Top 20 Non-Fiction Books

The Rhetoric—Aristotle (~324 BC)
Federalist Papers—Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1788)
On Liberty—John Stuart Mill (1859)
Roughing It—Mark Twain (1871)
Jesus the Christ—James Talmage (1915)
Attitudes Toward History—Kenneth Burke (1937)
The Two Cultures—C.P. Snow (1959)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions—Thomas Kuhn (1962)
Six Easy/Not-So-Easy Pieces—Richard Feynman (1963)
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student—Edward P.J. Corbett (1965)
Gödel, Escher, Bach—Douglas Hofstadter (1979)
Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace—Joseph Williams (1981)
Cultural Literacy—E.D. Hirsch (1988)
Paradigms Lost—John Casti (1989)
The Emperor’s New Mind—Roger Penrose (1989)
Dave Barry Slept Here—Dave Barry (1990)
The Way Things Ought to Be—Rush Limbaugh (1993)
All the Trouble in the World—P.J. O’Rourke (1994)
The End of Science—John Horgan (1996)
The Skeptical Environmentalist—Bjorn Lomborg (2001)