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What nonfiction book turned out to be way better than you expected?

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Please no (auto)biographies. Those are great but imo kind of their own genre and shouldn't be lumped with more strictly informative nonfiction.

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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2019 • 3 Readers • 224 pages • 4.3

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The Last Island A Traveler’s Tale of Death, Discovery, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
ByAdam Goodheart

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