The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 : an experiment in literary investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Notes On 'Camp' by Susan Sontag
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Mythologies by Roland Barthes
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Orientalism by Edward W. Said
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
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The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock
The Histories by Herodotus
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The History of England from the Accession of James II, Complete by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. by Chinua Achebe
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence
An Autobiography: the Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka by Wole Soyinka
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Bad blood by Lorna Sage
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen
Symposium by Plato
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
The Golden Bough : A Study in Comparative Religion by James George Frazer
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
Letters on England by Voltaire
Suicide by Emile Durkheim
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology by Max Weber
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison by Michel Foucault
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Venice by Jan Morris
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Danube by Claudio Magris
China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society by Cao Jinqing
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban
Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Histories by Herodotus
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The History of England from the Accession of James II, Complete by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. by Chinua Achebe
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence
An Autobiography: the Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka by Wole Soyinka
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Bad blood by Lorna Sage
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen
Symposium by Plato
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
The Golden Bough : A Study in Comparative Religion by James George Frazer
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
Letters on England by Voltaire
Suicide by Emile Durkheim
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology by Max Weber
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison by Michel Foucault
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Venice by Jan Morris
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Danube by Claudio Magris
China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society by Cao Jinqing
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban
Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa
SOURCE
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/14/100-greatest-non-fiction-books
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/14/100-greatest-non-fiction-books
