I'm a majority fiction reader. I absolutely love science and history, but I can't stand the textbookish way that most books of those genres are written in. I would appreciate some recommendations for books that have either a first person narrative woven into it (NOT looking for historical fiction, I'm talking stories in the field from a scientist for example), are written in layman's terms, or have a non-academic writing style that doesn't feel like I'm reading a 500 page doctoral thesis. Preferably more than one of the three.
Basically anything in the science or history category is great. I'm not very picky about what I read and I can get interested in basically anything, but here's some main categories I like:
– Mycology/botany
– Medicine/disease
– American history/politics (esp of the past century)
– Historical revolutions and wars
– Pre-industrial revolution European history
Here are some books that I've loved that are what I'm looking for more of:
– Entangled Life- Sheldrake
– Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail of '72- Thompson
– Dopeworld- Vorobyov
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