Start with high-confidence curiosities & wonders books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
A Hog on Ice
Charles E. Funk
A Christmas Cornucopia
Mark Forsyth
Thing Explainer
Randall Munroe
Arkansas Curiosities
Janie Jones, Wyatt Jones
Iowa Curiosities
Eric Jones, Dan Coffey
New Jersey Curiosities
Peter Genovese
A Little Book of Coincidence
John Martineau
I Never Knew That About Ireland
Christopher Winn
Phraseology
Barbara Ann Kipfer PhD, Barbara Ann Kipfer
Weird New England
Joseph A. Citro, Mark Moran
Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns
Paul Green
Tiny New York
Suzi Siegel
The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World, 3rd Edition
Susan Veness
Atlas Obscura: Wild Life
Cara Giaimo, Joshua Foer
What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?
Andrew Thompson
True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t
Shane Carley
The Madman's Gallery
Edward Brooke-Hitching
