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Nonfiction to Satisfy Your Curiosity

"I love listening to audiobooks, and my favorite genre is nonfiction. It’s like listening to a super-long podcast! I gravitate toward accessibly-written microhistories and sociology—books that teach me something new about how the world works. These were the nonfictions books I read in 2023 that have stuck with me, from the irreverent to the lifechanging." -Emma, Collection Development Librarian

Whatcom County Library System

16 items

  • Raw Dog

    the Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

    Loftus, Jamie,
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — 641.5092 LOFTUS 2023
  • Still Life With Bones

    Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

    Hagerty, Alexa,
    Book, 2023New York : Crown, [2023] — 599.9 HAGERTY 2023
  • Nuts and Bolts

    Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way

    Agrawal, Roma, 1983-
    Book, 2023New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2023. — 303.483 AGRAWAL 2023
  • Paved Paradise

    How Parking Explains the World

    Grabar, Henry,
    Book, 2023New York : Penguin Press, 2023. — 388.474 GRABAR 2023
  • Wannabe

    Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

    Harris, Aisha,
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Harper One an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]. — 306.0973 HARRIS 2023
  • Book, 2018New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018. — 306.361 GRAEBER 2018
  • Book, 2022New York : Avid Reader Press, 2022. — 611.98 RADKE 2022
  • This Is What It Sounds Like

    What the Music You Love Says About You

    Rogers, Susan, 1956-
    Book, 2022New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]. — 781.11 ROGERS 2022
  • The Secret Life of Groceries

    the Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

    Lorr, Benjamin,
    Book, 2020New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2020]. — 381.4564 LORR 2020
  • "You Just Need to Lose Weight"

    and 19 Other Myths About Fat People

    Gordon, Aubrey,
    Book, 2023Boston : Beacon Press, [2023]. — 616.398 GORDON 2023
  • Sinkable

    Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic

    Stone, Daniel (Daniel Evan), 1985-
    Book, 2022New York : Dutton, [2022] — 910.9163 STONE 2022
  • Ducks

    Two Years in the Oil Sands

    Beaton, Kate, 1983-
    Graphic Novel, 2022[Montréal, Québec] Drawn and Quarterly, 2022. — Beaton, Kate
  • Dress Code

    Unlocking Fashion From the New Look to Millennial Pink

    Hyland, Véronique,
    Book, 2022New York : Harper Perennial, [2022] — 391.009 HYLAND 2022
  • Book, 2020New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]. — 153.733 SCHWARTZ 2020