The Morbidly Curious Book Club 2025 Challenge

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75 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










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

Challenge Books

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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
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

9 hours, 51 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction health memoir emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
Out Cold: A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia by Philip Jaekl

Out Cold: A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia

Philip Jaekl

8 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction health history science technology informative medium-paced
All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson

All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

Kate Winkler Dawson

9 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime dark informative medium-paced
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
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