favorite non-fiction books?

I just realized that no one every really talks about non-fiction books. my favorite are:

-'The diet for teenagers only', can't remember the authors names at the moment. this is an awesome book. i'm not fat but this isnt really a diet. its more about living healthy and knowing how to eat well-balanced meals and how much of what foods you should eat per day depending on your bmi and stuff. its awesome. sometimes i read it just for fun. plus its one of those non-fics that are fun to read and it attracts you because its all pretty colors and nicely laid out and what not.

my other favorite is cookbooks. any kind. i just love them. i like to go through them sometimes and just read the recipes and think of meals surrounding a certain recipe. im a cooking nerd. my favorite cookbook is 'teens cook'(in my pants) and i cant remember the authors name of that either but its two sisters named meg and jill something i think.

so what are you favorite non-fics?

DFTBA
mariah

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Permalink Reply by Ivy Perez on August 9, 2009 at 12:14am: I haven't read many non-fic books either, but I really loved 'Stiff' by Mary Roach, 'Nickel and Dimed,' by Barbara Ehrenreich, and 'Freakonomics.'; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by aPlatinumMtZion on August 10, 2009 at 8:20pm: I do my best to be a Science Nerdfighter even though MATH IS TERRIFYING, so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction lately. More nonfiction than fiction, actually.

The following find a particularly wonderful middle ground between "enlightening" and "enjoyable":
Prettty much anything by Richard Dawkins (o'course)
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
Remarkable Creatures by Sean B. Carroll
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
Rapture Ready by Daniel Radosh
Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jussi on August 11, 2009 at 12:10pm: As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto =]

very depressing book, but good...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jedwin the Nerdfighting Runner on August 11, 2009 at 7:50pm: The Bible
and that massive chess book that Polgar wrote
Black Diamond
The Communist Manifesto; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by XOX on September 9, 2009 at 7:22pm: The bible is fictional. This thread is for non-fiction.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wearsredsox on August 11, 2009 at 8:13pm: Good call on the Bible :)

I love Marley and Me (and the movie mostly did it justice for once!) by John Grogan
and
Dewey... can't remember who wrote it and I'm too lazy to go over to my bookshelf and see but it's about a library cat in Iowa and it's really sweet.

Can you tell I'm a sucker for animal stories?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Madeline on August 11, 2009 at 8:32pm: i read a book called Ninja: The Shadow Warrior, but I can't remeber who it's by. But it was really interesting to learn all the facts about ninjas. I also have one on pirates and samauri, but I still have to read those. Learning can be fun!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris Noneedtoknowmylast on August 18, 2009 at 8:06am: My absolute favorite nonfiction book would have to be 'Hot Zone' by Richard Preston. Yeah, it's a tad gory, but it was tthe first whole nonfiction book I read the whole way through. Oh, yeah. and 'Running With Scissors by Agusten Boroughs' (I think that's his name anyways. I might have spelled it wrong.) so funny!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by phloxyloxy on August 18, 2009 at 3:32pm: Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss was enjoyable.

What I've read by David Sedaris has always made me laugh. The latest would be When You Are Engulfed in Flames.

Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent was really interesting! She disguised herself as a man for a year and wrote about how she was treated differently and how she could find herself acting differently. It's totally subjective, of course, but still good food for thought.

Um, The Austrians: A Thousand-Year Odyssey by Gordon Brook-Shepherd - wouldn't appeal to a wide audience, but since this is about *my* favorite non-fiction, I have to list it.

And Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer) and The Climb (Anatoli Boukreev) about Mt. Everest were both really good. But I'm in a reading-about-Mt-Everest-disasters phase at the moment, so yeah.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Charles Cranly on August 18, 2009 at 5:54pm: Simplexity (i think thats how it is spelled), crazy epically cool book. Its how about how simple things are actually complex and how complex things are simple. A very good read.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lucia on August 21, 2009 at 2:23pm: I am slightly prejudiced when it comes to non-fiction, but there are some good books out there.

My favorite was probably Obama's "Dreams from my Father". Not because it's his but because it deals with roots and family issues and searching for your own self between different cultural identities and groups.

I recall reading some really cool books on mahematics and logic that made me love those subjects as a kid, but I don't remember any exact titles.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by 98petowner89 on August 22, 2009 at 6:22pm: I only recall one at the moment because I'm still reading it and it's one of my favorite non-fiction books. And one of my all-time favorites it is 'Frida: A biograpy of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera'. It's amazing how much you can say about a person's very amazing and tragic life. Really great book about a really great woman. A painter. And I only read it because I don't really read non-fiction at all so I decided to try.; ▶ Reply to This