Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandEndurance by Alfred LansingInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best True Survival Stories
422 books — 547 voters
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Gene by Siddhartha MukherjeeBeing Mortal by Atul GawandeThe Panic Virus by Seth MnookinGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Science Based Medicine Recommends
133 books — 102 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachSmoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin DoughtyThe Undead by Dick TeresiWhack Job by Rachel McCarthy JamesSevered by Frances Larson
O Death
259 books — 19 voters

The Body in the Back Garden by Mark  WaddellBoard to Death by C.J.  ConnorMurder at Pirate's Cove by Josh LanyonMurder on Milverton Square by G.B. RalphThe Big Boys' Detective Agency by Stephen E. Stanley
Gay Cozy Mysteries
79 books — 61 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,119 books — 2,297 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachFrom Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtySmoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin DoughtyThe American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica MitfordAll That Remains by Sue Black
Mortuary Reads
68 books — 16 voters
Salt by Mark KurlanskyAt Home by Bill BrysonTHE AMERICAN TRANSLATOR by Ahmed AlshuwaikhatGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Histories of the Everyday
375 books — 402 voters



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