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

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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.

Another vote for Invisible Women

Absolutely yes to Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything (it does what it say on the tin!). I have reread this many times and was over the moon to discover it was updated and reissued last year with all the latest science - it’s brilliant.

Also a big yes to The Five (Halle Rubenhold) all about Jack the Ripper’s victims but really a social history of women at the time (and how they were treated/judged). Very few mentions of JtR.

Ohhh I just rtft after I posted.

I loved it too

How Money Works (Dorling Kindersley). Explains everything from saving to derivatives!

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold - someone finally writing about the victims of Jack the Ripper

Cosa Nostra by John Dickie about the Mafia- it's so well researched, it's absolutely fascinating.

Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel.

I truly wish more non-Jewish people would read this.

Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain. Impact of WW1 and changing society on a young woman.