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What one non-fiction book would you love people to read?

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Yourinmyspot · 27/05/2026 12:23

Mine is The Body by Bill Bryson. I found it fascinating and some of the facts in it are amazing, my favourite being the following.

’Every time you breathe, you exhale 25 sextillion molecules of oxygen- so many that with a day’s breathing you will in all likelihood inhale at least one molecule from the breaths of every person that has ever lived. And every person who lives from now until the sun burns out will from time to time breathe in a bit of you. At the atomic level we are in a sense eternal’.

I find that fact fascinating and oddly comforting.

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EdgarAllanPoesMirror · 27/05/2026 12:36

The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida.
As a mother of a non verbal, severly autistic son, it gave me some possible clues on what my boy might be thinking or experiencing, though I will never know for sure.

Summeriscumin · 27/05/2026 12:30

The Female Eunuch - Gemaine Greer

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 27/05/2026 12:29

If this is a Man by Primo Levi

KojaksLollipop · 27/05/2026 12:28

Could people elaborate a little on their recommendations? Saves me googling every single title, lol.

Pippipumpkin · 27/05/2026 12:26

Came here to say Invisible Women too!

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 27/05/2026 12:25

Peter ackroyd London. Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire. Debs at War. Yeah that’s 3.

BeaAndBen · 27/05/2026 12:25

Invisible Women. I think it's one of th most important books published in the 21st century

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