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My Favourite Non-Fiction Books
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This list of non-fiction book recommendations is based entirely on my personal readings over the past several years. The important point about this list is all the books are good relative to each other. So if you like one, chances are you will like most others.
I am a generalist as opposed to a specialist. I feel there is more to be gained by learning a little about everything rather than learning everything about a little thing. If you also subscribe to this philosophy then you will find my recommendations quite useful. Feel free to contact me with any other books to add to this list. I will do my best to read or hear it and evaluate its merit relative to this list.
My
List of Books on Shelfari
Autobiography , Memoirs and Life stories
- A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer
- Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
- I am Spock by Leonard Nimoy
- It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
- A Life In Leadership by John Whitehead
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track by Richard P. Feynman
- "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" - by Richard Phillips Feynman
- Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper
- Ragman's Son [Audiobook] by Douglas, Kirk
- American Hostage [Abridged] [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette] by Garen, Micah.
- Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI
- Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Youngest and Most Daring Con
- Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela [Abridged] [Audiobook...
- WHEN YOU'RE FROM BROOKLYN EVERYTHING ELSE IS TOKYO by King, Larry
- Nothing Is Impossible [Unabridged] [Audio Cassette] by Reeve, Christopher
- Dirty Jokes and Beer [Abridged] [Audio Cassette] by Carey, Drew
- Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail [Abridged] [Audio Cassette] by...
- Den of Lions: Memoirs of Seven Years by Anderson, Terry A.
- Days of Grace : A Memoir [Audio Cassette] by Ashe, Arthur
- Ice Bound : A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
- Tuesdays With Morrie : An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson...
- Live from the Battlefield by Peter Arnett
- Aaron Spelling by Aaron Spelling * Autobiography
- John Glenn - A Memoir
- Chasing Down the Dawn: Life Stories [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK] (Audio Cassette) by Jewel (Narrator)
- Revenge: A Story of Hope [Abridged] [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette] by Blumenfeld
- Time / CBS People of The Century
- Pryor Convictions, Richard Pryor
- Lucky Man, Michael J. Fox
- Leading with my Chin by Jay Leno
- Everything and a Kite by Ray Romano
Business
- Sam Walton: Made In America
- Investing for Dummies by Eric Tyson
- Freakonomics Rev Ed CD: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (Audio CD - 2006)
- How to get Rich by Donald Trump
- The MouseDriver Chronicles [Hardcover] by Lusk, John; Harrison, Kyle
- Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Semler
- Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Sixty Countries
- How to Buy a Good Business with Little or None of Your Own Money by Haines...
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets Of Americas Wealthy [Abridged
- Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry [Audiobook] [Audio
- dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath
- Forbes Great Minds Of Business [Abridged] [Audio Cassette] by Smith, Fred...
- Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
- New New Thing, The : A Silicon Valley Story (Nova Audio Books)
- The Road Ahead [Audio Cassette] by Gates, Bill; Adamson, Rick
- NY Times Pocket MBA Series - 12 Titles
- Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur [ABRIDGED...
- Real Estate Riches: How to Become Rich Using Your Banker's Money
- Trump by Donald Trump
- GRINDING IT OUT, Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc Audio
- Dave's Way , Dave Thomas (Wendy's Founder)
- The E-Myth Revisited: Michael Gerber
- What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School: Notes From A Street-Smart Executive by Mark H. McCormack
- On Selling by Mark H. McCormack
- The Autobiography of Henry Ford
Sociology/ Pyschology / Philosophy
- Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus by John Gray
- Backstabbers, Crazed Geniuses, and Animals we Hate - The writers of Slate's assessment column tell it like it is , edited by David Plotz
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
- The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki
- Crazy by Pete Earley
- The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama (Paperback - 2006)
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- Games People Play by Berne, Eric Md
- Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds by Mackay, Charles
- The social animal (A series of books in psychology) by Aronson, Elliot
- Love Adds a Little Chocolate: 100 Stories to Brighten Your Day and Sweeten Your
- The Protestant establishment: aristocracy & caste in America, by Baltzell, E
Travel
- Culture Shock! Japan by P. Sean Bramble
- Culture Shock! Brazil by Volker Poelzl by Zafar Ihsan , Karin Mittmann
- Culture Shock! Pakistan by Zafar Ihsan , Karin Mittmann
- The Best American Travel Writing 2000 and 2003
- Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon
- Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald
- The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
- Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town: by Paul Theroux
- Great Railway Bazaar by Theroux, Paul
- The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
- Old Patagonian Express by Theroux, Paul
- Riding the Iron Rooster [Mass Market Paperback] by Theroux, Paul
- Shadows in the Sun: Travels To Landscapes Of Spirit And Desire
War
- Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides
- The VICTORS : Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose
- From Beirut to Jersualem by Thomas Friedman
- American Soldier by Tommy R. Franks
- A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal by Asne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen
- Beyond Survival ( A Vietnams War POW's... ) by Gerald Coffee
- Death in the Jungle : Diary of a Navy SEAL [Abridged]
- Behind the Lines : Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters and
- Big Red : Three Months Onboard a Trident Nuclear Submarine [Abridged] [Audio
- War Letters : Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars [Abridged] by...
