Re: good non-strategy poker books
The Biggest Game in Town by A. Alvarez is a great read about the professional poker scene in Las Vegas. Written in the early '80s, it's a very different world than the glamour world of today.
Read 'Em and Weep, edited by John Stravinsky. Quoting from the back cover, "A literary tour of the wide world of poker, from the Wild West to the present day." Published in 2004, this is a collection of 39 nuggets of pure poker gold. Most selections are less than 10 pages long, so they make for quick reading. A fascinating break when you're tired of calculating M, Q, reverse implied odds, and SPR's.
I'll add my vote for Poker Nation and Positively Fourth ... I mean Fifth ... Street.
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