Nonfiction that doesn’t appear on every list
1. 
Hip Pocket Sleaze: The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks
by:
John Harrison
3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square
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Bill Landis
4.15 avg rating — 381 ratings 4. 
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A Timeline of Australian Food: From Mutton to Masterchef
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Jan O'Connell
3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings 9. 
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
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Roman Mars
4.03 avg rating — 7,319 ratings 9. 
Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
by:
Laurie Zaleski
4.28 avg rating — 8,720 ratings 9. 
Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild
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Susanne Reber
4.49 avg rating — 601 ratings 9. 
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World 4.09 avg rating — 2,780 ratings
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Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything
by:
Adam Rutherford
4.11 avg rating — 1,721 ratings 13. 
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Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
by:
Greg Jenner
4.11 avg rating — 2,425 ratings 
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The Big Book of Little Criminals: 63 True Tales of the World's Most Incompetent Jailbirds! (Factoid Books)
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DC Comics
3.82 avg rating — 112 ratings 17. 
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
by:
Amanda Montell
4.24 avg rating — 25,834 ratings 
25. 
This I Know: Marketing Lessons from Under the Influence
by:
Terry O'Reilly
4.43 avg rating — 708 ratings 25. 
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
by:
Stacey O'Brien
4.10 avg rating — 12,466 ratings 25. 
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Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
29. 
Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
by:
Matt Alt
4.18 avg rating — 3,065 ratings 
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The Big Book of Bad: The Best of the Worst of Everything (Factoid Books)
by:
Jonathan Vankin
4.01 avg rating — 150 ratings 
33. 
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
by:
Cary Elwes
4.18 avg rating — 73,031 ratings 
33. 
The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature
by:
Peter Mendelsund
3.93 avg rating — 349 ratings 33. 
St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers Edition 1.
by:
David Pringle
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 37. 
A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life
by:
Greg Jenner
3.74 avg rating — 2,655 ratings 
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Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
by:
Greg Jenner
3.80 avg rating — 3,275 ratings 41. 
Columbine Official Report: Columbine Review Commission: 2001
by:
Colorado
3.40 avg rating — 42 ratings 
45. 
Secrets of a Fashion Therapist: What You Can Learn Behind the Dressing Room Door
by:
Betty Halbreich
3.56 avg rating — 241 ratings 45. 
Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: The Lighter Side of Life As a Mother and Daughter
by:
Lisa Scottoline
3.77 avg rating — 1,976 ratings 
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Elle & Coach: Diabetes, the Fight for My Daughter's Life, and the Dog Who Changed Everything
by:
Stefany Shaheen
4.35 avg rating — 474 ratings 
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The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness 4.30 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Run, Ride, Sink or Swim: A Rookie's Year in Women's Triathlon
by:
Lucy Fry
3.66 avg rating — 267 ratings 
57. 
Women's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
61. 
Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
by:
Pete Nelson
3.91 avg rating — 2,048 ratings 61. 
Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830
by:
Franz J. Potter
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 
64. 
Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy 3.69 avg rating — 195 ratings
64. 
Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764–1897 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
68. 
Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
by:
Jason Fagone
3.41 avg rating — 180 ratings 
68. 
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
by:
John Barylick
4.37 avg rating — 1,221 ratings 
72. 
Sumo: A Thinking Fan's Guide to Japan's National Sport
by:
David Benjamin
3.64 avg rating — 94 ratings 72. 
Secret Service Dogs: The Heroes Who Protect the President of the United States
by:
Maria Goodavage
3.98 avg rating — 669 ratings 72. 
The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics
by:
Denis Kitchen
4.33 avg rating — 195 ratings 
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The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue
by:
David Sax
3.58 avg rating — 996 ratings 80. 
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health
by:
Rick Smith
3.86 avg rating — 1,679 ratings 80. 
Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and A 15-Year Search for Truth
by:
Scott James
4.25 avg rating — 846 ratings 
84. 
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Hallmark! Writing a Made-for-TV Christmas Movie: The Unofficial Guide
by:
Heather Hughes
4.66 avg rating — 76 ratings 84. 
88. 
Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater 3.79 avg rating — 2,174 ratings
88. 
The Particulars of Peter: Dance Lessons, DNA Tests, and Other Excuses to Hang Out with My Perfect Dog
by:
Kelly Conaboy
3.60 avg rating — 882 ratings 88. 
The Guerilla Art Kit: Everything You Need to Put Your Message Out into the World
by:
Keri Smith
4.13 avg rating — 1,058 ratings 88. 
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Life at Hamilton: Sometimes You Throw Away Your Shot, Only to Find Your Story
by:
Mike Anthony
3.96 avg rating — 444 ratings 92. 
Behind Beavis and Butt-Head/Are They 'Really Cool' or Ar They Really Jerks?
by:
Isaac E. Mozeson
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 92. 
Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
by:
David J. Skal
4.22 avg rating — 528 ratings 96. 
Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
by:
Sara Roahen
3.96 avg rating — 905 ratings 96. 
The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker
by:
Éric Liberge
3.46 avg rating — 275 ratings 96. 
Up Shit Creek: A Collection of Horrifyingly True Wilderness Toilet Misadventures
by:
Joe Lindsay
3.71 avg rating — 83 ratings 96. 
Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out
by:
Ruth Heholt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 100. 
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
by:
Chandler Burr
3.88 avg rating — 1,496 ratings