Poll: How much non-fiction do you read?

[CrimsonBlaze]

I tend to be interested in a laundry list of non-fictional topics. I don't always dive deeply into the subject matter, but I tend to always come back to it and read a bit more.

Some of my favorite subjects include world history, vegetation, music (or anything pertaining to sound), technology, and autobiographies of extraordinary individuals.

 

[Reaper195]

Most of the non-fiction I read is on Wikipedia. I generally read non-fiction stuff to learn or discover past events or sciences. But fiction is where I go for entertainment.

 

[A_Parked_Car]

I exclusively read military history books and journal articles. I tend to focus more on Germany's Eastern Front and the Pacific Theatre during the Second World War, but I do branch out from time to time.

To answer your question: Yes, I really enjoy non-fiction stuff. I suppose the reason why is that I'm a military history major, so military history is one of my passions.

 

[Eleuthera]

I guess about 30% of what I read would be non-fiction. Currently I'm reading Davies' "The Isles - a History". Most (90+%) of my non-fiction reading would be history, anything and everything really, but mostly greco-roman or post-renaisance

 

[klown]

I read a lot of science and math books for fun. Something about learning about things moving so fast that even air molecules are stationary in comparison. it's just fun.

 

[Revolutionary]

All my non-fiction comes from my University work, not much of it terribly interesting so you can imagine i'm fairly apathetic.

 

[AJvsRonin]

I'm a very big fan of non-fiction.

"The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan is a must read, it's still the best summary of the philosophy behind the skeptical movement, though it was written almost a decade before the movement really kicked off.

And "The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins" is probably the best explanation of evolution I've ever come across, I'd generally avoided books like that because I majored in Ecology at University and have done final year evolutionary theory papers, so I didn't wan't somebody explaining to me sympatric and allopatric speciation. But it was actually really good, he found some great ways to explain some of the more complex aspects without dumbing at down that much.

 

[LongAndShort]

I read a fair bit of non-fiction, both for Uni and pleasure. Mostly it falls within the realm of economics and social sciences. Just finished 'The New Machiavelli' by Jonathon Powell (interesting read about the lessons to be learned from the Blair government) and am currently finally getting around to reading Mary Douglas' 'Purity and Danger' (I've read a chapter here and there but now I'm going from cover to cover).
I'll often browse through the non-fiction section of whatever bookshop happens to be close by. If something jumps out at me, I read a few pages. If I like it, I'll buy it.

 

[sextus the crazy]

I read a fuck ton of military history. It takes up like 90% of my book purchases.