What are your top 3 favorite non fiction books?

Listem here! If you can detail them a little bit so we know what their about.

  • The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley (Great book that explains how evolution has shaped the planet)

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (Read the title. Should be mandatory reading for everyone on the planet)

  • The Prince by Machiavelli ("Controversial book about power in politics that shouldnt be controversial)

A Brief History of Time

The Physics of Superheroes

Creation: Life and How to Make It

The Book of Lists

2201 Fascinating Facts

The Top 10 of Everything 2007

Report to Greco: Kazantzakis

Conversations with Eckermann: Goethe

The story of civilization all 11 volumes: Durant

Kropotkin

A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
Principia Ethica - G. E. Moore
The Affluent Society - John Kenneth Galbraith*

  • Ask me tomorrow, you’ll get 3 different ones.

Not my favourites, just 3 books I’ve read and recommend.

Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis
Island - Aldous Huxley
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

edit:
misread the question :smiley:

How The Mind Works --Steven Pinker

The 48 Laws of Power --Robert Greene

The Periodic Table --Primo Levi

Just out of curiosity…Have you read Robert Greenes 33 Strategies of War or Art of Seduction? What did you think?

  1. The Chemical Rubber Company’s Handbook of Cemistry and Physics

  2. Any of the books by Richard Feynman

  3. Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (Part 1 anyway)

…didn’t fancy reading the former, but read the latter, coz I’m a lover not a fighter :wink:
:romance-lovegoddess: :romance-grouphug: :romance-lovegoddess:

I was surprised at what others would do for a taste of love/to get their target - boredom + time = plotting against others for one’s own gain: be that love, money, power, resource… the usual remit of wants.

I did skim through The Art of War and saw nothing new there…

Hiroshima in America
Nietzsche bios
The Rise and fall of the 3rd reich