Best Nonfiction Books

While fiction books are very entertaining because it takes you away to secret worlds and different places, non-fiction books provide information on real events, places and people. Some non-fiction books provide an in-depth discussion on current pressing issues.

Here are some of the best non-fiction books which one must consider reading:

• The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
  Time Magazine, together with CNN, lists this as the best non-fiction book of 2007. This book is a discussion on how humans has greatly affected the environment in a negative way. It renders an analysis on the horrible ways humanity has affected the environment.
• The Second World War, Winston S. Churchill
  A unique viewpoint on the big story of that century. Respected British statesman Churchill deliberates the sweeping importance of the Second World War. The volumes provide intimate details on the war that changed human history.
• The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
  Henry Adams serve to critique the educational practices during his times. It analyzes the social, technological, and political changes he has encountered.
• The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand
  This book is a collection of essays which underscores the need of egoism as a means of practice. It provides an intellectual discussion on why selfishness is important.
• The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
  This book provides the series of lectures by Harvard psychologist and Philosopher, William James. The boo stipulates a discussion of several opposing ideas like proposition of values versus existential judgment, healthy mindedness versus the thick soul, and reality versus symbols of reality.
• A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
  A Room of One's Own is a sweeping essay by Virgina Woolf. It discusses women and their role in producing quality works, and how they are deprived of certain opportunities. She posits that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”
• The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  The Gulag Archipelago is a narrative on the Soviet forced labor. It was first in underground circulation due to its criticial content, but was then published officially in 1989. The term Gulag is an acronym for the Russian term Gulag", Glavnoye Upravleniye spravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey.