There’s something so satisfying about letting your imagination luxuriate in all angles of a topic. When times feel big and uncertain, focusing on the specific and knowable can be a comfort. From beautiful single-subject meditations to exhaustively detailed histories and accounts of fandom and obsession, these are some of the best nonfiction deep dives ever—plus one famously elaborate autobiographical novel—perfect for inspiring your next rabbit hole.
My Struggle Book 1: My Struggle Books in Series: My Struggle (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6) This autobiographical series made massive literary waves with its brutally candid depictions of events based on the author's life. Across six books, My Struggle depicts scenes from Knausgaard's life, from a childhood in an unsteady home where he found comfort in music to his present literary ambitions, culminating with his struggle to be a decent and caring father. Written with pathos and narrated with a matching level of carefully paced focus, this is a heady series that makes for thoroughly engaging listening.
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