Recs if you like The History of Money: A Story of Humanity...

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Niche nonfiction, aka micro-histories!

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The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash

Niche Nonfiction to Get Your Dad

by clb2326

130 books

Niche nonfiction books that dads are still likely to enjoy that either 1) are not military history at all or 2) a niche area of a war that is not military history

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating

Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Brain Food

by alexz

64 books

Microhistories and niche non-fiction to make you go… huh?

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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

Volkswirtschaftslehre

by luna-moonlight

5 books

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