A Walk in the Woods (audiobook especially) - Bill Bryson

Anything by David Baldacci is good too. I'd start with the Camel Club series.

Denny

For a fun read with a Florida tilt, The Carl Hiaasen Books are good. Bad Monkey and then Razor Girl are two of his recent books.

Another good one by Scott Anderson is Unknown Rider.

Denny I recommend “freedoms forge” by Author Herman.... good non-fiction about the war powers act in the late 30’s. Back when leadership a
was real and the buck stopped with the POTUS.

+1 on Baldacci just make sure you start at the beginning of a series

“The Winner” is a great stand alone by him.

The Martian

Ready Player One

both better than their movies were.

The Death of the West - Oswald Spengler (org pub 1918, so basically free on a kindle)

Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shosana Zuboff

And Forgive Them their Debts; Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year - Michael Hudson (fascinating look at how societies have managed debts over the centuries)

Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business - Neil Postman (pub 1985, highly prescient)

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - Robert M. Sapolsky

The Way of the Knife (The CIA, A Secret Army, And a War At the Ends of the Earth) - Mark Mazzetti

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety - Eric Schlosser

Bad Blood - Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou

Beat me to it. This ^^^^!

And if you like that book you'll also likely enjoy Guns, Germs & Steel

I'll also add Outliers to the list.

STALIN by Stephen Kotkin

North Star Over My Shoulder: A Flying Life by Bob Buck.

Great Read. Good writer. Bob started on DC-2 and DC-3 with TWA. Retired as a 747 CA. Along the way, Chief Pilot. If I recall, he succeeded Charles Lindbergh.

From Amazon: Captain Robert N. Buck retired from TWA after having flown well over two thousand Atlantic crossings and thirty-seven years of service as chief pilot and director of thunderstorm research. During World War II he was engaged in weather research for the U.S. Air Corps, for which he was awarded, as a civilian, the Air Medal by President Harry Truman. More recently, Buck has worked with the International Civil Aviation Organization -- the UN's body for aviation -- to develop a new plan of world airspace.
In North Star over My Shoulder, Bob Buck tells of a life spent up and over the clouds, and of the wonderful places and marvelous people who have been a part of that life. He captures the feel, taste, and smell of flying's great early era -- how the people lived, what they did and felt, and what it was really like to be a part of the world as it grew smaller and smaller. A terrific storyteller and a fascinating man, Bob Buck has turned his well-lived life into a delightful memoir for anyone who remembers when there really was something special in the air.