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Books like At Home
A cozy, endlessly fascinating stroll through the hidden histories lurking in the mundane corners of your own house. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with At Home.
- cozy
- intellectually stimulating
- fireside-chat
- 01
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
A delightfully witty, bite-sized tour of the cosmos that makes the mind-boggling scale of science feel like a fun conversation with a very smart friend.
- 02
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
A laugh-out-loud, sunlit stroll through the absurdities and wonders of a mid-century American childhood.
- 03
The Dirt on Clean
Katherine Ashenburg · 2007
A fascinating, unsanitized tour through the surprising history of human hygiene and the shifting cultural anxieties hidden behind a bar of soap.
- 04
Atoms Under the Floorboards
Chris Woodford
A delightful, eye-opening tour through the hidden physics governing the ordinary objects in your home.
- 05
The Fabric of Civilization
Virginia Postrel
A sweeping, intellectually stimulating journey that reveals how the threads of everyday fabric wove the modern world together.
- 06
Napoleon's Buttons
Penny LeCouteur and Jay Burreson
A fascinating, perspective-shifting journey that reveals the invisible chemical scaffolding holding up human history.
- 07
The Secret Lives Of Colour
Kassia St. Clair
A kaleidoscopic journey through history that transforms the way you see the everyday world.
- 08
Fifty plants that changed the course of history
Bill Laws
A beautifully illustrated, fascinating stroll through the botanical wonders that quietly built human civilization.
- 09
A history of the world in 6 glasses
Tom Standage · 2005
A lively, conversational journey through human history that reveals how our favorite beverages shaped the modern world.
- 10
Stuff Matters
Mark Miodownik
A joyful, eye-opening tour through the hidden miracles of the everyday objects we touch, use, and ignore.
- 11
Packing for Mars
Mary Roach
A hilariously grounded look at the deeply unglamorous, bodily realities of sending fragile humans into the void.
- 12
Where good ideas come from
Steven Johnson
An illuminating, cross-disciplinary journey that reveals how collaboration, serendipity, and shared spaces spark human progress.
