Top 40 Non-Fiction Books

Submitted by Oedipus on Thu, 08/11/2005 - 09:55
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  1. All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
  2. Ava's Man by Rick Bragg
  3. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg by Rick Bragg
  4. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Otto Frank
  5. Baseball: A Treasury of Art and Literature Edited by Michael Ruscoe
  6. Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic by Phyllis Curott
  7. Chasing Down the Dawn by Jewel Kilcher
  8. The Complete Kama Sutra Translated by Alain Danielou
  9. Encyclopedia of Gods: Over 2,500 Deities of the World by Michael Jordan
  10. Encyclopedia of Native American Religions: An Introduction by Arlene Hirschfelder and Paulette Molin
  11. Encyclopedia of Mormonism (4 Volumes) by Daniel H. Ludlow
  12. How To Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
  13. Jesus The Christ by James E. Talmage
  14. Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman
  15. Made In America by Sam Walton
  16. The Outline of History Vol. I by H. G. Wells
  17. The Outline of History Vol. II by H. G. Wells
  18. Rimbaud: A Biography by Graham Robb
  19. Son of A Preacher Man My Search For Grace in the Shadows by Jay Bakker with Linden Gross
  20. The Stephen King Companion by George Beahm
  21. Unexplained!: 347 Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena by Jerome Clark
  22. Zero The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
  23. Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic
  24. Who Wrote the Gospels? by Randel Helms
  25. Gospel Fictions by Randel Helms
  26. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  27. Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950-1963 by Sylvia Plath Selected & edited by Aurelia Schober Plath
  28. The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery by Simon Worrall
  29. Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen by Ira B. Nadel
  30. The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman
  31. John Steinbeck: A Study of the short Fiction by R. S. Hughes
  32. The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality by Shere Hite
  33. The Planet That Wasn't by Isaac Asimov
  34. Is Anyone There? by Isaac Asimov
  35. The Solar System and Back by Isaac Asimov
  36. The Tragedy of the Moon by Isaac Asimov
  37. Of Matters Great and Small by Isaac Asimov
  38. Science Past - Science Future by Isaac Asimov
  39. Cinema Year by Year 1894-2000 by Robyn Karney (Editor), Inc Dorling Kindersley (Corporate Author), Joel W. Finler (Editor), Ronald Bergan (Editor)
  40. Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters by Erica Wagner
Author Comments: 

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darktremor08/22/2005

I highly recommend:
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell; and
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Oedipus08/23/2005

Thanks, I'll check them out.