I’ve generally really enjoyed Bill Bryson’s travel books (A Walk in the Woods is a perennial favourite, and I credit In a Sunburned Country for spurring a never-before-had interest in visiting Australia) but I’ve not read any of his general nonfiction. At Home was a thrift shop find, but I ended up borrowing an electronic copy from my library, which helped with the reading of it, since I was able to lie in my bed in the dark of night and read. Focusing mainly on England, with occasional forays into the USA, Bryson takes each room of his English house and devotes a chapter to the history surrounded the people and things that would have populated it. I learned quite a bit, and was never bored.