Your Library: 10 Favorite Works of Non-Fiction?

[Zomby Woof]

1. History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 - Henry Adams
2. History of the United States During the Administrations of James Madison 1809-1817 - Henry Adams
3. Cosmos - Carl Sagan
4. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
5. Sleepwalking Through History: America In The Reagan Years - Haynes Johnson
6. The Buried Mirror - Carlos Fuentes
7. From Freedom to Slavery - Gerry Spence
8. The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
9. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X and Alex Haley
10. The Creators - Daniel Boorstin

[Broken_Hero]

1. Here I go...

1. The Prince-Nicolo Machiavelli

2. Son of the Morning Star-Evan S. Connell

3. God is Red-Vine Deloria Jr.

4. The Republic-Plato

5. The Apology-Socrates

6. Common Sense-Thomas Paine

7. Diary of Anne Frank

8. Black Elk Speaks-John C. Neidhardt(even though I have some issues about it)

9. The Communist Manifesto-Marx

10. Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust-Vine Deloria jr

[sir_captain]

2. Hmm...this is harder

In no particular order:

1) King Leopold's Ghost -- Hochschild
2) Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Conrad Black (ironically)
3) The Things They Carried -- Tim O'Brien (sort of in that fiction/non-fiction/memoir area)
4) Amazing Grace -- Jonathan Kozol
5) Savage Inequalities -- Jonathan Kozol
6) Melville: His World and Work -- Andrew Delbanco
7) Kitchen Confidential -- Anthony Bourdain
8) Simple Justice -- Richard Kluger
9) Guns, Germs and Steel -- Jared Diamond
10) Common Ground -- J. Anthony Lukas

Edit: Can't leave out Hiroshima -- John Hersey, and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -- William Shirer

[peacefreak]

3. My ten

Confederates in the Attic--Tony Horowitz
Glass Castle--Jeannette Walls
Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil--John Berendt(?)
Expedition Whydah--Barry Clifford
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test--Tom Wolf
Nisa Life & Words of a !Kung! Woman (Marjorie Shostak)
Having Our Say--Delanney Sisters
People's History of the United States--Howard Zinn
Red Tails in Love--Marie Winn
Kitchen Confidental--Anthony Bourdain

These are either a sign of an unordered mind or very eclectic taste!

[Zomby Woof]

6. Confederates in the Attic

I highly recommend that one. :thumbsup:

[greendog]

4. My 10

"A Pattern Language" Christopher Alexander

"The Whole Earth Catalog" Stewart Brand

"The Sibley Guide to Birds" David Sibley

"History of Modern Art" Arnason

"History of Haiku" Blyth

"The Tao of Cooking" Sally Pasley

"The Total Package" Thomas Hine

"Peoples History of the United States" Zinn

"Logo, Font, and Lettering Bible" Les Cabarga

"The Chairmakers Workshop" Drew Langsner

[pscot]

5. Gee, that's easy

1--Reichlers Baseball Encyclopedia

2--Grant's Memoirs -U.S.Grant

3--Peloppenesian War -Thucydides

4--Pepys Diaries -Sam Pepys

5--Truman -David McCullough

6--Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail -Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

7--Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars -Himself

8--Cities and the Wealt of Nations -Jane Jaobs

9--Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -Wm. Shirer

10--The Rich and the Super Rich -Ferdinand Lundberg

[Zomby Woof]

7. Love HST

Also can go with your vote for Grant's Memoirs.

[Arkham House]

8. This is hard--I mean, *really* hard...

...but here goes...in no particular order...

1. Collected Letters, Essays, and Journalism of George Orwell
2. Cosmic Trigger, Robert Anton Wilson
3. United States--the essays of Gore Vidal
4. Shakespeare, the Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom
5. Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum
6. The Bill James Baseball Historical Abstract
7. Prejudices, H.L. Mencken
8. The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
9. The Next Million Years, Charles Galton Darwin
10.Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter Thompson

[Zomby Woof]

9. Truth be told

I think every one of us could compile a different list each time. But it is fun. :-)