The Worst Hard Times, Timothy Eagen. The story of the dust bowl in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles.
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson. The fossil record...and the methods used, and assumptions made, to study them.
The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King. Sherlock Holmes, the later years.
The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman. The historical events that occurred in the thirty years prior to WWI.
The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager. The discovery of Sulpha drugs between the two world wars.
I read “The Wost Hard Time” earlier this year. What a great book that was.