Non-Fiction Book Suggestions

You don't have to pick from this list, but here are a few ideas of some good non-fiction books.

Conservationist Manifesto- Scott Russell Sanders
Nonzero- Robert Wright
Moral Animal- Robert Wright
Audacity of Hope: Barack Obama
Bananas: Peter Chapman
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Jean Dominque Bauby
The Professor and the Madman: Simon Winchester
Rogue Economics: Napoleoni
The Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx
Achilles in Vietnam: Sway
Farwell to Manzanar: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Cod: Mark Kurlansky
Three Cups of Tea: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Social Contract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Travels with Charley: John Steinbeck
The Snow Leopard: Peter Matthiessen
How to Read Literature like a Professor: Thomas C. Foster
Angela’s Ashes: Frank McCourt
The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students: Suzanne Jurmain
The Informant: A True Story: Kurt Eichenwald
The Shopkeeper: James D. Best
In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War: David Reynolds
The Year of Yes: Maria Dahvana Headley
Black Elk Speaks: Black Elk
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou
Cotton: Christopher Wilson
Salt: A World History: Mark Kurlansky
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P. Pierce
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II : Douglas A. Blackmon
The Post-American World: Fareed Zakaria
The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen William Hawking
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama
Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women - T. Sharpley-Whiting
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare - Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.;
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela - Nelson Mandela
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Martin Luther King Jr.; The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: Saul Friedlander
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth - Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley - Malcolm X
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala - Rigoberta Menchu
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo - Hayden Herrera
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism - Muhammad Yunus
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. - Luis J. Rodriguez
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea - JaHyun Kim Haboush
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11: Lawrence Wright Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya: Caroline Elkins Ghost Wars: The Secret History of The CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet by Steve Coll Gulag: A History: Anne Applebaum A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide: Samantha Power Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution: Diane McWhorter Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan: Herbert P. Bix Embracing Defeat: John W. Dower Annals of the Former World: John McPhee Guns, Germs, and Steel: Jared Diamond Ashes to Ashes : Richard Kluger The Haunted Land: Tina Rosenberg The Beak of the Finch: Jonathan Weiner Lenin's Tomb: David Remnick Lincoln at Gettysburg: Garry Wills The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power: Daniel Yergin The Ants: Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson And Their Children After Them: Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: Neil Sheehan The Making of the Atomic Bomb: Richard Rhodes Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land: David K. Shipler Common Ground: J. Anthony Lukas
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House: Jon Meacham Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father: John Matteson The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher: Debby Applegate American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin De Kooning: An American Master: Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan Khrushchev: The Man and His Era: William Taubman Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Robert A. Caro John Adams: David McCullough W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963: David Levering Lewis Véra: Stacy Schiff Lindbergh: A. Scott Berg Personal History: Katharine Graham God: A Biography: Jack Miles Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life: Joan D. Hedrick W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919: David Levering Lewis Truman: David McCullough Fortunate Son: Lewis B. Puller Jr. Jackson Pollock: Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith Machiavelli in Hell: Sebastian de Grazia Oscar Wilde: Richard Ellmann Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe: David Herbert Donald Bearing the Cross: David J. Garrow Louise Bogan: A Portrait: Elizabeth Frank
The Hemingses of Monticello: Annette Gordon-Reed What God Hath Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848: Daniel Walker Howe The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation: Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff Polio: An American Story: David M. Oshinsky Washington's Crossing: David Hackett Fischer A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration: Steven Hahn An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943: Rick Atkinson The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America: Louis Menand Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation: Joseph J. Ellis Freedom from Fear: David M. Kennedy Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898: Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace Summer for the Gods: Edward J. Larson Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution: Jack N. Rakove William Cooper's Town: Alan Taylor No Ordinary Time: Doris Kearns Goodwin The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Gordon S. Wood The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties: Mark E. Neely Jr. A Midwife's Tale: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines: Stanley Karnow Battle Cry of Freedom: James M. McPherson And Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63: Taylor Branch The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1976: Robert V. Bruce Voyagers to the West: Bernard Bailyn The Heavens and the Earth: Walter A. McDougall
The Forever War: Dexter Filkins This Republic of Suffering: Drew Gilpin Faust The Dark Side: Jane Mayer White Protestant Nation: Allan J. Lichtman From Colony to Superpower: George C. Herring
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Paula Giddings The Bin Ladens: Steve Coll The World Is What It Is by Patrick French--Winner!The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed White Heat by Brenda Wineapple
Why I Came Wes: Rick Bass The House on Sugar Beach: Helene Cooper The Bishop's Daughter: Honor Moore The Eaves of Heaven: Andrew X. Pham My Father's Paradise: Ariel Sabar