It had been a while since I had read a book, so I recently read the book The Book of Strange but True Science, which does not have any named authors; my family gave this to me as a birthday gift last year. It is a fun jaunt through scientific phenomena, technological & engineering innovations, and the histories of discoveries of those things, covering most major topics in STEM fields and with each vignette being less than 10 pages.
The book is written at probably a middle school reading level (from my time, though with the decline in reading proficiency among school students across the country, perhaps this is more like a high school reading level), and its perspective is clearly American. All of the vignettes were fairly superficial, and most of them felt familiar to me from school. Thus, I might have liked this more in middle school or high school, but at this point in my life, it feels too basic for me. That said, I would recommend it for any lay reader who could be interested in STEM topics.
