- bad blood (about theranos)
- SPQR
- King Leopold’s Ghost
- Lost in Math
- masters of doom
Obviously SPQR, but also Bad Blood is a historical account, and it's interesting.
Most business books are of the "here's how you ought to behave" variety. Most of these were written to win the author consulting gigs. The vast majority are formulaic and bland. Also, to hit a publisher's wordcount/shelf-space targets, they're always heavily padded. 99.9% of them would be better off in much more concise bullet-point format.
Of course there are a lot of edge cases and books that don't fit neatly into any category. And there are some books, like the Hagakure, Meditations, and the Bible itself, which started off as clear-cut examples of "here's how you ought to behave" but later became historically important.
Unfortunately you can't print and bind just one phrase because no one will pay for it... or will they?
An historical account is not fiction (because it happened) but it read as well as a fiction book.
Agassi's biography would be another example.