For clarity, these are the books I've read:
- Unnatural Causes – Dr. Richard Shepherd
- A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
- Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work – Roma Agrawal
- Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces – Laurie Winkless
- What A Mushroom Lives For – Michael J. Hathaway
I've enjoyed all of these and I like learning about small segments of different areas. Although these are all scientific, I'm not confining myself to it. I'm happy to learn about a specific person in history that isn't often discussed, politics/social movements, anecdotal stories from different occupations, emotional retellings of past crime/disasters etc.
The one thing I do NOT want to read about is psychology. I got my degree in psychology and am completely burnt out, so the last thing I want is to study anxiety, mental disorders etc. again. Hope this makes sense!
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Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer is about mormonism and, specifically, fundamentalist mormons. It’s fascinating.
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester is about the making of the Oxford English dictionary, with a somewhat side story of one of the heavy contributors who was an insane asylum inmate.
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky is about cod, the fish that changed the world.