Best Selling Nonfiction Books

Books are a getaway to a place where no earthly sounds or images pervade, since one is immersed in a world conjured by their minds comprising different smells, tastes and sensations. If one wanted to just disappear and teleport to a place far away from where he / she was, then a book could do just that. Whether it's kids, teens, young adults or grownups, there is a comfort in knowing that a book can take you places. It not only improves one's way of speaking but fuels one's imaginative juices, spurring the intellect to take on a more creative edge, than one that would be in-the-box as opposed to thinking out of it.

It also betters one's vocab and propels one's ability to think and formulate on their own, with a whole truckload of knowledge and better constructive sentence skills when writing, or speaking for that matter. Books can do that for you, provided that you are an avid reader, who gorges down on text and lives off on nothing but the idea of reading when time permits.

I for one am a 'text gorger', who's been reading for as long as I can remember, where I'd conveniently prop one up in front of my textbook back in school and disappear almost immediately to a place that was alien to others. The following list of nonfiction books will help us see things in a different light, experience another's emotions, imagine what its like to be in a situation and learn from another's life experiences. So let's find out more on the best nonfiction books that are making it big among recommended book lists and readers worldwide.

Top Nonfiction Books to Read

These books will never go stale for their immensely talented written works, and you would do well to have these cluttering your home.

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward Against Interpretation, and Other Essays by Susan Sontag Let's Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Imagine by Jonah Lehrer Quiet by Susan Cain Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman The Joy of Sex by Dr. Alex Comfort Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf American Sniper by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie Drift by Rachel Maddow The Big Book by Alcoholics Anonymous Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being by Tibor Machan More Guns, Less Crime by John R. Lott The American Language by H. L. Mencken The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama The Presidents Club by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer Ordinarily Sacred by Lynda Sexson A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Lady Almina and the Real Downtown Abbey by the Countess of Carnarvon The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Bossypants by Tina Fey Storming Heaven by Jay Stevens The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein Send in the Waco Killers by Vin Suprynowicz A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers On Writing by Stephen King The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock

These make for some good nonfiction books to read when you have the time to kickback and curl up to one. They provide great insight into things both known and unknown in extensive detail, that can only bring on a feeling of awe and inspiration. I hope that you'll find it in your schedule to make place for these books, and if not you can always find the audio or e-book versions for the same.