I love a good ‘how to’ book.

I don’t mean an instruction manual. I’m not talking about How to Fix Your Drain or A Dummy’s Guide to HTML.

I’m talking about a fiction book that explains how to do something. It’s often a job—how a job works, what the skills are you need, how to apply them, the tricks and insights to making it happen. But it can be other things. I remember reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in high school and what I liked most was the motorcycle maintenace (I don’t remember any of the zen). It was just interesting. It was super readable (that’s what separates it from an instructional how-to book).