Lindsay's "Best Non-Fiction Books"

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Best of non fiction from a wide range of fields. Any suggestions for additions?

  1. 4.
    At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
    by A. Roger Ekirch

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  2. 10.
    Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
    by Harold Bloom

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  3. 11.
    A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

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  5. 14.
    The God Delusion
    by Richard Dawkins

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  6. 15.
    The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
    by Matt Ridley

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  7. 17.
    The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
    by Michael Pollan

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  8. 18.
    Fast Food Nation
    by Eric Schlosser

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  9. 19.
    The Great Movies
    by Roger Ebert

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  10. 20.
    Last Chance to See
    by Douglas Adams

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  11. 21.
    Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
    by Laurie Garrett

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  12. 22.
    The Greek Myths (Lives & Letters: the Millennium Graves)
    by Robert Graves

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  13. 24.
    Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine
    by Harold Bloom

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  14. 26.
    The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
    by Desmond Morris

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  15. 27.
    The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
    by Richard Dawkins

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  16. 28.
    Medieval Technology and Social Change (Galaxy Books)
    by Lynn White

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  17. 29.
    Cosmos
    by Carl Sagan

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  18. 30.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
    by Carl Sagan

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  21. 34.
    Escape from Freedom
    by Erich Fromm

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  22. 35.
    Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
    by George Lakoff

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  23. 36.
    Genes, Peoples, and Languages
    by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

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  24. 37.
    The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
    by Robert Graves

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  25. 38.
    The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
    by Steven Pinker

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  26. 39.
    Words and Rules (Science Masters)
    by Steven Pinker

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  27. 40.
    Seven Ages of Paris
    by Alistair Horne

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  28. 41.
    How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science)
    by Steven Pinker

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  29. 42.
    On the Origin of Species
    by Charles Darwin

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Created by Lindsay on May 03, 2007.
 

Comments

Suggestions... — 1 year ago

First of all, great list!
If you like Frances Gies, I’d suggest Frances & Joseph Gies’ (Gies’s?) Life in a Medieval Village. (Life in a Medieval City and Life in a Medieval Castle are good too, but Village is my favourite.) Also, A History of the Breast and A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom are really good.