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I don't really have a favourite non-fiction category. I've never been big on history, and so that rarely gets a gander (Robert Graves' historical novels, I Claudius and Claudius, The God aside - I enjoyed them, but they don't count as non-fiction). I'm also not that interested in biographies (though David Marr's Patrick White: A Life was quite interesting). I don't mind popular science, particularly those of a cosmological bent (like Brian Greene'sThe Elegant Universe). If you consider pictorial photographic books to be "non-fiction", then I've a few of them, from some favourite photographers, or just some favourite topic-specific compilations.
Truth is though, I don't read non-fiction too often. Essays compilations are not bad. I enjoyed a George Orwell compilation, and probably one of my favourite non-fiction books (actually, probably one of my favourite books of any kind) is Clive James's Cultural Amnesia. I bought the pbook, and then the (DRM-free) ebook.
Cheers,
Marc
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