Ask HN: What unexpectedly good book have you read?

Not a book but a movie: Apocalypse Now.

I have read a review and got this movie immediately. I use to enjoy literally every second of it, this weekend I have opened it firstly and it took me 6 or 7 hours to finish this 3-hour movie with all stops and rewatches but with no looking at additional materials yet. Many different translations to my language were extremely handy for my enjoying, because the original English audio is too hard for my English level and different translators/voicers did a great job translating these deep repliques each team in their own way. I consider this movie as the best movie I have ever watched, previous first was Knocking on Heaven's Door for 10 years long (I do not watch more than a few movies per year and never watch new movies without reading a review beforehand). Consider watch it in highest possible quality with 7.1 sound.

Bill Bryson's "The Body" is really interesting and engaging. It tells lots of small science stories about how people have discovered how the human body works. Amusingly it repeatedly talks about how little we know about the body, and the flailing about with different theories or people just winging it :-D

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (Burrough, Tomlinson, Stanford)

The Cat I Never Named (Amra Sabic-El-Sayess)

I had low expectations for Becky Chamber’s books but so far I have liked every one of them.