Pretty much the title. I love reading non fiction because the world contains so many interesting, weird, sad, funny, fucked up multitudes and I. Want. To. Know. Things. I’m not picky on genre provided it’s non fiction: in the past year I’ve gotten engrossed by auto/biography, social history, plant science, psychology, urban design, escaping religious cults, niche professionals talking about their day-to-day, broad scope books on a general topic or a really deep dive on a singular topic + more, you get the idea. But the world…is what it is right now, and I would love if I could sit with something that regularly makes me keel over laughing while I learn about a new thing.
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Bill Bryson for the lulz
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is pretty much this, I reckon.
(YMMV on the laughing stuff, but there are still a few sentences that make me laugh out loud when I randomly remember them!)
Mary Roach
Mary Roach!
Everyone should read Black AF History (subtitle: The Unwhitewashed History of America). The writer gets in some hilarious zingers in a dead serious book. By Michael Harriot.
I recently read Printers Error, by JP and Rebecca Romney (apparently of Pawn Stars fame? I don’t know, I’m not cool enough for that). I actually found the humor a little overbearing in places, but it’s crammed full of fun facts from book history, so I’d recommend giving it a shot. Great escapism.