More Words, Deeper Hole

Although it is by its nature U.S.-centric, I thought Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns, a historical treatment of the "great migration" of American blacks from the South to the North of the U.S. during most of the 20th century, was an extraordinarily brilliant book, in large part because of Wilkerson's extraordinary weaving of the anecdotal and the factual aspects of history--I think you'd like that if the subject interests you at all.