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Goodreads Morbid Curiosity Nonfiction

A recent addition to Listopia on Goodreads. It seems that a gruesome pun is almost obligatory for a book's title in this area.
I am curious to see how much interest there is in this topic among List Challengers. Having performed 100 or so postmortems in my professional career, I'm largely over detailed descriptions of forensic procedures myself. Mostly the background of the deceased is just plain sad. However I still think the history of medicine is quite intriguing.
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Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach)
Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers
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Mary Roach
From Here to Eternity (Caitlin Doughty)
From Here to Eternity
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Caitlin Doughty
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From the Crematory (Caitlin Doughty)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From the Crematory
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Caitlin Doughty
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster (Sarah Krasnostein)
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
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Sarah Krasnostein
The Devil in White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Erik Larson)
The Devil in White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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Erik Larson
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Lindsey Fitzharris)
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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Lindsey Fitzharris
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime (Judith Flanders)
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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Judith Flanders
The Lady and Her Monsters (Montillo, Roseanne)
The Lady and Her Monsters
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Montillo, Roseanne
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (Colin Dickey)
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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Colin Dickey
Morgue (Vincent Dimaio)
Morgue
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Vincent Dimaio
Teasing Secrets From the Dead (Emily Craig)
Teasing Secrets From the Dead
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Emily Craig
Silent Witnesses (Nigel McCrery)
Silent Witnesses
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Nigel McCrery
Mortal Evidence: The Forensics Behind Nine Shocking Cases (Cyril H. Wecht, Mark Curriden , Greg Saitz)
Mortal Evidence: The Forensics Behind Nine Shocking Cases
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Cyril H. Wecht, Mark Curriden , Greg Saitz
Bodies We've Buried (Jarrett Hallcox, Amy Welch)
Bodies We've Buried
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Jarrett Hallcox, Amy Welch
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud (Elizabeth Greenwood)
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
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Elizabeth Greenwood
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries (Marilyn Johnson)
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
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Marilyn Johnson
The Royal Art of Poison (Eleanor Herman)
The Royal Art of Poison
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Eleanor Herman
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession (David Grann)
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
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David Grann
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Melinek Judy)
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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Melinek Judy
Death's Acre (William Bass)
Death's Acre
20
William Bass
Beyond the Body Farm (William M. Bass)
Beyond the Body Farm
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William M. Bass
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot
Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them) (Sallie Tisdale)
Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them)
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Sallie Tisdale
Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine (Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz)
Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
The Sawbones Book: The Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine (Dr. Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy)
The Sawbones Book: The Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine
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Dr. Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Lydia Kang)
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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Lydia Kang
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? (Caitlin Doughty)
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
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Caitlin Doughty
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work and Writings of Dr. Spencer (E. B. Hudspeth)
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work and Writings of Dr. Spencer
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E. B. Hudspeth
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer (Kate Summerscale)
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
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Kate Summerscale
All That Remains (Professor Sue Black)
All That Remains
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Professor Sue Black
Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death (John Bateson)
Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
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John Bateson
Unnatural Causes (Richard Shepherd)
Unnatural Causes
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Richard Shepherd
Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office (Shiya Ribowsky, Tom Shachtman)
Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office
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Shiya Ribowsky, Tom Shachtman
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life (Caleb Wilde)
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
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Caleb Wilde
Dead Men Do Tell Tales (William R Maples)
Dead Men Do Tell Tales
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William R Maples
Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked? (Robert D. Webster)
Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?
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Robert D. Webster
Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths (Stefan Timmermans)
Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
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Stefan Timmermans
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