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If you loved Suicide & Spirits by Troy Taylor, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI), Occultism, 19th Century, and Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies).

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Murder by Gaslight — Troy Taylor

Murder by Gaslight

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • Occultism • 19th Century

American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago — Dominic A. Pacyga

American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago

Dominic A. Pacyga

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Valentine T. McGillycuddy Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux — Candy Vyvey Moulton

Valentine T. McGillycuddy Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux

Candy Vyvey Moulton

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Westward We Came A Norwegian Immigrant’s Story, 1866-1898 — Harold Berg Kildahl

Westward We Came A Norwegian Immigrant’s Story, 1866-1898

Harold Berg Kildahl

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Parading Patriotism Independence Day Celebrations in the Urban Midwest, 1826-1876 — Adam Criblez

Parading Patriotism Independence Day Celebrations in the Urban Midwest, 1826-1876

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

A Touch of Cleveland History Stories from the First 200 Years — Bob Rich

A Touch of Cleveland History Stories from the First 200 Years

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Three Tenant Families — James Agee

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Three Tenant Families

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America — Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Our People are Warlike Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-front Mobilization — Allen Christopher York

Our People are Warlike Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-front Mobilization

Allen Christopher York

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Sundays at Sinai A Jewish Congregation in Chicago — Tobias Brinkmann

Sundays at Sinai A Jewish Congregation in Chicago

Tobias Brinkmann

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Chicago’s Great Fire The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City — Carl S. Smith

Chicago’s Great Fire The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Children’s Blizzard — David Laskin

The Children’s Blizzard

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

City of Big Shoulders A History of Chicago — Robert G. Spinney

City of Big Shoulders A History of Chicago

Robert G. Spinney

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Surviving Wounded Knee The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory — David W. Grua

Surviving Wounded Knee The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Devil in the White City — Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Pioneers The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West — David McCullough

The Pioneers The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

David McCullough

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850 — Malcolm J. Rohrbough

Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850

Malcolm J. Rohrbough

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Inside the World’s Fair of 1904 Exploring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition — Elana V. Fox

Inside the World’s Fair of 1904 Exploring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Earth Is All That Lasts Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation — Mark Lee Gardner

The Earth Is All That Lasts Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

Mark Lee Gardner

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Over The Earth I Come The Great Sioux Uprising Of 1862 — Duane Schultz

Over The Earth I Come The Great Sioux Uprising Of 1862

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Entertaining Satan Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England — John Demos

Entertaining Satan Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

Themes: Occultism • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • State & Local

Haunted Fairhaven — Taimi Dunn Gorman

Haunted Fairhaven

Taimi Dunn Gorman

Themes: Occultism • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • State & Local

A History of Spiritualism and the Occult in Salem The Rise of Witch City — Maggi Smith-Dalton

A History of Spiritualism and the Occult in Salem The Rise of Witch City

Maggi Smith-Dalton

Themes: Occultism • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • State & Local

Haunted Chippewa Valley — Devon Bell

Haunted Chippewa Valley

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • State & Local

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Suicide & Spirits by Troy Taylor. Connected by Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI), Occultism, 19th Century. Authors featured include Troy Taylor, Dominic A. Pacyga, Candy Vyvey Moulton, Harold Berg Kildahl, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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