The Morbidly Curious Book Club 2025 Challenge

themorbidlycuriousbookclub Host

98 participants (13 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

February - "Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector" by Amit Katwala

March - "Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science" by Erika Engelhaupt

April - "Waco Rising: David Koresh, The FBI, and the Birth of Modern Militias" by Kevin Cook

May - "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach

June - "Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail" by Andrea Lankford

July - "The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine" by Lindsey Fitzharris

August - "Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End" by Alua Arthur

September - "In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press" by Katherine Corcoran

October - "Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places" by Colin Dickey

November - "Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood" by Rose George

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

The Morbidly Curious Book Club 2025 Challenge

themorbidlycuriousbookclub Host

98 participants (13 books)

STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 31 Dec 2025

Overview

February - "Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector" by Amit Katwala

March - "Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science" by Erika Engelhaupt

April - "Waco Rising: David Koresh, The FBI, and the Birth of Modern Militias" by Kevin Cook

May - "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach

June - "Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail" by Andrea Lankford

July - "The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine" by Lindsey Fitzharris

August - "Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End" by Alua Arthur

September - "In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press" by Katherine Corcoran

October - "Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places" by Colin Dickey

November - "Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood" by Rose George

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

Challenge Books

All books added

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

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

303 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science dark funny 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 with Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illustrator)

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction science funny informative fast-paced

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Erika Engelhaupt with Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illustrator)

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction science funny informative fast-paced

Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector by Amit Katwala

Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
Amit Katwala

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector

Amit Katwala

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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