The Morbidly Curious Book Club 2025 Challenge

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10 participants (12 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Join The Morbidly Curious Book Club and participate in our 2025 reading year challenge!

Our line up:
January  - "All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind" by Kate Wrinkler Dawson










December - "The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels" By Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans 

Challenge Books

All books added
The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans

The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans

336 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction sociology emotional informative sad medium-paced
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

Rose George

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Colin Dickey

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history dark slow-paced
In the Mouth of the Wolf: The Death of Regina Martínez and the Press in Mexico by Katherine Corcoran

In the Mouth of the Wolf: The Death of Regina Martínez and the Press in Mexico

Katherine Corcoran

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End by Alua Arthur

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End

Alua Arthur

288 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction health memoir emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris

304 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography health history science dark informative reflective medium-paced
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

352 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction true crime adventurous informative sad medium-paced
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

303 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science dark funny informative medium-paced
Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias by Kevin Cook

Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias

Kevin Cook

288 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark emotional informative medium-paced
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science by Erika Engelhaupt

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Erika Engelhaupt

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction science funny informative fast-paced