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While other men spend their time in the gym, there are also men who love to exercise their mental power. Reading books is certainly as important as any other hobby. So, if your boyfriend happens to spend countless hours reading different kinds of books then you might as well indulge him with more books

Giving books as gifts for men is such a cliche but works like a charm for guys who are addicted to the written words. Some tips when buying books for men. Unlike their female counterparts, few men finish books soon after they start reading them. They tend to read at a pace that only a snail could envy. If you’re buying a book for this kind of reader, you should be very selective because they may only finish one or two books a year.

Knowing the right topic is a big factor to finding good books for men. According to some surveys in the UK, some men have shelves full of books that have never been opened!

The best books relate to past events, personal experiences and memoirs. If you check out some bookstores you’ll realize that most men are in the non-fiction areas where they spend more of their time there than in other parts of the bookstore.

Here are some of the best gift ideas for boyfriends who dig nonfiction books.

1		The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 452 reviews The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken ....more info
2		Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality 25 reviews Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science--as well as religious and cultural institutions--has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and f....more info
3		Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut 3 reviews Growing up in the eighties, you were surrounded by mysteries. These were the years of MTV and John Hughes movies, the era of big dreams and bigger shoulder pads. Like any teenage geek, Rob Sheffield spent the decade searching for true love and maybe a cooler haircut. Talking to Girls About Duran Dur....more info
4		Outliers: The Story of Success 973 reviews In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliers--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successf....more info
5		The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2) 158 reviews An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stali....more info
6		The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains 33 reviews The best-selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology’s effect on the mind. “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing ....more info
7		Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life 3 reviews The acclaimed labor lawyer and prizewinning author Thomas Geoghegan asks: where are we better off—America or Europe? In an idiosyncratic, entertaining travelogue that plays on public policy, Geoghegan asks what our lives would be like if we lived them as Europeans. Sneaking out of his workaholic Am....more info
8		This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly 69 reviews Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, this time is different--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the ne....more info
9		The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals 632 reviews A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us— whether industria....more info
10		The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 1122 reviews This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poised to reach an even wider audience in paperbackis a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the tipping ....more info

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