Prompts

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

By
@soweli-pan-suwi
John

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

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

2019 • 350 Readers • 546 pages • 4.4

A Short History of Nearly Everything

2003 • 1,257 Readers • 705 pages • 4.2

This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

2020 • 18 Readers • 336 pages • 3.8

Isaac's Storm

1999 • 113 Readers • 4.1

Rebent Sinner

2019 • 5 Readers • 224 pages • 4.5

Cover 6

2 Readers

Cover 6

2022 • 2 Readers • 136 pages • 5