Worldbuilder's Book Club 2023 - 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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Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by William Sommer

Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

William Sommer

258 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction politics dark informative reflective medium-paced
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik

275 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui

Why We Swim

Bonnie Tsui

277 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir sports informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Tom Standage

311 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history informative medium-paced
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

Alexandra Lange

9 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson

The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

Thor Hanson

7 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science informative medium-paced
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans

Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

Jennifer Homans

643 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-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
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

8 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history nature science informative slow-paced
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Marc Levinson

376 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction business economics history informative slow-paced