Keep it non-fiction.
What should be next on my reading list? I’m open to just about everything. There are TOO MANY interesting good books to read, but I was wondering if you could help me pin-point a few that you thought were exceptional!
Thanks! 
Rather broad category, care to give us hints about what you like?
Well, I like hockey, politics, and biographies. But I want to expand my horizons, so to speak.
Well, if you want to really get with the SDMB program, you really should read Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel.
(To really get with the program, of course, you need to buy and read Triumph of the Straight Dope, The Straight Dope Tells All, Return of the Straight Dope,
More of the Straight Dope, The Straight Dope.)
To make some of our more philosophically bent members happy, you might consider Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
Nickeled and Dimed*, by Barbara What’s-her-name
Ehrenreich. I thought I was the only person that liked it when she transformed into a crazy radical at the end! 
I only read certain sections in Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid because i got extremely distracted after looking at some of mc eschers art. I can honestly say that i hated art until i understood escher and picasso’s work. Gotta finish that book.
Some other recommendations:
Fast Food Nation, ZAMM, Franklin’s bio, and a few off-topic books like the elegant universe and hyperspace.
Ive never read it but Reading Lolita in Tehran looks pretty good.
The Cosmic Serpent by Dr Jeremy Narby.
Ishmael, My Ishmael, and The Story of B by Daniel Quinn.
The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler (the 1st chapter is hard to read, but the rest is good).
Fast Food Nation by some guy, I forget his name.
These are my favorite non-fiction books.
Oh. I also love anything written by Howard Zinn. Fun History.
If you like biography and science, I can recommend anything by Oliver Sacks, although my personal favourite was “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat”.
I have a screaming headache today
So you could have posted this in cafe Society OR checked out this threadnon fiction books
A book called Hacksaw, but I forget the author’s name ! It’s about the life of a guy (whose nickname is Hacksaw:p), and how he broke out of all these prisions and chain gangs and stuff. I found it interesting.
“Beloved” by Toni Morrison
or “A Virtuous Woman” by Gibbons.
If you like biographical stuff, Irving Stone wrote a nice read about the life and love of John and Abigail Adams entitled “Those Who Love”.
Other than that…Stephen King is always a good spur of the moment decision. Hehe
“Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use” by Jacob Sullum. It’s an interesting and well-reasoned argument for legalizing drugs, and a hard look at the American “War on Drugs”.
Definitely a great tool in the fight against ignorance!
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman is a wonderful book. After you’ve read that, you should read What Do You Care What Other People Think?, written by Feynman and his friend Ralph Leighton, and Tuva or Bust! by Leighton.
I don’t know physics, but I know I like Feynman.
Some nonfiction stuff I’ve enjoyed recently:
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The cruelest miles : the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic by Gay Salisbury
The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karlu by Jennifer Niven
If you like history, try Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror.
Investigate the many topics John McPhee has written books about – good ones to start with are Rising From The Plains (about the Rocky Mountains) and Basin And Range.
Check out Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon.
John Keegan first became famous for The Face of Battle, which is fascinating whether or not you’re into military history. He’s written a number of other books as well.
Some of the science is outdated, but it’s still a darn good read: Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser.
When you finish Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, check out his Into the Wild.
I have plenty more, but that should keep you busy.
The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay - A fictional coming of age story that is so amazingly good.
Moving this to Cafe Society.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - by Dee Alexander Brown
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This is a great book. If you have any feelings at all…it will piss the hell out of you.
I know it did me.