what are the must-read non-fiction books?

Question

I want to increase my non-fiction reading instead of fiction, any suggestions?

Answer 1

Blood, Sweat, and Tears by Winston Churchill; The Autobiography of Malcolm X; The Armies of the Night by Norman Maiiler; Zelda by Zelda Fitzgerald (wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald; In Cold Blood by Truman Capote...will provide a fine start and lead you to others.

Answer 2

It depends on how old you are, and what interests you the most. However, there ‎are some basic non-fiction readings that we all have to read some time during our ‎life to broaden our common sense and the ability to understand what we might ‎read later on, such as the Bible, the Quraan and the Old Testament. Then, the next ‎step is the great writings of the classical philosophers and theorians, such as ‎Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and the like of the Greek era. Then the books of wisdom ‎written by Sanskrit sages and Indian swamis of the Self-realization series. ‎Theorians, by the way, are the least likely to be enjoyed as they tend to be too ‎detailed for a casual serious reader.‎

Answer 3

For philosophy, I advise written works by Ayn Rand which includes the Virtues of Selfishness (truly opens your eyes), Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays, The Republic by Plato (which I loved), Utopia by Thomas extra (yet get a modernized version because the unique is truly confusing to study), the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, and seem into stuff by Nietzsche, it really is what i have tried yet by no ability were given round to it. wish this helped!

Answer 4

I always go for biographies or autobiographies. I have recently read a bunch of books on Buddhism, Thich Nhat Hans " the heart of the buddhas teaching" is good, if you'd be into that kind of thing. What else is there? history, memiors...I've also read quite a bit of art history lateley. books on Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg

Answer 5

Anything about WWII that you can get your grubby hands on! For some different WWII history, try "The Rape of Nanking"--very gruesome, but even more qruesome because it's true (at least for the most part).

"Anne Frank" is the WWII novel that everyone seems to love--along with "Night" since it was in Oprah's book club or something.

Answer 6

Mistress Quickly has some good ideas, defo read In Cold Blood

Answer 7

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality

Answer 8

If you want to understand what happened in the 20th century, the moderns: Kant, Nietzsche, Freud.

Answer 9

Freakonomics.

It's economics... only interesting. It compares crack dealers and teachers, or sumo wrestlers and teacgers, I don't remember. That's not all it's about, though. It's really fun, and not hard to read.

Answer 10

The Bible!!!!!!