Sad learning: Empire of Pain, about the Sacklers Dense learning: Gödel, Escher, Bach Light learning: Beyond Measure Memoir with feelings: Ducks (graphic novel) Fun graphic novel: Digger Romance: Swordheart Fantasy (funny): Mort Sci-fi: Murderbot (any) Fantasy: A Sorceress Comes to Call
"Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands", by Kate Beaton is _terrific_. I'd known her by her comic graphic novels. This is a memoir of her struggles to support herself after college, before getting her art career of the ground -- and it's a portrait of the miserable toll of the tar sands oil industry.
