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The 100 Greatest Non-Fiction Books (from The Guardian UK)

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The Shock of the new

by Robert Hughes
First published in 1981 — 5 editions work

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The story of art

by E. H. Gombrich
First published in 1950 — 44 editions work
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Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series

by John Berger First published in 1972 — 16 editions work

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Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori

by Giorgio Vasari and Peter Murray
First published in 1759 — 91 editions work
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Everybody's Boswell

by James Boswell
First published in 1798 — 34 editions work
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Diary

by Samuel Pepys
First published in 1825 — 166 editions work
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Eminent Victorians

by Giles Lytton Strachey and Sutherland, John
First published in 1918 — 17 editions work
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Good-Bye to All That: an autobiography

by Robert Graves
First published in 1929 — 55 editions work
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein
First published in 1933 — 83 editions work
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Against Interpretation: and other essays

by Susan Sontag and Tavia Gilbert
First published in 1966 — 25 editions work

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Mythologies

by Roland Barthes First published in 1957 — 8 editions work

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Orientalism

by Edward W. Said
First published in 1978 — 33 editions work

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Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson
First published in 1962 — 57 editions work

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The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity

by James Lovelock
First published in 2006 — 10 editions work
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History

by Herodotus
First published in 1494 — 282 editions work
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged

by Edward Gibbon
First published in 1776 — 222 editions work
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The history of England

by Thomas Babington Macaulay and Hugh Trevor-Roper
First published in 1968 — 4 editions work

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

by Hannah Arendt
First published in 1963 — 36 editions work
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The making of the English working class

by E. P. Thompson, E. P. Thompson, and E.P. Thompson
First published in 1963 — 30 editions work
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

by Dee Alexander Brown
First published in 1672 — 86 editions work
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Hard times: an oral history of the great depression

by Studs Terkel
First published in 1970 — 31 editions work
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Szachinszach

by Ryszard Kapuściński
First published in 1982 — 29 editions work

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The age of extremes: a history of the world, 1914-1991

by Eric Hobsbawm
First published in 1994 — 10 editions work
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families

by Philip Gourevitch
First published in 1998 — 13 editions work

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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

by Tony Judt First published in 2005 — 18 editions work

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The journalist and the murderer

by Janet Malcolm
First published in 1990 — 5 editions work

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

by Tom Wolfe
First published in 1968 — 48 editions work
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Dispatches

by Michael Herr
First published in 1977 — 23 editions work

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Lives of the poets

by Samuel Johnson
First published in 1820 — 37 editions work
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An Image of Africa

by Chinua Achebe First published in 2000 — 2 editions work

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The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

by Bruno Bettelheim
First published in 1976 — 9 editions work

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
First published in 1979 — 30 editions work

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Les confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
First published in 1782 — 244 editions work
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass
First published in 1845 — 1032 editions work
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De profundis

by Oscar Wilde
First published in 1905 — 74 editions work
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom

by T. E. Lawrence
First published in 1905 — 152 editions work
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An autobiography: the story of my experiments with truth

by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
First published in 1927 — 140 editions work
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Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell
First published in 1938 — 101 editions work

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Het Achterhuis

by Anne Frank
First published in 1944 — 293 editions work
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

by Vladimir Nabokov and Vladimir Nabokov
First published in 1951 — 63 editions work
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The man died

by Wole Soyinka First published in 1972 — 11 editions work
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Il sistema periodico

by Primo Levi
First published in 1975 — 50 editions work
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Bad blood

by Lorna Sage
First published in 2000 — 12 editions work

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Die Traumdeutung

by Sigmund Freud
First published in 1899 — 141 editions work
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The romantic generation

by Charles Rosen First published in 1995 — 3 editions work

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Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων
First published in 1559 — 350 editions work
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Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de
First published in 1600 — 294 editions work
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The anatomy of melancholy

by Robert Burton
First published in 1624 — 60 editions work
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Meditationes de prima philosophia

by René Descartes
First published in 1642 — 60 editions work
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

by David Hume
First published in 1779 — 340 editions work
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