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I'm halfway through Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer, published November 2nd 2021 by Random House (first published October 11th 2016).
I've been looking for a recentish book that does a good job explaining the immune system suitable for a lay person. It looks like I found it on my first try and also seems unlikely any other book would have done the job for me.I urge everyone to read the first two reviews on goodreads. (The second review is 1 star as an effective ploy, it is among the most useful to me reviews of a non-fiction book I have ever read.)
The material is presented in a way that is accessible and entertaining without being insulting. The author has a degree in information design, whatever that is. He is famous for his youtube channel, which I have not seen, but he certainly is skilled in presenting information.
The many full screen color illustrations are very well done and remind me of illustrations in Scientific American. (Which I haven't read in about 30 years, so I don't know what its current illustrations look like.) I don't think they render all that well on standard or color e-ink, so I keep a color LCD tablet handy for when an illustration comes up, which is also nice to have available for referring to the illustration while reading the following text on e-ink and sometimes rereading the preceding text on e-ink.
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