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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.56 — 249 ratings — published 2009
The Voynich Manuscript (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,056 ratings — published 1438
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 196,764 ratings — published 2023
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,109 ratings — published 2024
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,684 ratings — published 2023
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,402 ratings — published 2009
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 22,124 ratings — published 2017
Afterlives of the Saints (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 172 ratings — published 2012
Waagstukken (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,137 ratings — published 2019
Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 323 ratings — published
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 436,022 ratings — published 2017
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 108,807 ratings — published 2009
Augustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,310 ratings — published 1972
Strange History: Mysterious Artifacts, Macabre Legends, Boneheaded Blunders & Mind-Blowing Facts (Strange Series)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 391 ratings — published 2016
The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,839 ratings — published 2020
I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.27 — 873 ratings — published 2019
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,059 ratings — published 2018
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 10,333 ratings — published 2016
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,719 ratings — published 2017
Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,379 ratings — published 2012
The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 161 ratings — published 2002
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,964 ratings — published 2019
A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.46 — 879 ratings — published 2008
How to Speak Furniture With an Antique American Accent: Buying, Selling and Appraisal Tips Plus Price Guides (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 1991
Thrilling Thieves: Liars, Cheats, and Cons Who Changed History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 115 ratings — published 2017
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,205 ratings — published 1995
From Ritual to Romance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 663 ratings — published 1920
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,815 ratings — published 1970
The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt: A Guide to the Sacred Places of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 74 ratings — published 1985
You are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes, and Cultural Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,066 ratings — published 2001
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,146 ratings — published 2003
Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 327 ratings — published 1998
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,213 ratings — published 1995
The White Headhunter: The Story of a 19th-Century Sailor Who Survived a South Seas Heart of Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.70 — 92 ratings — published 2002
Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.52 — 52 ratings — published 2000
Lord High Executioner: An Unshamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as strange-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 194 ratings — published 1996
“Briery Swamp slept. And May Ellen Bird, only a baby after all, who did not know the strange history of her town or even the name of it yet, was blissfully unaware that it slept with one eye open.”
― May Bird and the Ever After
― May Bird and the Ever After
