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+1 for many of the books already noted. Additionally, here are a few more (ordered lexicographically), reflective of various points in my life, that immediately jump to mind:
A Night to Remember, by Walter Lord
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, by Susan Brownmiller
Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans, by Wallace Terry
Exodus, by Leon Uris
Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman, by Dorothy Sterling
Good News for Modern Man (my pastor gave everyone that book who was preparing for confirmation)
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Johnny Tremaine, by Esther Forbes
Mandingo, by Kyle Onstott
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; by Frederick Douglass
Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson
Roll Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, by Eugene Genovese
Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver
Sounder, by William H. Armstrong
The Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank
The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty (I've never touched a ouija board since)
The Gift of Fear, by Gavin de Becker
The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
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