WOW that is horrifyingly bad fact-checking. Yikes.

I just went through my nonfiction tag and was surprised to discover how few books I read within the genre of "social histories of specific things"! I'm far more likely to read biographies or memoirs, if I'm going for nonfiction. Here's a couple that I thoroughly enjoyed though:

- The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, by David Damrosch
- T. rex and the Crater of Doom, by Walter Alvarez