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Cult of Weird Book Club
1.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.22 avg rating — 104,628 ratings
2.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by:
Mary Roach
4.06 avg rating — 234,463 ratings
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Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items
by:
J.W. Ocker
3.70 avg rating — 3,342 ratings
4.
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
by:
Megan Rosenbloom
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,447 ratings
5.
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.30 avg rating — 45,188 ratings
6.
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
by:
Colin Dickey
3.74 avg rating — 9,983 ratings
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The Lake Michigan Mothman: High Strangeness in the Midwest
by:
Tobias Wayland
3.50 avg rating — 64 ratings
8.
The Art of the Occult: A Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic
by:
S. Elizabeth
4.21 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by:
Mary Roach
3.60 avg rating — 40,174 ratings
10.
Death: A Graveside Companion
by:
Joanna Ebenstein
4.48 avg rating — 352 ratings
10.
Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive
by:
Sue Henger
4.63 avg rating — 776 ratings
12.
The American Way of Death Revisited
by:
Jessica Mitford
3.97 avg rating — 2,582 ratings
13.
Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
by:
Paul Koudounaris
4.56 avg rating — 511 ratings
14.
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
by:
Lindsey Fitzharris
4.31 avg rating — 21,434 ratings
15.
Goatman: Flesh or Folklore?
by:
J. Nathan Couch
3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings
15.
The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
by:
Peter Manseau
3.45 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
17.
American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America
by:
Linda S. Godfrey
3.48 avg rating — 923 ratings
18.
The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin's Werewolf
by:
Linda S. Godfrey
3.95 avg rating — 333 ratings
19.
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
by:
Bess Lovejoy
3.84 avg rating — 2,083 ratings
20.
The Lost City of the Monkey God
by:
Douglas Preston
3.93 avg rating — 61,220 ratings
21.
Monsters In Print: A Collection Of Curious Creatures Known Mostly From Newspapers
by:
Adam Benedict
3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings
22.
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.13 avg rating — 46,332 ratings
23.
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us
by:
Paul Koudounaris
4.56 avg rating — 441 ratings
24.
Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs
by:
Paul Koudounaris
4.54 avg rating — 826 ratings
25.
The Victorian Book of the Dead
by:
Chris Woodyard
4.01 avg rating — 432 ratings
26.
Morbid Curiosities: Collections of the Uncommon and the Bizarre (Skulls, Mummified Body Parts, Taxidermy and more, remarkable, curious, macabre collections)
by:
Paul Gambino
4.23 avg rating — 464 ratings
27.
The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
by:
Colin Dickey
3.66 avg rating — 1,803 ratings
28.
The Big Book of Mars: From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, A Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet
by:
Marc Hartzman
3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings
29.
Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations
by:
Olivier Le Carrer
3.09 avg rating — 950 ratings
30.
199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die
by:
Loren Rhoads
4.24 avg rating — 454 ratings
31.
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
by:
Owen Beattie
4.10 avg rating — 3,534 ratings
32.
The Talking Dead: A Collection of Messages from Beyond the Veil, 1850s to 1920s
by:
Marc Hartzman
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
33.
As Above, So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930
by:
Lynne Adele
4.38 avg rating — 40 ratings