My husband and I are going on a road trip to several Southwest national parks so we’ll be driving a decent amount. My husband suggested we get an audio book to listen to while we drive. I asked him what kind of book and he said he wants to learn something.
What non-fiction or biography would you recommend?
My husband and I are both science people. He’s a doctor and I work in higher education. We are moving to Minnesota soon so maybe something related to that or something related to the National parks!
Thank you!!!
by ZuzBall
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Any of the Bill Bryson books about the world, like A Short History of Nearly Everything
Mary Roach and Bill Bryson both have multiple books that are well-written, informative, and fun to listen to. Amanda Montell’s Wordslut is one of the funniest and most informative books on linguistics I’ve ever read or listened to, and her two other books are on my wishlist (Cultish and The Age of Magical Overthinking).
Consider *Sapiens* by Yuval Noah Harari for a thorough natural history of the human race. He gets a bit cynical at times. Apparently humans are dicks by nature. But it’s certainly interesting.
A walk in the park by Kevin Fedarko
I’m a broken record with these but I stand by them lol
Eve: How the Human Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution- Cat Bohannon
And not science or nature related but still an interesting listen is Secret Life of Groceries- Benjamin Lorr
I haven’t read this one yet but it’s been recommended to me and it’s on my to read list: The Hidden Life of Trees- Peter Wohlleben
**Black Pill** by Elle Reeve. It’s all about how we got to where we are right now. It’s extremely entertaining and well-written. The author reads it and she’s fantastic. It should be required reading for everyone in America right now.
*The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself* –Sean Carroll
*Horizon* –Barry Lopez
This isn’t meeting this bill but if you’re ever in the mood for a lighthearted romance Abby Jimenez has a few Doctor romances set in Minnesota 🙂
For this one, maybe The Anthropocene Reviewed? Educational but still entertaining for long stretches of road
*The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma by Michael Bhaskar, Mustafa Suleyman
* How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky
* How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
* Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan.
Kurlanski’s History of Salt