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Favorite non-fiction books

I loved Beyond the Band of Brothers by Maj. Dick Winters
 
God's delusion by Richard Dawkins I guess, but I prefer to read fiction books.
 
Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson. Hands down the best single volume historical book on the US Civil War, IMO.
 
I very much enjoyed John McEnroe's autobiography.

Ben Macintyre's Agent Zig-Zag is another.

i could list countless books on cars,music and ales, but their credibility really stems from my own interest in these things rather than their credibility as a work of non-fiction.
 
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Excellent book!

Thanks for the recommendation/reminder to read this book-- it has been on my 'must read' list for quite some time, but I've been distracted. I'll definitely read it shortly.
 
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje (Changed the way I watch movies forever. Definitely interesting enough to not just be for film students)

History major here so some of my favorite history related books would have to be:

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Baghdad Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew by Sasson Somekh

Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz

Populuxe by Thomas Hine (1950's cultural history book)

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jassinoff

The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern by Carla Hesse
 
Just one? Impossible. Some of my favourites:

The Ancestor's Tale (Richard Dawkins)
My European Family: The First 44,000 Years (Karin Bojs)
Through the Shadowlands (Julie Rehmeyer)
If This is a Man (Primo Levi)
How Not to Be Wrong (Jordan Ellenberg)
Quiet (Susan Cain)
 
The Man Who Thought His Wife Was a Hat - which is a collection of stories of rare neurological disorders. The titular story is a man whose brain would make bizarre associations, and in that case he was leaving the doctor's office and looked at his wife, and his brain went "My wife>my wife's head>hats go on heads>that must be a hat" and he literally tried to grab his wife's head with the intention of wearing it.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman was a theoretical physicist and one of the great scientific minds of his generation, but he was also very witty and a great storyteller. His autobiography is a really easy and interesting read.

Madam Secretary - The autobiography of Madeleine Albright, who was the first female Secretary of State.

Jack Welch and the G.E. Way - a great business book.

Opening The Xbox - the story of how Microsoft decided to build their gaming console. At the time, there was a big internal debate about whether to focus their available resources on video games, or WEBTV (which was a device for accessing the Internet through your TV, back in the days of dial-up.)

The Weather Channel - The story of how they conceived and implemented a national weather channel on TV. It's a dry topic, but it's full of stories about making complicated deals and negotiations to get information flowing from state to state, back before there was an Internet to speak of.
 
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