Going through this one these days, it's an author's recent update on the original (no need to read the original one as this one is written for those who haven't read it)
Fiction-
Augustus, by John Williams.
Only if you're interested in ancient Rome. More accurate than typical historical fiction. Won 1973 National Book Award.
Non- fiction
Hidden Repression by Alex Gladstein.
I have learned so much by reading his books.
No, I never did. I got interested when I started collecting ancient roman coins about 10 years ago. I have read 2 Augustus biographies and now this fictionalized one. I'm obviously just focused on him. I'll check them out.
Does manga count?
I love Berserk so much that I purchase manga set of it and re-reading it!
(It's a Dark fantasy related, I wanted to add describe it more but don't want to give any spoilers!)
I haven't read this book this weekend and I haven't even finished this book myself. I think I stopped at some point in the center because life got in the way. And then I never started reading again. This must have been at least 5 years ago.
But I really need to finish this book. It contemplates how life can arise from dead things like stones. The book continuously uses the concept of loops for that.
For example, life may arise when things start to react to their environment. However, by reacting, they change their environment and thus they need to react to this new environment again. And so on. According to this book, this might be all there is to life, lol :)
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff (just finished it) and now L'urgence climatique est un leurre by François Gervais (sorry it is in French).
I just bought a book also on Yahoo auctions 「続 コロナは概念」.
The first one is a way to get a better grasp at how statistics are used to lie and put forward biaised narratives.
The second one is about the climate narrative. For example it explains things such as in 100 years the CO2 in the air increased very modestly from 0.03 to 0.04%, how important CO2 is for life on earth, etc.
And the last one I just bought it and didn't receive it so I don't know but it is the continuation of a Japanese comics called "The corona virus is a concept" (that I have read), which was very funny, about all the corona virus nonsense.
Diamond Age - by Neal Stephenson
The Red Book