On: Ask HN: Non fiction books in English well-written?

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Off the top of my head:

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by D.F. Wallace

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Anything by John McPhee

Edit: formatting

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Oh! The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester