Recs if you like Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves...

Niche nonfiction, aka micro-histories!

Do you want to be hot and smart but are tired of trying to find a nonfiction book that appeals to you? Why don't you try finding a fun subject and become the life of the party at your next gathering👀 everyone will stand up and give you a round of applause when you share these cool facts🙂‍↕️

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"

Was anyone else obsessed with Supermarket Sweep as a child? Just me? Anyway, born from that, here's a list of books that delve into supermarkets, grocery stores, and the produce and products on their shelves.

Nonfiction on a single, weirdly specific topic

More niche nonfiction and microhistories, but this list is focusing on important, memorable, and significant inventions in the world's history. Suggestions welcome!

This list focuses on nonfiction books that describe different topics in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). This list tends to prioritize books that focus more on the whys/hows something works, but occasionally dive into the history of subjects too!

Happy reading! As always open to suggestions!! 🤠🌱

Books from This Podcast Will Kill You book club

The Seep- for the person who kind of wished Carol spent more time with her grief

The Last Murder at the End of the World- for the person interested in the relationships between of village of the joined and a couple humans

To be Taught if Fortunate— if your favorite scenes were the ones of getting the signal and the telescope scene

One Last Stop- lesbian yearning for a person you can’t fully be with

Frostbite (nonfiction)- for the person lowkey interested in refrigerated supply chains

The SciFri Book Club, created by the people who bring you the weekly public radio show Science Friday, is a program to bring people together around all things science reading—anything from sci-fi short stories to nonfiction science books to science articles from various publications to science-y poetry!