Any non-fiction suggestions out there?

Max Hastings - All Hell Let Loose.

It's a complete factual account of WW2, including anecdotes and comments from RW people which makes it very powerful.

Not an easy read, actually it makes depressing reading about the futility and brutality of man taking arms against fellow man. But it does explain a lot about so many things.

I'd second/third Nothing To Envy, Prisoners of Geography and Let IT Go, they're all really good.

I read a fair bit of non-fiction, particularly politics / economics / sociological. Over the last couple of years I've particularly enjoyed
The Life Project by Helen Pearson (absolutely fascinating book about longitudinal cohort studies and what we've learned from them)
Being Mortal by Henry Marsh (about our attitudes to ageing and mortality)
Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge (about the lives - and deaths - of all the children killed by guns on one single day in the US)
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil (about how computer algorithms invisibly affect our lives)
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh (about how the author spent time living with the gangs on the South side of Chicago)
Watching the English by Kate Fox - about what it means to be English

Nothing to envy is very good.

I recently read Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall, which is about geopolitics and how countries' foreign policy is shaped by their geography. It sounds dry but is fascinating.

Two that I have on my Kindle ready to read...

Let IT Go: The Memoirs of Dame Stephanie Shirley

'Nothing to Envy' by Barbara Demick about life in North Korea

Underground by Haruki Murakami is brilliant - interviews with survivors of the tokyo sarin gas attack. Really fascinating insight into Japanese culture and how cults draw in otherwise sensible people

I'm currently enjoying the audiobook of A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking.

And my mum has just finished and recommended This is going to hurt by Adam Kay, so that's next on my list.

Neurotribes is brilliant, as is The Tale of Duelling Neuroscientists.

I've also read a lot of Francis Spufford over the past few months who crosses the fiction/nonfiction boundary often. My favourite of his was Red Plenty which I thought was completely astounding, about the late 50s in the Soviet Union, an extraordinary mix of research, fact and fictionalisation.

Two I've got on my own list to read next are The Woman In the Body (about menstruation through the ages) and The Body Keeps The Score (about trauma I think).