The Weirdest Nonfiction Books I've Ever Read

And this book tells the absolutely unbelievable true story of how a group of people came together to fight for a dying species, the Florida Panther that absolutely had the odds stacked against it with ever-worsening habitat loss and dangers all around it -- everything from people wielding guns to cars flying down highways.

So this is a highly specific book about a highly specific time in this author's life, but I cannot overstate just how cozy of a book this is. I still have the best memories of curling up with this one.

You might not ever think pigeons are beautiful, but this book absolutely is.

Reading about this whole underworld will have you struggling to believe that what you're reading is actually nonfiction, but believe it or not, this stuff happened.

You learn about those people in this book, but you also get a taste for why they're so hyped about mushrooms because the author divulges some really interesting information about mushrooms all along the way.

This book is such a happy marriage of hard science and social science. You may scoff at this title, but you will learn so much by reading this.

So if you're a fan of horror or the paranormal and you're looking to get into reading more nonfiction, may I present you with this gateway drug of a book about a lethal virus?

But by far, the single most interesting chapter in this entire book is, surprisingly enough, about cans. As in cans of foodstuffs.

And she picked up something that I tell you she would have had no way of knowing besides picking it up in the way I wrote my name. So I recommend this and then some.

Caitlin Doughty respectfully and carefully answers those questions in this book and you don't need to be a precocious youngster in order to enjoy her responses. If you are a fan of physical books, I can tell you that the illustrations in this book really do add something.