Book 1 of Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard series is a romp-and-a-half, and though I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to the average non-nerd, it is packed with fun worldbuilding, attention-grabbing action, and lovable characters.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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