Quick whats the best non-fiction book you've ever read

>>8634662
My War Gone By, I Miss it So

>>8634662
l'ancien regime et la revolution
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considerations sur la france

On Liberty is my favorite.
Practical Ethics is probably a close second though.

>>8634679
oh, also forgot about the Bible

>>8634689
>Bible
>Non-fiction

>>8634729
>nonfiction - a branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts or reality

Seems to fit.

>>8634662
Stalin:court of the red tsar by simon montefiore

>>8634784
how did saul die?

Ethical Intuitionism by Michael Huemer

Ive been reading a lot of non fiction. Political, social religious stuff mostly. But some of my favorites are more personal. Asylum by William Seabrook, the tiger: a true story of vengeance and survival, and Lament for a Nation by George Grant.

the iliad

Lord of the Rings

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Deserves a laughing-crying face and a pinching hand emoji t b h

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Pic related without a doubt

>>8635072
Tried to read this years ago in high school, but couldn't really grasp it. Might give it another shot.

>>8634672
This along with Dispatches. If you want information heavy books, non-fiction about art history is usually interesting.

GEB

Alison Weir's Against Our Better Judgment.

>>8634896
Every study Guthrie wrote on the greeks is GOATS 10/10

Biological Science: the Web of Life

>>8634662
Critic of Pure Reason obv.

>>8634662
History of the Second World War, Winston Churchill

Took me a few years to get through all six volumes. Was worth it. Sure, it's a heavily biased view and is loaded with contemporaneous documents & transcribed speeches, but the latter are indispensable while the former is unavoidable. He's a surprisingly good writer.

Capital

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DISCOURSES ON LIVY
Machiavelli

Anne Franks diary desu.

>>8634662
Worm

>>8634672
Great book my friend. I'd like to reread it someday

Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Dispatches by Michael Herr

Probably my favorite work about the Vietnam War

Does philosophy count?

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

>>8634662
The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark. If you have to pick a single book for the causes of ww1, this is the one.

>>8635887
A very respectable choice.

fast food nation, although of course you end up becoming yourself

Hells Angels by Hunter Thompson has always been my favourite.

The Disaster Artist.

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thanks nobel committee

>>8634662
Critique of Pure Reason by immanuel Kant

Metaphysics of Aristotle being a close second.

>>8636134
Nice taste anon

The Prince by Machiavelli.

Really opened my eyes as to how average people are manipulated every day.

>>8636259
I've read poetics and ethics by Aristotle, would you say that I need to read anything else by him to understand Metaphysics? I thought both of them to be really dry tbqhwyf

>>8634662
G.K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy".

>>8636299
>, would you say that I need to read anything else by him to understand Metaphysics?

If you have read, at least partly, Plato and the pre-socratics, then you are good to go, Metaphysics can stand very well on its own, He calls Metaphysics the "first philosophy" it is the basis, the fundamentals of his philosophy, then i´d say you can go directly to it if you want.

>>8635072
Had this downloaded for a while but never started it, might have to check it out

>>8634662
Words and Rules by Stephen Pinker

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It's an incredible read on the unimaginable horrors of war and the tenacity of the human spirit.

One of my favorite parts
>German soldier is wounded and waiting for an air evac at the airport
>Planes are full and the crews are literally pushing people out of the doors and shaking them off their wings as they take off
>Soldier decides to start crawling to Stalingrad, and eventually is passed by an artillery squad pulling a howitzer into the city
>he climbs up onto the barrel and passes out
>wakes up in the morning and sees the entire squad had sat down and froze to death during the night
>keeps crawling to Stalingrad