RE: Favorite Non-fictions
April 5, 2011 at 8:43 pm
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2011 at 8:48 pm by Rev. Rye.)
Well, since one of my posts got lost, I think I should rework my list:
Biography:
Barney Ross (Douglas Century)
If Chins Could Kill (Bruce Campbell)
Edmund Morris' Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy
Religion:
The Dhammapada
The God Delusion (Dawkins)
The Satanic Bible (Anton LaVey)
The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
What the Buddha Taught (Walpola Rahula)
Misquoting Jesus (Bart Ehrman)
True Crime:
Ice Man (Philip Carlo)
Joey the Hitman and Hit 29 (Joey Black)
Yosemite Murders (Denis McDougal)
History:
The Decline of the West (Spengler)
Night (Elie Wiesel)
Hiroshima (John Hersey)
True Believer (Hoffer)
Philosophy:
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Utopia (Thomas More)
Pretty much any collection of Schopenhauer now in print
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k (Alan Watts)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Balthasar Gracian)
Poets (Because the Dewey Decimal System counts it as non-fiction):
William Blake
Philip Larkin
Pablo Neruda
In Categories All By Themselves:
Mr. Boston
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Biography:
Barney Ross (Douglas Century)
If Chins Could Kill (Bruce Campbell)
Edmund Morris' Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy
Religion:
The Dhammapada
The God Delusion (Dawkins)
The Satanic Bible (Anton LaVey)
The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
What the Buddha Taught (Walpola Rahula)
Misquoting Jesus (Bart Ehrman)
True Crime:
Ice Man (Philip Carlo)
Joey the Hitman and Hit 29 (Joey Black)
Yosemite Murders (Denis McDougal)
History:
The Decline of the West (Spengler)
Night (Elie Wiesel)
Hiroshima (John Hersey)
True Believer (Hoffer)
Philosophy:
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Utopia (Thomas More)
Pretty much any collection of Schopenhauer now in print
The B
k (Alan Watts)The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Balthasar Gracian)
Poets (Because the Dewey Decimal System counts it as non-fiction):
William Blake
Philip Larkin
Pablo Neruda
In Categories All By Themselves:
Mr. Boston
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
