What are your favorite non-fiction books?

Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Flim-Flam! - James Randi
The Coming Plague - Laurie Garrett
To Engineer is Human - Henry Petroski
Normal Accidents - Charles Perrow
Complications - Atul Gawande
Cruising in Seraffyn - Lyn Pardey
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Psychology of Everyday Things - Donald Norman

Those are just a few. :)
 
"The Art of Happiness" - Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler.
"Stalking the Wild Pendulum" - Itzhak Bentov
"The Holographic Universe" - Michael Talbot

~ashes
 
In no particular order:

The Code Book by Simon Singh
The English: A Social History by Christopher Hibbert
The Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney
The Complete Guide to Self-Sufficiency by John Seymour
The First Day on the Somme by Martin Middlebrook
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan
On the Track of Unknown Animals by Bernard Heuvelmans
Culloden by John Prebble
The Wind in my Wheels by Josie Dew
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
The Scottish Islands by Hamish Haswell-Smith
A Celtic Miscellany translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
Luger by John Walter
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

... are a few I pick up time and again.

maximus otter
 
business books:

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen
The 21 Immutable Laws of Marketing, by Al Ries and Jack Trout
The 80/20 Principle, by Richard Koch
Winning Through Intimidation, by Robert Ringer
 
Big Bore Sixguns by John Taffin
Big Bore Handguns by John Taffin
The Bible (Just Kidding ;) )
 
How could I have forgotten to mention: "Running With Scissors" and "Dry", both by Augusten Burrows. Very funny and kind of sad at the same time.

~ashes
 
Death In The Long Grass by Peter Hathaway Capstick.
Anything else by Capstick
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
A Voice Crying In The Wilderness by Edward Abbey
Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Paul
 
Band Of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
My Dark Places by James Ellroy
The Devil Soldier by Caleb Carr
 
Mostly Viet Nam era books like:
Sympathy for the Devil
The 13th Hill
Charlie Mike
Koko
 
Actually, about all I ever read is non-fiction.

Some of my all-time recent favorites:

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat-- Oliver Sacks
An Anthropologist on Mars-- Oliver Sacks
Awakenings-- Oliver Sacks
The Professor and the Madman-- Simon Winchester
John Barleycorn, or Alcoholic Memoirs-- Jack London
The Book of Lists-- various editors (volumes I, II, III)
Donnie Brasco-- Joseph Pistone
Travels-- Michael Crichton
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women-- Ricky Jay
Into Thin Air-- John Krakauer
The Perfect Storm-- Sebastian Junger
The Death of Outrage-- William Bennett
The Hot Zone-- Richard Preston
 
komondor said:
Actually, about all I ever read is non-fiction.

Some of my all-time recent favorites:


Into Thin Air-- John Krakauer
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Great book, Have you read The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev? Its a nice balance Krakauer's

Another is Touching the void by Joe Simpson

For any would be adventurer sailers out there, get A voyage for madmen by Peter Nichols
 
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kamkazmoto said:
Steven Hawkings' books are great at simplifying very complex concepts
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My favorite was how to improve your memory by What's- his- name. CRS struck again !!!! Dogbite it ! :D Really don't remember .

Uncle Alan
 
Temper said:
Great book, Have you read The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev? Its a nice balance Krakauer's
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I haven't read that, no. But I did hear there was another viewpoint published. I should probably check it out.

I didn't read Touching the Void, but I saw the documentary. Loved it. But I'm sure the book is better.
 
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