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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.21 — 113,676 ratings — published 2014
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,194 ratings — published 2003
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,007,192 ratings — published 2001
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.29 — 48,755 ratings — published 2017
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,670 ratings — published 2022
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,846 ratings — published 2019
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,631 ratings — published 2017
The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.75 — 121,371 ratings — published 2022
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.77 — 490,728 ratings — published 2017
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,211 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.09 — 215,399 ratings — published 2000
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,139,273 ratings — published 1992
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,759 ratings — published 1989
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,186 ratings — published 2002
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.30 — 24,289 ratings — published 2017
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.15 — 199,782 ratings — published 2016
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.27 — 29,376 ratings — published 2014
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,885 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,021,500 ratings — published 1890
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,492,378 ratings — published 2002
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,795 ratings — published 2017
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,818 ratings — published 2022
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,343 ratings — published 2022
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,539 ratings — published 2005
Little Lost Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,043 ratings — published 1995
Gone at Midnight: The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.18 — 1,657 ratings — published 2020
On the Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,253 ratings — published 2010
The Killing of Julia Wallace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.00 — 66 ratings — published 1969
On the House: The Bizarre Killing of Michael Malloy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.92 — 96 ratings — published 2005
Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,228 ratings — published 1983
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 115,987 ratings — published 1980
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.46 — 283 ratings — published 2016
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,988 ratings — published 2021
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.85 — 921,342 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,577,069 ratings — published 1915
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,902,586 ratings — published 2012
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,896,365 ratings — published 2010
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,590 ratings — published 1989
A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,413 ratings — published 2010
The Girl in the Leaves (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,057 ratings — published 2012
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.03 — 733,847 ratings — published 1995
When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,461 ratings — published 2011
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.53 — 113,289 ratings — published 2022
Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,276 ratings — published 1990
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,915 ratings — published 2017
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,688 ratings — published 2017
Killing Women: The True Story of Serial Killer Don Miller's Reign of Terror (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.66 — 522 ratings — published
Cruel Sacrifice (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,483 ratings — published 1994
Sole Survivor: The Inspiring True Story of Coming Face to Face with the Infamous Railroad Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 738 ratings — published
“It's just life, Will. It'll be over before we know it.”
― Five Feet Apart
― Five Feet Apart
“If this is the book I think it is... I'm relatively certain it's human.'
A hot, sour feeling rose in the back of Esther's throat. 'What do you mean, human?'
'I mean the thread looks like it could be a combination of hair and sinew. The glue is likely rendered collagen.' He pinched the cover between thumb and forefinger. 'The leather's probably human skin.'
'Okay,' Collins said, 'great, well, if you need me, I'll be outside screaming.”
― Ink Blood Sister Scribe
A hot, sour feeling rose in the back of Esther's throat. 'What do you mean, human?'
'I mean the thread looks like it could be a combination of hair and sinew. The glue is likely rendered collagen.' He pinched the cover between thumb and forefinger. 'The leather's probably human skin.'
'Okay,' Collins said, 'great, well, if you need me, I'll be outside screaming.”
― Ink Blood Sister Scribe
