Looking for a new book, mostly interested in morbid nonfiction
My favorite books are Spillover (zoonotic disease), War Against the Weak (eugenics in America). I’ve familiar with most serial killers, genocides, and pandemics. Looking for something new. Any suggestions?
From here to eternity by Caitlin doughty. It’s about different death rituals in different cultures
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The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
“A historical account of the young women who painted watch dials with radium-laced paint in the early 20th century. The book details their glamorous jobs, the mysterious and fatal illnesses that followed (radium poisoning), and their fight for justice against the companies that denied responsibility. It is a story of corporate negligence, a groundbreaking class-action lawsuit, and the women’s resilience that ultimately led to vital workplace safety regulations.”
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by mary roach
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach.
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
Deadly Choices: How The Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul A. Offit
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, by Lindsey Fitzharris
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Katie Englehart, *The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die*
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – Caitlin Doughty. About working in a crematory
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The Batavia by Peter Fitzsimmons. About a lesser know Dutch shipwreck off the coast of Australia pre-colonisation. It’s a non-fiction historical narrative, but reads like a horror novel of just relentless murder with an adventure element. It is an extremely gripping and fun (for me, 400 years after the fact and not being murdered on a tiny little island by a ruthless dictator) read.
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From here to eternity by Caitlin doughty. It’s about different death rituals in different cultures
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
“A historical account of the young women who painted watch dials with radium-laced paint in the early 20th century. The book details their glamorous jobs, the mysterious and fatal illnesses that followed (radium poisoning), and their fight for justice against the companies that denied responsibility. It is a story of corporate negligence, a groundbreaking class-action lawsuit, and the women’s resilience that ultimately led to vital workplace safety regulations.”
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by mary roach
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach.
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
Deadly Choices: How The Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul A. Offit
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, by Lindsey Fitzharris
Katie Englehart, *The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die*
There’s a book club called Morbidly Curious. Here is the list of books they’ve read. [https://bookclubs.com/morbidly-curious-tacoma/already-read-books](https://bookclubs.com/morbidly-curious-tacoma/already-read-books)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – Caitlin Doughty. About working in a crematory
The Batavia by Peter Fitzsimmons. About a lesser know Dutch shipwreck off the coast of Australia pre-colonisation. It’s a non-fiction historical narrative, but reads like a horror novel of just relentless murder with an adventure element. It is an extremely gripping and fun (for me, 400 years after the fact and not being murdered on a tiny little island by a ruthless dictator) read.