I've absolutely fallen in love with Bill Bryson and the way he writes nonfiction about specific topics. I'm on a mission to read all his books. He's got me on a streak of memoirs, essays, and general nonfiction about niche topics, but I'm having a hard time finding other books that hit me the way his do.
For clarity my favorites that I've read so far by him: In A Sunburned Country, I'm A Stranger Here Myself, One Summer in America: 1927, and A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Others books that scratch the itch a little: Hey, Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson. You Didn't Hear This From Me by Kelsey McKinney, The Secret History of Food by Matt Siegel, Who Ate The First Oyster by Cody Cassidy, and Food for Thought by Alton Brown
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Mary Roach
Ooh his Walk in the Woods is a favorite of mine. You should try *Dispatches from Pluto* by Richard Grant. A Brit and his girlfriend move to the MS Delta and encounter all sorts of uniquely Southern people and situations (I live in MS and he is NOT exaggerating about these characters).
One of my all-time favorite books is “Last Chance to See” by Douglas Adams – it’s a diary of him touring the world and learning about endangered animals.