Recommend a book to give my father as a gift

Steinbeck or Orwell. They even both have nonfiction. The audiobook guy might be on to something as well.

Napoleon in Egypt. Enthralling, true story.

Don't do this.

Get him Musashi (the novel)

where in the description of his dad did he say he was a cringy douche with poor taste?

The Good War. It's an oral history of WWII (all true), told by vets, nurses, medics, factory workers, etc. Very soulful, and pretty easy to read.

Baudelaire's "Les paradis artificiels" or De Quincey's confessions

Adrift by Stephen Callahan

based

to fall asleep while driving?

Hemingway - Farewell to Arms

My dad liked it, and he pretty much hates reading.

ED: Coming to terms

My dad really liked Jordan Memerson's book 12 shits

The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer.

industrial society and its future

This would be a good one, it's easy to read, interesting subject matter, non-fiction and pretty short.

We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher

Das Kapital

industrial society and its future

and céline probably (the only good answer so far, in case you get memed by the other replies)

This, unironically

During my nervous breakdown last year I convinced myself I was going to become a trucker. I checked out numerous books on trucking from my public library and this was the best of what I'd read. When I was dumped in the loony bin I was unable to return my borrowed library books and ended up being charged for "lost" books that weren't actually lost, and which I suppose I now own. This particular one is full of interesting anecdotes and no romantic bullshit either. It's a book about work and the people who do it, non-fiction like your OP says. Highly recommended

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