What Are Your Favorite Nonfiction Books?

I couldn't find this thread already started, so here goes:

In no particular order:

1. The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin
2. The Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan
3. Hyperspace, Michio Kaku
4. Parliament Of Whores, P.J. O'Roarke
5. A Brief History Of Time, Stephen Hawking
6. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens
7. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard P. Feynman
8. The Greatest Show On Earth, Richard Dawkins
9. First Light, Richard Preston
10. The World Of Chess, Anthony Saidy & Norman Lessing

 

The Guns of August, Barbara W Tuchman
Polio An American Story, David M Oshinsky
The Second World War, Winston Churchill
The Zimmerman Telegram, Barbara W Tuchman
The Stonehenge People: An exploration of life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC, Rodney Castleden
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara W Tuchman
The Civil War, Shelby Foote
Reflections in Bullough’s Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England, Diana Muir
Plagues and People, William H McNeill
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn
The Double Helix, James D. Watson



Hotwater

 

These are very special to me.

1. Man and His Symbols, Carl Jung
2. Solar Energy and Building, S. V. Szokolay
3. Solar Science Projects, D. S. Halacy
4. The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, Robert Brent
5. 100 Amazing Make-It-Yourself Science Fair Projects, Glen Vecchione
6. Amazing Models!: Gravity Power, Peter Holland
7. The Heavy Guitar Bible, Richard Daniels
8. The Family Creative Workshop Set, Various
9. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating book, 1975 Edition
10. Now You See It, Now You Don't! Bill Tarr

 

1. Sapiens: A brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
2. Biocentrism by Robert Lanza
3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel kahneman
5. The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins

 

Still one of my favs as well :cheers2:

 

My favorite non-fiction book is The Bible. Closely followed by The God Delusion.

 

Anything by Doris Kearns Goodwin

 

A new favorite is
"Merles Door" by Ted Kerasote

I did not see this mentioned so
Finite and Infinite Games
by James P. Carse

and while it may or may not be fiction
the "Teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castenda

 

The Killer Angels .... became the movie Gettysburg...

 

Aqualog
Loricariidae
U.Glaser.

Atlas
Catfish
Evers, Hans-Georg, Seidel, Ingo

Microcosm
Aquarium corals
Borneman

There are loads more!

Key publishing
Spitfire
Morgan & Shacklady

That’ll do for today!

 

Based on a true story

 

Many people erroneously believe this is a work if fiction, but Peter Weir knew better and with the help of a missing manuscript, directed the movie of the same name...

 

The Threat : Inside The Soviet Military Machine by Andrew Cockburn