Just some of my favourite non-fiction:
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (laugh out loud funny)
- A Short History of Nearly Everything (for anyone NOT with a science background mostly, but very funny with tons of anecdotes)
- The Brain that Changes Itself (on neuroplasticity)
- Life and Death in Shanghai (political prisoner in the Cultural Revolution)
- The Walmart Effect
- The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz (why too much choice can be a bad thing)
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- Collapse (lesser known but amazing by Jared Diamond about how and why societies collapse)
- Bitter Chocolate by Carol Off (about the not so lovely history of the chocolate industry)
- The Brain that Changes Itself
- My Stroke of Insight
- Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
- Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin
I could add more but I'll stop here for now!
