The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson - the story of the Great Migration, largely told through the lives of three migrants
Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies - biographies of European countries that no longer exist and are often barely remembered
Ace by Angela Chen - an asexual journalist talks to other aces and discusses how their orientation (and other marginalizations) affect their lives
The Unidentified by Colin Dickey - a history of pseudoscientific thinking (UFOs, cryptids, conspiracies, etc.), mostly in the US, with forays into the state of the world today
How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman - a history of Victorian domestic and social life, written with a “day in the life” structure
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan - a history of the world focusing on the Middle East and Central Asia, rather than the West
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene - a good introduction to string theory
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte - what we currently know about the evolution of dinosaurs and the world they lived in
anything by Mary Roach - she’s a funny science journalist who’s made a career of finding scientists in odd fields and asking them questions. I rec Fuzz, Stiff, and Spook especially (animal-human conflict, cadavers, paranormal, respectively).
SPQR by Mary Beard - a history of ancient Rome that focuses on the average people, rather than the elites
Zealot by Resa Aslan - a biography of Jesus Christ the man and messiah, and a look at how his preaching was shaped into Christianity after his execution
anything by James Herriot - cozy and charming stories about being a vet in 1930s Yorkshire
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch - an overview of Internet English, where it comes from and why it’s fascinating
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith - cephalopod intelligence and how it may have evolved
Time Travel by James Gleick - a history of time travel in culture, from science fiction to relativity to time capsules and beyond
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty - a memoir about working in a crematory and a peek into the funeral industry
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor - a young man walks across western Europe in the 1930s
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks - case studies of people with unusual memory impairments
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