2023 oddly specific genre challenge - hosted by hjerteknuser

a non-fiction book about something unspectacular
stop telling me about your adventurous life. stop making me read diaries written by interesting people. i don't need a book to give me FOMO.

(super extra bonus points if you just track your uni text books for this)
All books added
Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You): A How-To Guide from the First Family of Podcasting by Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy

Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You): A How-To Guide from the First Family of Podcasting

Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction business funny informative medium-paced
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language by Arika Okrent

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language

Arika Okrent

264 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction art history reference informative reflective medium-paced
Historical Capitalism by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

Historical Capitalism

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

168 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative slow-paced
Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson, Annabel Lee

Consider the Fork

Bee Wilson, Annabel Lee

11 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Lifelike Drawing with Lee Hammond by Lee Hammond

Lifelike Drawing with Lee Hammond

Lee Hammond

159 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction art informative slow-paced
How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants by David Rees

How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants

David Rees

224 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history reference funny informative slow-paced
Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt

Hamlet in Purgatory

Stephen Greenblatt

344 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced
Matrymonium. O małżeństwie nieromantycznym by Alicja Urbanik-Kopeć

Matrymonium. O małżeństwie nieromantycznym

Alicja Urbanik-Kopeć

376 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction feminism medium-paced
The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines by Donald R. Kirsch

The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

Donald R. Kirsch

328 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Calculus Made Easy by Martin Gardner, Silvanus P. Thompson

Calculus Made Easy

Martin Gardner, Silvanus P. Thompson

330 pages • first pub 1910 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics reference science informative slow-paced