It can be anything. Like anthropology, zoology, botany, entomology, cryptids, urban legends, forensics, travel, superstitions… Even cook books. The kind that will make you stop browsing at the book store and say "huh that's a very interesting and/or niche topic".
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These are both written by an extremely experienced journalist and skeptical researcher. They are immensely fun reading, basically a survey of every conspiracy theory and sensational claim.
Mamer, Karl. *The Skeptic’s Book of Lists.* Calgary: The HiveMind Group, 2021. 
Mamer, Karl. *The Conspiracy Skeptic’s Book of Lists: Conspiracies, Deception, Lies, and the Invisible Made Visible*. Calgary: The HiveMind Group, 2023. 
The Hot Zone is the scariest book I’ve ever read and it’s a non-fiction book about Ebola and related hemorrhagic viruses.
The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
***Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age***
I found it interesting because I never realized what the Opium war was about. And how badly China got shafted by the west.
Still Life With Bones by Alexa Hagerty
It’s about forensical anthropology and the genocides in Guatemala and Argentina. Absolutely fascinating and horrifying read.
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins
_Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death_ by Deborah Blum describes late 19th- and early 20th-Century Anglo-American efforts to study and conduct controlled experiments with people who claimed to communicate with the dead.
*The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria* by David Pratten.