Really interesting non fiction book?

[SheepAndSword]

Examples of things I have enjoyed are Guy Deutscher and Richard Dawkins. In hospital and bored!

Worldly goods by Lisa Jardine. All about how one upmanship fuelled the renaissance

If you enjoy biography, Sonia Purnell's book about Clementine Churchill is fascinating

I just love this. Have read it twice Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall.

@Devilshands

We will have to differ then. Underhandedly trashing the blameless opposition just isn't acceptable. You can't mitigate that with the quality of your work.

Dawn of Everything

I second Invisible Women.
Jellyfish Age Backwards is brilliant.
Jarvis Cocker's autobiography was a really lovely surprise.
SPQR by Mary Beard is really very good.
Wanderers by Kerri Andrews.
Anything by Ruth Goodman. She is awesome.
Anything by Alice Roberts. She is also awesome.
Toksvig's Almanac. Also the book about modern manners, and the view from the bus.
A Cheesemonger's history of Modern Britain.
Anything by Robin Ince.
Anything by Tim Harford.
Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem.
Anything by Bill Bryson.

I enjoyed Buzz by Thor Hanson. All about bees and interesting but not too heavy. I borrowed it from the library but liked it so much I bought it:

Vaxxers - written by two of the scientists who developed one of the Covid vaccines. Interesting behind the scenes look at vaccine development, and infectious diseases in general.

@BreatheAndFocus I second that as well - a really great book.

This one is good too. It’s about how disease shaped the history of Humankind:

Pathenogenesis

The Body by Bill Bryson, and his other history/ science books.
John Stempel Lewis books on the countryside.

Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

If you like science look up Luke o neill

Samuel Pepys diary he was there in court during the ending of Charles 1sts reign the reformation, the plague, the great fire of London and the return of Charles 2nd its fascinating reading someone's daily life when all these historical things were going on

Any of the recent sociopolitical history books written by David Kynaston or Dominic Sandbrook

Necropolis: London and its dead (Catharine Arnold). How London has dealt with too many dead bodies over the last millennium.

The Year the World Went Mad. Discussion about the covid year by an epidemiologist.

Unquiet Women by Max Adams
Economix: how our economy works and doesn't work by Michael Goodwin and Dan E Burr
Lost for Words by John Humphreys
Other Minds: the octopus and the evolution of intelligent life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Is there life outside the box? an actor despairs by Peter Davison
The Madman's Library by Edward Brook-Hitching

The worst railway disasters in Britain

All of Bill Brysons books.
Laura Bates
Malcolm Gladwell
The spirit level
The Silo Effect
Margaret Mead
Pinker
Hilary Mantel's non fiction

Just go to a bookshop & browse!

I really enjoyed Sue Black's books - Written in Bone and All That Remains. She's a forensic anthropologist and these are anectdotal tales of her work so not too heavy despite the dark subject matter.

There's what I was going to say

Um … the OP is in hospital.

I second A Bit of a Stretch (really interesting, witty view of how prisons are run) and also Invisible Women.
Bad blood by John Carreyrou is really good too. Covers the story about the Theranos blood testing scam. It's amazing how they took in so many investors and corporations.

This was good also the sequel 'the seven ages of man'

Another vote for Sue Black's books, very interesting.

A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

If you like true crime, I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara.