Good Non-Fiction Books

[nicky g]

Non-fiction is a pretty big category. People can recommend good recent non-fiction books but otherwise saying what kind of subjects you're interested in would narrow it down a lot.

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, about the Spanish Civil War, is a classic. Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk about the 1975-1990 Lebanon wars (mostly) is pretty amazing. I'm enjoying his new book even though it's absurdly huge and doesn't have much of a focus. Each chapter is fascinating even if it's clearly just a collection of his journalism presented as a proper book.