I've read more books over the past year and a half during the Wuhan flu era than probably any other 18 month period in my life.
I'm currently 200 pages in on Graham Hancock's 'Before America: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization'. This is probably the best thing I've read in a long time. I've always liked his interviews on Coast, and one of my top interests is how the America's came to be populated. Another interest is alternative history, even if some of it it is purely for entertainment - there is much that has been lost, much of what we've been told is wrong, and someone needs to at least ask questions and speculate sometimes based on the little evidence we do have in certain areas.
I've never read any of his books before, he's a good writer, and takes care to state what is fact (with plenty of support), vs speculation.
So far he's tying plenty of fairly new information together in one place. The chapters I've read so far include alignment information on the Serpant Mound in Ohio, some really ancient sites found in the Americas, updated DNA information on Native Americans, and newly found ancient culture in the Amazon - including cities, moundworks, the manufactured Amazon Dark Earth (look it up, absolutely fascinating), and the fact that most of the plants and trees there appear to have originally been planned ''gardens'' and tended.
300 pages to go, yay! Hopefully most of it is more of the same, and not drifting off to raw speculation and pet theories.
I though there would be a higher kook factor, I'm definitely going to consider more of his books.