Suggestions for non-techincal book to read?

Non-fiction adventure reading. I tend to read things about mountaineering, challenging ice exploration, or even sea crossings. Something that is both a good historical recount, interspersed with personal challenge. Most recent book I read was 'The Pacific Alone: The Untold Story of Kayaking's Boldest Voyage'.

My son has dragged me down a path of sci-fi,  Ender game series , inheritance series and the like.
my top 3 would be 
atlas shrugged
enders game
aragon

Not-a-manual but still geeky:

• Sandworm, Andy Greenberg
• The cuckoo's egg, Cliff Stoll
• Ghost in the wires, Kevin Mitnick (RIP)

Good reads but not a novel:

• Kill it with fire, Marianne Bellotti
• The joy of X, Steven Strogatz
• The black swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Drift into failure, Sidney Dekker

Stuff a good nerd should read occassionally:

• Practical packes analysis, Chris Sanders
• OpenSSL cookbook, Ivan Ristić
• DNS and BIND, Cricket Liu & Paul Albitz

Today only available in german:

• Der Rabbi und der Kommissar, three book crime series by Michel Bergmann
  The stories are set in my hometown Frankfurt.

Anything by Peter F Hamilton, or Neil Asher spring immediately to mind. Ian M Banks (Culture Series) as well and John Scalzi (Old Mans War). 

Christopher G Nuttal has also been quite good. And Glyn Stewart.

Hi,
I'm on a bit of a soft skills / leadership refresh at the moment and have found "Turn the Ship Around!" by L. David Marguet an amazing book on Leadership. Fully recommended. I used the spotify Audio book system which is new and i didn't know about until Christmas! Well worth looking into if you have a spotify account!