entertaining informative non-fiction

[Anonymous No.18382896]

post em. non-fiction books that are well-written, highly informative and interesting to follow. any topic goes
you don't exclusively read academic theory, do you?

[Anonymous No.18382929]

My current main non-fiction read. The fucker is dense, going to take a couple months just to work through the greeks, have to dig out a lot of references. Should go quicker once I get past the middle ages.

[Anonymous No.18382964]

>>18382929
I guess this is essentially academic theory so I will throw out one my favorites. Fantastic book, along for the ride with a Brit obsessed with clouds, very informative and entertaining while staying away from reading like pop science, he never tries to delude the reader with analogies. Honorable mention, The Gunpowder Gardens, another book by an obsessed Brit, all about tea, a solid history lesson on the tea trade and tea culture around the world and his travels for tea.

[Anonymous No.18382979]

His books start to run together though and the overlap overload becomes real

[Anonymous No.18382999]

Long book but it's light and easy with lots of good facts. It tries to derive everything in history (mostly philosophical stuff) from a platonist or aristotelian viewpoint. Very good book.

[Anonymous No.18383009]

This is funny. She's like autistic or something but she's a good writer.

[Anonymous No.18383097]

>>18382964
very based book and hobby. stay cloudy brahs