I read quite a bit of nonfiction, so will add some rec's here as I think of them. I liked
Game Change, but couldn't get into either
Moonwalking or
6 Glasses.
If you like memoirs of offbeat professions, I can recommend
Down Among the Dead Men by Michelle Williams - her first year (or so) as a post mortem worker in a morgue.
There's also Barbara Demick's
Nothing to Envy - six escapees stories of the North Korea they're doing their best to hide.
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier would be good for travel, history and/or Russ-o-philes.
The Tenth Parallel by Eliza Griswold is a well written account of the clash between zealots within Islam and Christianity along that latitude.
Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife by Lisa Miller, religion editor of Newsweek magazine is well worth a read.
I'm going to throw in a mention of
A Skeptic's Guide to (American) Writers' Houses by Anne Trubek, wherein she visits several examining the question of whether pilgrimages there really "soak up atmosphere" or whether it's more of a fan fetish thing?
That should be enough for now