What is your favorite nonfiction book?

I didn't know The Smartest Guys in the Room was a book. I've seen the movie and loved it. I like nonfiction books too a lot of times, such as Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser and speaking of him, Fast Food Nation as well. The Great Influenza was another good nonfiction book.

I really enjoyed Freakonomics, some of the things they compared to each other in that book was really wild. I also loved Eat, Pray, Love. I felt so adventurous after reading that book, I felt like if she could do all these things than so can I.

its either Noah's Flood or Volcanoes in Human History, I've actually read that one twice

That's a good question. I like alot of biographies, for isntance Woody Guthrie's biography was very interesting as was Jackie O's. I even read a biography of Warren G. Harding who was presiedent during the twenties. It was very interesting as well.

I guess I'll chime in like a lightning rod. I grew up among people who thought the bible was non-fiction... and The Only Book.

I have a couple of books about "real" hauntings, one is called Coast to Coast Ghosts, written by Leslie Rule, Ann Rule's daughter. She traveled around the U.S., visiting haunted places, homes, hotels, businesses, cemeteries.... and published a journal of her journey. It's a little sterile in places but overall pretty interesting. I also have a very used and abused/loved copy of Bulfinch's Mythology. Ever since I was a little kid mythology and the stories of King Arthur have fascinated me (and Bulfinch has both). For most of my young life, until high school, my knowledge of mythology was limited to what was contained in the Encyclopedia Americana (which was pretty extensive in some cases, not so much in others) and then in high school we started really studying the stories, which is when I bought Bulfinch - to read the stories we didn't cover in depth in the literature classes.

It would have to be Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom. It was such a great book. I was like teary-eyed when I got into some really dramatic part. It was such an inspirational book and I think you would really learn a lot of things about life and how you could be a better person if you read this one. I'm not surprised that this book is a best-seller. Mitch Albom did a great job telling about him and Morrie's story. Totally great.

I truly enjoyed Having Our Say by the Delany Sisters; I love reading about other people's lives; that I enjoy. I also loved reading Mickey Rooney's auto, A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown(her life), Life is so Good by George Dawson(an older fella who learned to read close to age 100)Maya Angelou's autos will be a favorite. And for self improvement, Look In, Look Out, Look Up by Joyce Vedral is another.

Mine changes from year to year, month to month, sometimes day to day. In the past ten years, of the books I've read, perhaps Joseph Stiglitz "Globalisation and its Discontents" or Rita Gross "Buddhism After Patriarchy", or Morris Berman "The Re-enchantment of the World", or David Suzuki "Time to Change" or M S Schumacher "Small is Beautiful", or ..... Lash

mine is Diary of Anne Frank. I also love to read business books..

My favorite is Tuesdays with Morrie. I read that book for a class in college and it immediately became my favorite book of all time. Since then I've recommended the book to several people and have read it myself several times. You should read it! :-)