I'm looking for a book about a particular interesting topic. This could be literally ANY topic at all. There is absolutely no area "out of bounds" as long as it's particularly interesting and focused on one "thing".
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
Novel by Peter Wohlleben
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Longitude: The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time by Dava Sobel. Book is about John Harrison who created a clock that worked on ships at sea. This allowed sailors to accurately measure their longitude while navigating
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*The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks* by Rebecca Skloot is incredible! It’s a fascinating account of how one woman’s cells have been (and still are) replicated for use in science and medicine.
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The faithful executioner by Joel Harrington. Enjoyed it quite a bit despite my hesitance on the subject.
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End of everything- it’s about physics behind the different ways the universe may end
Salt – history of salt basically, I found it amazing. Opened my eyes ( and palate).
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The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk. The rivalry between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester about the Oxford dictionary, his Krakatoa is good too about a volcanic eruption. Many Mark Kurlansky books: eg Salt, Cod, 1968…Michael Pollan’s books about plants, food…Barbara Tuchman on WWI or her ‘Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-1945’. G E Gordon ‘Structures or Why things don’t fall down’. The common theme is writing ability and subject expertise not always easy to find together in non-fiction.
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Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worse Ways to Cure Everything
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Why We Swim – Bonnie Tsui
SnooPineapples2184 on
An Immense World by Ed Yong, an attempt to catalog how other lifeforms experience existence and how their senses (and ours) define the world
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The Extraordinary Voyage of Pythias the Greek by Barry Cunliffe
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Currently reading Gay Berlin, by Robert Beachy. It’s about how interwar Berlin gathered gay communities, and more generally how gay rights movements started in Germany between the XIXth and XXth century. It reads quite well and it could interest you especially if you happen to like history or/and queer topics!
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Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
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Primary colors by Alexander Theroux 3 essays one on each primary colour and plenty to learn along the way
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
Novel by Peter Wohlleben
Longitude: The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time by Dava Sobel. Book is about John Harrison who created a clock that worked on ships at sea. This allowed sailors to accurately measure their longitude while navigating
*The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks* by Rebecca Skloot is incredible! It’s a fascinating account of how one woman’s cells have been (and still are) replicated for use in science and medicine.
The faithful executioner by Joel Harrington. Enjoyed it quite a bit despite my hesitance on the subject.
End of everything- it’s about physics behind the different ways the universe may end
Salt – history of salt basically, I found it amazing. Opened my eyes ( and palate).
The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk. The rivalry between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester about the Oxford dictionary, his Krakatoa is good too about a volcanic eruption. Many Mark Kurlansky books: eg Salt, Cod, 1968…Michael Pollan’s books about plants, food…Barbara Tuchman on WWI or her ‘Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-1945’. G E Gordon ‘Structures or Why things don’t fall down’. The common theme is writing ability and subject expertise not always easy to find together in non-fiction.
Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worse Ways to Cure Everything
Why We Swim – Bonnie Tsui
An Immense World by Ed Yong, an attempt to catalog how other lifeforms experience existence and how their senses (and ours) define the world
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pythias the Greek by Barry Cunliffe
Currently reading Gay Berlin, by Robert Beachy. It’s about how interwar Berlin gathered gay communities, and more generally how gay rights movements started in Germany between the XIXth and XXth century. It reads quite well and it could interest you especially if you happen to like history or/and queer topics!
Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
Primary colors by Alexander Theroux 3 essays one on each primary colour and plenty to learn along the way
Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. The Open Library page is [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).
Blitzed by Norman ohler –about drug use in the 3rd Reich. Fascinating …