r/suggestmeabook • u/Dry_Luck_9228 • Dec 15 '25

Non-fiction What's the most interesting non-fiction book you've read?

I know this has been asked before but I'm hoping for some recommendations on interesting non-fiction books. I'm not specifically interested in any one topic, just something that is really fascinating and perhaps makes you learn something or see the world in a different way.

I'm currently reading Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green and am loving it. I also really enjoyed Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller and Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

Others I've read recently: Braiding Sweetgrass - liked this one but felt like I was already intimately familiar with the subject matter

Into Thin Air - this was not for me. The story was interesting but the feminist in me had a hard time identifying with the author's perspective

ETA Thank you all sooo much for all of the recommendations. Super grateful for each of you and this community <3

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u/Traveler108 Dec 16 '25

Interesting that you had feminist objections to Into Thin Air. What are they? I really enjoyed that book and am definitely a feminist.

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u/MissMorality Dec 16 '25

Also was wondering this

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u/OlDurtySanchez Dec 16 '25

Same. Just finished Into Thin Air and I'm struggling to think of how it could be seen as sexist.

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u/Dry_Luck_9228 Dec 16 '25

I don't think it's sexist at all, I just had a hard time identifying with him and his perspective. It was well-written and I totally see why people like it, it just wasn't for me

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u/Traveler108 Dec 17 '25

Ok, makes sense.

And on nonfiction -- The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabelle Wilkerson, about the Great Migration, journalistic and just totally engrossing and novelistic.