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What's your favourite non fiction book

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mancoon

Title^

Me, well I can't choose :P I like reading works by Eco, Goffman, Arrendt and Q.Skinner among others.

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Sisyphus

I read mostly fiction and Sci-Fi, but A Short History of Nearly Everything and Guns, Germs, and Steel are both great books. Really interesting stuff.

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viaI

psychology is fiction though

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whispersystems

+1 for titus livius. Gibbon is my favorite read on the subject.

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MuckPie

Pretty much any useless trivia book.

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tanim

God delusion

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ZweiCon

Basically any autobiography of important people.

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whispersystems

And which ones would be your favorites ?

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ZweiCon

(I know I'm gonna get some flak for this from certain people) A Doctor in the House by Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad was a good read in my opinion.

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greenhell

The Emperor and The Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski are my favourirtes

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whispersystems

Nice to see someone else read him, he isn't very known outside of his country.

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Bards

Nice read.

I'll add that I am from Iran.

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ZachMayer

The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

It's absolutely fascinating-- one of the best books I've ever read, fiction included.

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Bards

Harry potter

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mitem9106

that's fiction...

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Bards

no

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takotub0

don't mind him,he's a muggle.

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mitem9106

WHAT! i don't know what you are talking about... I AM BRIMMING WITH MAGICAL POWERS!!!

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awasmaji

Magically resurface after a month

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mitem9106

The Hot Zone, Stephen King called it the scariest book he's ever read.

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Blacky89

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

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takotub0

the bible?

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lcephoenix

It said "non fiction", dude.

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AvZ7

Shots fired

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lcephoenix

Jungle Child by Sabine Kuegler.

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ButtsCallhoun

The Art of War

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Redskull87

THe diary of colon and the Antonio Pigafetta books...That makes the statement of "factual" books see...like...that have a lot of "holes"...more the pigaffeta one :P. And don´t make me start with magical realism...that genre make a lot of literature critics have some reallyyyy bad days :D.

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Ocean8

My favourite one's definitely Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Honourable mention goes to Benny Morris' 1948 and After.

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CarlEric

The Hobbit :)

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