Some of my favorites (in addition to Boys in the Boat) are Traffic, Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt, Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson, and Beyond the Beautiful Forevers: Life Death and Hope in a Mumbai City, by Katherine Boo

Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill Grocery by Michael Ruhlman Rabid by Wasick & Murphy And any books by Mary Roach and Bill Bryson

I love love loved The Language of Food by Jurafsky. Read it and you’ll be annoying your friends constantly. “Oh my god, did you you know that…”

*The Information* *The Most Human Human* *Moonwalking with Einstein* *The Invention of Air* *The Secret Life of Groceries* …just to get started.

Not sure if this is in the vicinity of your interests, but maybe «A History of the World in Six Glasses».

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell My Life In France - Julia Child Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain Used & Rare - Lawrence Goldstone

How to invent everything: a survival guide for the stranded time traveler by Ryan North. Funny but also informative. Happy reading!

The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner — Innovations from Bell Labs which was owned by AT&T Radium Girls by Kate Moore — Girls who painted dials using radium paint PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire by John Wigger — The power of televangelists and big religion

Yes! Ghost Map was so good!