Books of interest, no particular order.
- Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America – Peter Andreas
- Color: A Natural History of the Palette – Victoria Finlay
- Conquest of the Useless: Fever Dreams in the Jungle
- Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific
- On Ugliness – Umberto Eco
- The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster – Jonathan Katz
- Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire – Wade Davis
- Masters of Death – Olivie Blake
- Hidden Cities: Travels to the Secret Corners of the World’s Great Metropolises: A Memoir of Urban Exploration – Moses Gates
- Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration – Fergus Fleming
- Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean – Susan Casey
- Theatre of Fish – John Gimlette
- Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants – Robert Sullivan
- The Chinese Typewriter – Thomas Mullaney
- Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin – Megan Rosenbloom
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
- The Blood of Patriots: How I Took Down an Anti-Government Militia with Beer, Bounty Hunting, and Badassery – Bill Fulton
- A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears) – Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
- Elephant Complex – John Gimlette
- The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan – Alan Booth
- The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean – Susan Casey
- Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them – Donovan Hohn
- Among the Missing: An Anecdotal History of Missing Persons from 1800 to the Present – Jay Robert Nash
- River Man – Ben McGrath
- The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands – Jon Billman
- Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 – Elizabeth Fenn
- Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America – John Barry