Start with high-confidence history of science books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition
John C. Lennox
Raymond Williams's Sociology of Culture
P. Jones, Paul Jones
Desperate Remedies
Andrew Scull
Philosophy and Terry Pratchett
J. Held, J. South
Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives
A. Soon, Andrew Hock Soon Ng
The Age of Wonder
Richard Holmes
A History of Chemical Warfare
K. Coleman, Kim Coleman
Origin
Jennifer Raff
Elements
Theodore Gray, Nick Mann
