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So, I no longer have Storygraph (I wanted something with an API, and after switching to Hardcover, I didn't want to keep up with two platforms), so I can't link that unfortunately. However, since we share some of the same interests and I've been keeping a list of nonfiction reads that I've enjoyed or find intriguing, I'll type them here.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler, trans. by Shaun Whiteside

Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages by the Women Who Were Written Out Of It by Janina Ramirez

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers by Marta McDowell

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York by Ross Perlin

Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace by Michelle Slatalla and Matthew Quittner

Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People? by Claire Dederer

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grizzly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching

The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation by Bill Morgan

EDIT — A few more suggestions, if you want them:

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale by Amitav Ghosh

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