Non-Fiction Books to Read Before You Die

To give the blog an energy boost, we're asking people to name non-fiction books they would recommend. As this will be a kinder, gentler poll, we'll probably expand the list to 25 books. We'd love to know which titles you'd come up with. Please leave your list in the comments.

To get things started, my 10 selections are listed below:

Gifts of the Jews—Thomas Cahill

A Short History of Nearly Everything—Bill Bryson
The Progressive Historians, by Richard Hofstadter

Blink—Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point—Malcolm Gladwell
How to Ruin Your Life—Ben Stein
1776— David McCullough
On Writing—Stephen King
You Just Don’t Understand—Deborah Tannen
The Practice of Writing—David Lodge