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The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America
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The Wedge: Evolution, Consciousness, Stress and the Key to Human Resilience
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The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding
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The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
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Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
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The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
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3.65 avg rating — 1,859 ratings
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them
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2.96 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
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3.61 avg rating — 5,347 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
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4.07 avg rating — 4,205 ratings
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The Book of Accidents
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3.71 avg rating — 28,835 ratings
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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4.27 avg rating — 27,548 ratings
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Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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3.90 avg rating — 655 ratings
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Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
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4.14 avg rating — 2,859 ratings
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
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The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,605 ratings
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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The Facemaker
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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
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4.40 avg rating — 4,417 ratings
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The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History
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3.77 avg rating — 181 ratings
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We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
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All the Living and the Dead
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Pump: A Natural History of the Heart
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3.81 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
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3.82 avg rating — 813 ratings
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Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural
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3.54 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
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4.23 avg rating — 3,775 ratings
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The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health
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4.26 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Relax, Dammit!: A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety
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3.71 avg rating — 984 ratings
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On Getting Off: sex and philosophy
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