Biographies of the Weird
6. 
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
by:
George Pendle
3.98 avg rating — 1,579 ratings 6. 
10. 
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
by:
Greg Sestero
4.29 avg rating — 34,391 ratings 10. 
Tolkien: How an Obscure Oxford Professor Wrote The Hobbit and Became the Most Beloved Author of the Century
by:
Devin Brown
4.11 avg rating — 177 ratings 12. 
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook
by:
Ben Mezrich
3.59 avg rating — 16,994 ratings 
17. 
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.36 avg rating — 36,113 ratings 17. 
King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea
by:
Blaine Harden
3.70 avg rating — 418 ratings 17. 
Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner
by:
Judy Melinek
4.26 avg rating — 26,529 ratings 
24. 
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
by:
Mitchell Zuckoff
3.93 avg rating — 1,197 ratings 
24. 
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture
by:
Paul Krassner
4.05 avg rating — 146 ratings 27. 
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
by:
Fawn M. Brodie
4.16 avg rating — 3,298 ratings 27. 
Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
by:
Albert Podell
3.67 avg rating — 1,723 ratings 27. 
The Complete Lunch Box: The Life and Works of Deacon Lunch Book, a Cornucopia of Southern Culture
by:
Tim Ruttenber
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 27. 
The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner 3.78 avg rating — 281 ratings
31. 
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News-and Divided a Country
by:
Gabriel Sherman
3.88 avg rating — 1,878 ratings 31. 
Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead
by:
Bill Griffith
4.12 avg rating — 475 ratings 
36. 
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating — 44,512 ratings 
36. 
Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonist
by:
Michael Maslin
3.29 avg rating — 51 ratings 39. 
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
by:
Mary S. Lovell
3.91 avg rating — 13,809 ratings 39. 
The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius
by:
Jennifer George
4.10 avg rating — 93 ratings 41. 
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
by:
Zac Bissonnette
3.91 avg rating — 2,751 ratings 
41. 
I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists
by:
Richard Gehr
3.49 avg rating — 163 ratings 44. 
Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World
by:
Gary Lachman
3.43 avg rating — 566 ratings 
44. 
Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America
by:
Peter Washington
3.67 avg rating — 237 ratings 47. 
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by:
David Kushner
4.29 avg rating — 19,679 ratings 
47. 
Howard Finster, Stranger from Another World: Man of Visions Now on This Earth
by:
Howard Finster
4.38 avg rating — 40 ratings 50. 
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by:
Robert M. Pirsig
3.78 avg rating — 241,477 ratings 
50. 
The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary
by:
Jenny Uglow
3.60 avg rating — 211 ratings 53. 
Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story Of L. Ron Hubbard
by:
Russell Miller
4.14 avg rating — 1,934 ratings 
53. 
Holding On: Dreamers, Visionaries, Eccentrics, and Other American Heroes
by:
Dave Isay
4.09 avg rating — 67 ratings 56. 
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
by:
Bart D. Ehrman
4.10 avg rating — 7,405 ratings 
56. 
Envisioning Howard Finster: The Religion and Art of a Stranger from Another World 3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
59. 
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape 3.77 avg rating — 40,867 ratings
59. 
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri-La
by:
Alec Le Sueur
3.92 avg rating — 1,226 ratings 
62. 
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
by:
Janet Reitman
3.87 avg rating — 9,538 ratings 62. 
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
by:
Jeffrey Tayler
3.80 avg rating — 1,016 ratings 62. 
Howard Finster: The Early Years : A Private Portrait of America's Premier Folk Artist 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
65. 
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?"
by:
P.J. O'Rourke
3.92 avg rating — 3,969 ratings 67. 
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
by:
Elissa Wall
3.95 avg rating — 31,197 ratings 67. 
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by:
Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings 69. 
The Importance Of Being Ernest: The Life of Actor Jim Varney
by:
Justin Lloyd
4.24 avg rating — 228 ratings 69. 
71. 
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
by:
Steve Inskeep
3.93 avg rating — 1,829 ratings 
73. 
The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno & the Network Battle for the Night
by:
Bill Carter
4.18 avg rating — 2,557 ratings 73. 
Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World
by:
Harry Thompson
4.04 avg rating — 1,566 ratings 75. 
A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
by:
Jon Atack
3.99 avg rating — 513 ratings 
77. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,465 ratings 
79. 
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by:
Kai Bird
4.31 avg rating — 55,209 ratings 
81. 
A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of The Smiths
by:
Tony Fletcher
4.05 avg rating — 1,217 ratings 81. 
87. 
Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology
by:
Marc Headley
4.04 avg rating — 1,520 ratings 87. 
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
by:
Kristine Barnett
4.09 avg rating — 7,768 ratings 
96. 
A Wilder Rose: Rose Wilder Lane, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Their Little Houses 3.63 avg rating — 3,456 ratings
98. 
The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
by:
David Brock
3.84 avg rating — 414 ratings 