- War: Stories of Life & Death From WWII
- Voices from the Front (1996) WW1 Audio Book
- Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne
- ART OF WAR - AUDIO (Shambhala Lion Editions) [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette] by...
- Great True Spy Stories by Allen Dulles
Science
- Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science by Richard Preston
- The Genius Factory, The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank by David Plotz
- Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
- A Cabinet of Medical Curiousities by by Jan Bondeson
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach ( Audio CD )
- Great Minds of Science: with Discover Magazine
- The Best American Science Writing 2000, editor James Gleick
- Survival of the Sickest : A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease by Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince
- Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
- How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
- Understanding Calculus by Faraz Hussain
- Love, Medicine & Miracles [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK] (Audio Cassette) by Bernie S. Siegel (Author), Siegel Bernie S. (Narrator)
- The Medicine of Er by Ross, Alan Duncan; Duncan,
- Maneater : And Other True Stories of a Life in Infectious Diseases
- Pale Blue Dot [Abridged] by Sagan, Carl
- Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space [Audio Cassette] by Asimov, Isaac...
- Twentieth Century Discovery by Isaac Asimov
Adventure
- Fire by Sebastian Junger
- Red Sky In Mourning: The True Story of a Woman's Courage and Survival at Sea [AUDIOBOOK] [UNABRIDGED] (Audio Cassette) by Tami Oldham Ashcraft
- Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip by Dayton Duncan (Narrator), Ken Burns (Narrator), Tom Hanks (Narrator)
- Albatross: The True Story of a Woman's Survival at Sea [Abridged]
- The Raft : 34 days adrfit in the Pacific by Trumbull
- Rescue : Stories of Survival from Land, Sea and Sky (Adrenaline (Audio...
- Survive: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals
- Rough Water
- Storm: Survival From Land And Sea
- The Darwin Awards: Evolution In Action
- The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection
- Darwin Awards III
- Worst-Case Scenario Handbook
- Report from Engine Co. 82 [Abridged] [Audio Cassette] by Smith, Dennis
Law and Crime
- Fatal Subtraction: How Hollywood Really Does Business by Pierce O'Donnell
- Underboss by Peter Maas ( Sammy the Bull Story of Life in the Mafia )
- Tears of Rage by John Walsh
- Justice: Crimes, Trials, And Punishments by Dominick Dunne
- Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder...
- In Cold Blood by Capote, Truman
- The Prosecutors
Humor
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
- The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
- Comedy Death Ray 2007 - LA's premiere comedy show by Comedy Central Records
- Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition by The Onion
- Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy and Jerry Seinfeld
- Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
- Couplehood by Paul Reiser
- Dispatches From The Tenth Circle : The best of the ONION headlines and stories through 2000
- Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin
- The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
- Dave Barry does Japan by Dave Barry
- Other People's Dirt
Miscellaneous
- This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison (Editor)
- Esquire Presents: What It Feels Like: *To Walk on the Moon*To Be Gored by a Bull*To Survive an Avalanche *To Swallow Swords*To Go Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel*To Be Shot in the Head
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
- The Jeopardy! by Alex Trebek
- A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds by Michael Farquhar
- Sacred Hoops Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior by Phil Jackson
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Audio CD) by Jared Diamond
- Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy and Triumph of ASA Flight 529 by Gary M. Pomerantz
- The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro by Joe McGinniss
- The Courage to Give: Inspiring Stories of People Who Triumphed over Tragedy to
- The Gatekeepers by Steinberg, Jacques
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (unbridged) [Audiobook]
- Great Speeches of the 20th Century (Rhino Word Beat) [Audio Cassette] by Skene
- The Nanny Diaries [Abridged] [Audio Cassette] by McLaughlin, Emma; Kraus...
- On Writing : A Memoir Of The Craft [Unabridged] by King, Stephen
- Best of Npr: Eyewitness to History Abridged [Audio Cassette] by National...
- PLATO Greek philosopher justice
- The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
- Confessions of a Street Addict by James Cramer
- Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis--Lessons from a Master by Brad Gilbert, Steve Jamison
- Squash Racquets: The Khan Game by Hashim Khan