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Really? I thought with the Supreme Court ruling against Texas' anti-sodomy law we were all supposed to be into that kinky stuff now...

Ramen

I read Buddhist books but I'm not sure of the percentage of fiction vs. non-fiction they are. So I can't really answer this poll.

Godless Wonder

I read mostly nonfiction, and lately I had noticed that I read mostly nonfiction, so I decided to give fiction a try again (I used to like it a lot). So I picked up one of the Discworld books, since I'd seen that a lot of people seem to like those (on slashdot, etc.). What a disappointment. I found it to be kind of dumb. Oh well.

I have found that truth (non-fiction) is stranger and more interesting than fiction, in general.

Some of the good non-fiction I've been reading: (I figure a list of good books is worth more than just saying "I like non-fiction.")

"What makes you tick, the brain in plain English", by Francis Crick
A short history of nearly everythig, by Bill Bryson
(other books by Bryson are decent too.) this book is probably nothing new to most people here. However, the introduction in this book I found inspiring..

Consilience the unity of knowledge, by Edward O. Wilson

Any book by David Quammen
Any book by Tim Cahill

Books about Africa I find fascinating, for some reason. Here are some good ones

Don't lets go to the dogs tonight, An African Childhood, by Alexandra Fuller

Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure, by Stuart Stevens (this book I found hilarious. Especially the encounter with the leather-clad heavy metal dude pushing the decapitated Citroen through the dried up desert that is Lake Chad. )

The Unveiling of Timbuctoo, by Galbraith Welch

Another one that was interesting, but not about africa: "Stranger in the Forest: on foot across Bornea" (the author, Eric Hansen, walked across Borneo, then turned around and walked back Take a look at a map, and pay attention to the scale. It's a long walk. Pretty interesting book.

Anybody else got recommendations?

Buddrow_Wilson

As for books, I read almost exclusively fiction novels. However, I also enjoy science and news periodicals.

Curious: Would political satire be non-fiction?

Shake

I used to eat up sci-fi and fantasy stuff, and still enjoy a good story from time to time (the last one being Ender's Shadow), but have also gone to nonfiction more and more over the last several years. Mathematics, physics (Hawking and Thorne), and philosophy (Russell) have been my more recent mainstays.

My most recent reads:

1. Hofstadter's G�del, Escher, Bach
2. another book on cosmology (whose title escapes me now) which pushed the views of Fred Hoyle and a non-Big Bang theory of the beginnings of the Universe, and currently:
3. Lincoln, An Ethical Biography, at the suggestion of my father, a big history (Civil War specifically) buff

Still in my queue:
In Code by Sarah Flannery
Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith
and some others which I can't think of right now.

I'd like to go back and reread Dune when I get some time. Also, I've been thinking lately that I should really tackle the Bible again (got bored with all of the 'begats' the first time), more for the "know thy enemy" sort of reason.