Recs if you like Jewels: A Secret History...
microhistories: “how do you even know that??”
microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"
Weirdly Specific Nonfiction
Nonfiction on a single, weirdly specific topic
Gemstone and Mineral Nonfiction
Nonfiction books about individual gems, crystals, and minerals, also a few books about multiple minerals that I would recommend.
Polymath Training Challenge, Best Of
Polymath Training Challenge is a non-fiction reading challenge that has been running on a Hungarian book site for the past 11 years. Each year it has 12 categories that participants have to pick their own nonfiction reads for (incl. memoirs and biographies). I have discovered several amazing nonfiction books through this challenge, so I decided to make a list of the best, and most mind-blowing, of them so far.
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