/lit/ - Literature

What are your favorite non-fiction books?
I'm personally a fan of Sapiens and Homo Deus. I'm also going through the history books from the sticky and I enjoy those.

Quote your favourite passage from the last book you read.

>He turned on the bare, treeless little plot that held others like his mother and father and looked across the flat land in the direction of the farm where he had been born, where his mother and father had spent their years. He thought of the cost exacted, year after year, by the soil; and it remained as it had been—a little more barren, perhaps, a little more frugal of increase. Nothing had changed. Their lives had been expended in cheerless labor, their wills broken, their intelligences numbed. Now they were in the earth to which they had given their lives; and slowly, year by year, the earth would take them. Slowly the damp and rot would infest the pine boxes which held their bodies, and slowly it would touch their flesh, and finally it would consume the last vestiges of their substances. And they would become a meaningless part of that stubborn earth to which they had long ago given themselves.

I read 40 books I have of my 350 book collection so far and donated them after reading them. How far are you on your book collection?

It went something like:
"Humans are so sick they do not want to look a the cure. But when they do, they get better."

I'm pretty sure it's from a book, but I do not remember what book nor the author.

What are some actually good novels written in the 21st century?

>inb4 to impress other fags in this cambodian beetle fighting forum

What makes classics as they are? I've recently only gotten into reading, and classics definitely gives a 'different' feeling so to speak compared to typical escapist works, especially with more stimulating mediums. I need some ideas here for a presentation to convince a bunch of STEM drones why they should read these.