I just finished Accidental Billionaires, and I've concluded I can't get enough of this type of non-fiction. I don't really know what to call it, but I consider Masters of Doom (one of my favorite books of all time), The Pixar Touch, and Looking for Calvin and Hobbes to be the same style. I guess it's mostly the story of one normal person's great idea taking off after much work and tribulation and it ends up changing the world. Anyone have any suggestions for books like these?

(I also really loved Columbine, not because it was inspiring (:downswords:) but sad and fascinating.)

It might not be quite in the same vein as those, but American On Purpose by Craig Ferguson is an excellent read. He's a surprisingly awesome writer.

Atlas Shrgged. Greatest book ever it will teach you about the proper and correct way to look at the world through unwavering logic. *SARCASM*

Okay so that wasn't relevant. I too enjoy this type of fiction, but I can't think of any examples off the top of my head. I'm excited to see these suggestions.

Survivor is kind of a success story...

I also have nothing to contribute that fits your criteria, but I will take this opportunity to list my favorite non-fiction books for anyone who came into this thread like I did just expecting general reading suggestions (these are the few that I have both read all the way through and enjoyed/learned enough from to keep on my bookshelf).

The First Salute
Battle Cry of Freedom
The Guns of August
The Strongest Tribe
The Middle East (almost done with this one)

Also, of course, my police officer suggested books which will give you a new respect for soldiers and police officers:
On Killing
On Combat
Into The Kill Zone

^- yeah, me too.

Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications.
Visibility Algorithms in the Plane by S. Ghosh.

and this book, but only because I laughed for literally 5 minutes when I saw the cover the first time.

That is both over my head and awesome.