chutten (he/him)I don't read a lot of non-fiction, but I just finished Jay Foreman ( @jayforeman ) and Mark Cooper-Jones' "This Way Up". It was interesting, humorous, and had nearly as many footnotes as a Bartimeus book. It handled silly stories with seriousness and serious stories also with gravity befitting their seriousness, while still providing ample entertaining prose. Recommended for folks who like maps and stories.
@jayforeman Additionally, I was pleasantly surprised that the book wasn't merely an expansion of the youtube channel, like Matt Parker's "Humble Pi" was. Though a delight, and including more information, retreading already-learnt information isn't a highlight for me.
Contrast "This Way Up" with Adam Shoalts' "A History of Canada in Ten Maps", a by-the-numbers, flat read that didn't really take the colonial context into account.