Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Night to Remember by Walter LordAlive by Piers Paul Read
Non-fiction Disaster Books
328 books — 328 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerThe Shining by Stephen  KingThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington IrvingThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates
My Halloween book list
153 books — 17 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Song of the Dodo by David QuammenThe Flight of the Iguana by David QuammenThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Best of Natural History
362 books — 69 voters

The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererLab Girl by Hope JahrenGathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nonfiction Books about Plants
436 books — 146 voters
H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanWesley the Owl by Stacey O'BrienThe Wild Birds by Emily StrelowSilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Books for Bird Lovers
534 books — 214 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Medical Microhistories
97 books — 91 voters
Life in Motion by Misty CopelandHolding On to the Air by Suzanne FarrellApollo's Angels by Jennifer HomansDancing on My Grave by Gelsey KirklandPrivate View by John Fraser
Best Non-fiction Books on Ballet
38 books — 23 voters

The Crucible by Arthur MillerThe Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine HoweSalem Possessed by Paul S. BoyerThe Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol F. KarlsenIn the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton
Salem
133 books — 52 voters
Mayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Voyage Long and Strange by Tony HorwitzJohn Adams by David McCulloughAlbion's Seed by David Hackett FischerThe Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
Colonial North America (nonfiction)
148 books — 58 voters


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