What's the best non-fiction book you've read

[nater]

I read Blackhawk Down this summer, thought it was pretty good. I think my favorite is the Hurricane (Rubin Carter biography).

 

[Bkas]

Most recently...Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.

 

[abaez]

Fast Food Nation

 

[DnetMHZ]

"Goodfellas" was a good read.. and a great movie!

 

[Alphathree33]

The Story of Mathematics

EDIT: Aside from school-related textbook reading, news articles, etc., I think that's the ONLY non-fiction book I've ever read. Hmm.

 

[HombrePequeno]

Tesla: Man of Lightning

 

[ElFenix]

citizen soldiers.

i'm going to read "we now know" sometime soon. when i run out of fiction. i think.

 

[Synoptic]

We Were Soldiers Once...And Young (Basis of the Mel Gibson movie, We were soldiers)
that and everything I have read on the 1900 Hurricane that hit galveston - The most devastating Natural disaster in the US, killed over 6000 people. Anyway...

 

[EvilYoda]

Well, of a biographical nature, probably something like "Tuesdays with Morrie".....but of anything non-fiction, it'd probably be a physics/math book, something along the lines of Michiko Kaku or Hawkings...maybe Feynman?

That'll probably all change after I read "The Universe in a Nutshell" or "A Whole New Kind of Science"

 

[nord1899]

Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig

 

[Haircut]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Well, of a biographical nature, probably something like "Tuesdays with Morrie".....but of anything non-fiction, it'd probably be a physics/math book, something along the lines of Michiko Kaku or Hawkings...maybe Feynman?

That'll probably all change after I read "The Universe in a Nutshell" or "A Whole New Kind of Science"

The universe in a nutshell wasn't all that great IMO, it seemed too dumbed down with far too many pretty pictures and not much actual information.

I really liked Hyperspace by Michio Kaku.

 

[HombrePequeno]

I really liked Hyperspace by Michio Kaku.

If you want a more detailed view of string theory, you might want to check out The Elegant Universe.