Worldbuilder's Book Club 2024 - hosted by quartzen

Single-Topic Deep Dive
Bonus prompt!! Choose a book that has a "deep dive" about a mundane topic like Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History, Cynthia Barnett's Rain: A Natural and Cultural History, Vince Beiser's The World in a Grain about sand, Tom Standage's The Victorian Internet about the telegraph, and so on.
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Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker

Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

Bianca Bosker

12 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction memoir informative lighthearted medium-paced
Butter: A Rich History by Elaine Khosrova

Butter: A Rich History

Elaine Khosrova

368 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history informative slow-paced
Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China by Jessey J. C. Choo
Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China
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Jessey J. C. Choo

Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China

Jessey J. C. Choo

304 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction by Brian M. Fagan, Nadia Durrani

World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction

Brian M. Fagan, Nadia Durrani

7 hours, 16 minutes • first pub 1979 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser

The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization

Vince Beiser

294 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science informative slow-paced
Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

Sofi Thanhauser

393 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction business history informative medium-paced
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz

Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern

Joshua Zeitz

338 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative medium-paced
The World in a Wineglass: The Insider's Guide to Artisanal, Sustainable, Extraordinary Wines to Drink Now by Ray Isle

The World in a Wineglass: The Insider's Guide to Artisanal, Sustainable, Extraordinary Wines to Drink Now

Ray Isle

713 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals by Ken Follett

Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals

Ken Follett

80 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective tense slow-paced
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries by Greg Melville

Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

Greg Melville

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced