Cultish: The Language of FanaticismDancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny
Joe Gould's Teeth
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Spoiler Alert: You're Gonna Die
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
This list features some titles about "weird" subjects: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...I have read The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses and want to read Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs
There is also Necropolis: London and Its Dead (haven't read it yet)
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and RecoveryWhy Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of LanguageFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything and sequels
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Because Internet doesn't fit your macabre theme, though!
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure EverythingThe Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
Join Me!
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
The Icepick Surgeon
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
All That Remains: A Life in Death
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the PenisThe Porcelain God: A Social History of the Toilet
Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil by Jonathan Maberry.And, I haven't read these yet, but The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester and
It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright.
What's the Name of That Book???
Books mentioned in this topic
Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus (other topics)The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (other topics)
It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History (other topics)
Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-ass Enemies of Evil (other topics)
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul (other topics)
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I'm open to all topics, except celebrities, music or sports, but I'd prefer them concentrating on a theme rather than something specific, i.e I don't want to read a book only about the life and capture of Ted Bundy, but I'd be happy to read a book about the history of forensic investigation or criminal psychology.
Any suggestions, no matter how niche providing they're damned weird, are welcome.