The Bookshop by Evan Friss is a solid work of nonfiction subtitled A History of the American Bookstore.
Barnes & Noble and Amazon Books (now closed down) is also detailed, along with mention of people who put on seminars about how to open and run a bookstore.
The book has interesting content, especially the stories of modern-day bookshops.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a remarkable memoir about she, her siblings Brian, Lori, and Maureen, and parents Rex and Rose Mary Walls. Sometimes Rex or Rose would have jobs, but often they wouldn't, and they didn't believe in public assistance, so the kids would go hungry and the family bounce from city to city when bills would come due or trouble arose, doing what Rex called "the skedaddle" in the middle of the night. Among many other small towns in the Southwest, they lived in Battle Mountain, NV and Blythe, CA before moving Phoenix and then Welch, the West Virginia hollow town mining town where Rex grew up.
It's a wild story of abdication of parental responsibility, one where Rex and Rose wouldn't do adult things, because "why should they have to?" Rose had a teaching degree, but fancied herself an artist, not someone who would waste their days working. When Jeannette later had a great opportunity come her way, the response of Rose was to say it's not fair that Jeannette should have that instead of her. It comes out late in the book that as they lived this itinerant and poverty-stricken lifestyle, Rose from her family owed land in Texas worth roughly a million dollars, but wouldn't sell as she wanted it to keep it.
Rex at times would have jobs, but focused more on his drinking and telling of his grand plans. He would talk about how he was going to come up with a new way to extract gold from the ground, and the ensuing fabulous wealth would be used to build the family a Glass Castle, a home he often shared the meticulously created designs for with his children. But when there would be money coming in, Rex would take the paycheck and buy booze.
It's an amazing book, including the memorable scene were Jeannette was chastised by a college professor, asking her what she would know about hardships faced by the underclass.
Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell is a short and interesting book subtitled A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures. Rundell in separate chapters covers animals including the seahorse, American wood frog, lemur, golden mole, wombat, narwhal, pangolin, and Greenland shark.
Rundell notes that in the last fifty years, the world's wildlife has declined by an average of almost seventy percent. She makes a compelling argument that these animals, many which teeter on the brink of extinction, have a right to remain, and celebrates in the book just how interesting and different they are.
The American wood frog allows itself to freeze solid for winter, with it's heart stopping for the season. The Greenland shark can live to be over five hundred years old. The swift flies at least ten months a year, sleeping in the air, with one brain hemisphere shut off while the other remains alert. The golden mole is the only mammal with iridescence, and the Somali golden mole to our knowledge has never been seen alive. The book is written as a call to act, to not give up on vanishing animals and to do the climate change mitigation needed to keep many of these species in our world.