Favourite non-fiction?

[WanHeda]

I am looking to buy a new book with my amazon voucher, and fancy some non-fiction for a change. I have recently read Do No Harm by Henry Marsh, which I enjoyed.

What is your favourite non-fiction book?

Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban. I have no interest in sailing but found everything about this book fascinating.

Krakatoa: the day the world exploded

Bad Pharma

The Blank Slate

War Paint

I could go on and on but I'll leave it there

Thanks for this thread OP, some great tips I've filed away for later! I agree with vlad, Oliver Sacks is great. My favourite is Uncle Tungsten, about his childhood passion for chemistry. I also really like Max Perutz I wish I'd made you angry earlier (about science and life) and Georgina Ferry's biography of Dorothy Hodgkin.

Bumping as I'm mainly reading non-fiction just now, so will be getting some of the books recommended here.
I have recently read these and I'd recommend them all:
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower
All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot

I thought of some more that I have enjoyed:

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.

I am Malala

Nomad and Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I Shall Not Hate - Izzeldin Abuelaish

Feral - George Monbiot

And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts is an astounding, chilling read.

Seconding Hygellic's suggestion of Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. It was fascinating and much more readable than I first expected as it was a selection by my mum's book group and they generally choose very worthy stuff.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0041RRH72/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Knife Man -Great very readable book about John Hunter and the origins of modern surgery

www.amazon.co.uk/Stuff-Matters-Marvellous-Materials-Man-made-ebook/dp/B00AM7E4L2/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=146

Stuff matters about modern materials and their properties and discovery.