These are the ones I&#x27;ve liked best<p>Neal Thompson - &quot;Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR&quot;<p>Dee Brown - &quot;Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee&quot;<p>Nicholas Johnson - &quot;Big Dead Place&quot; - about living in Antartica<p>Mark Noll - &quot;The Civil War as a Theological Crisis&quot;<p>David Halberstam - &quot;The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War&quot;<p>Stanley Karnnow - &quot;In Our Image: America&#x27;s Empire in the Philippines&quot;<p>Esmerelda Santiago - &quot;When I was Puerto Rican&quot;<p>Lara Pawson - &quot;In the Name of the People&quot; (about Angola)<p>Marc Benioff - &quot;Behind the Cloud&quot; (surprisingly good for a business book)<p>Keith Anderson - &quot;The Digital Cathedral&quot; (book a friend of mine wrote, hard to describe, but suprised me at how good it is)<p>Adam Hochschild - &quot;King Leopold&#x27;s Ghost&quot; (how the Congo became a colony)<p>Jessica Livingston - &quot;Founders at Work&quot;<p>&quot;The Singapore Story: The memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew&quot; (a little dry &#x2F; long at points, but otherwise very instructive)<p>&quot;Listening spirituality, Vol. 1: Personal Spiritual Practices Among Friends&quot; (a book about Quakerism that was surprisingly good)<p>Michael Fogus - &quot;Functional Javascript&quot;<p>David Shi - &quot;The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture&quot; (traces the historical movements in the U.S. that value &quot;simplicity&quot; as a virtue, this was an interesting way to look at history)<p>A.J. Swoboda and studies, &quot;Blood Cries Out&quot;	(recommended to me by someone I know who is in seminary, this is Pentacostal theologians writing about ecology)<p>Frank Moraes - &quot;The Importance of Being Black&quot; (an Indian journalist in the 60s who took a tour of Africa and wrote a book; his books are hard to find though)