Lindsay's "Best Non-Fiction Books"

1. 1. A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn Drag me to re-order

2. 2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Drag me to re-order

3. 3. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science) by Tor Norretranders Drag me to re-order

4. 4. At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch Drag me to re-order

5. 5. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen Drag me to re-order

6. 6. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks Drag me to re-order

7. 7. The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti Drag me to re-order

8. 8. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett Drag me to re-order

9. 9. Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies Drag me to re-order

10. 10. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom Drag me to re-order

11. 11. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman Drag me to re-order

12. 12. The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History by Howard Bloom Drag me to re-order

13. 13. Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World by Eric Foner Drag me to re-order

14. 14. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Drag me to re-order

15. 15. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley Drag me to re-order

16. 16. Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley Drag me to re-order

17. 17. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Drag me to re-order

18. 18. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Drag me to re-order

19. 19. The Great Movies by Roger Ebert Drag me to re-order

20. 20. Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams Drag me to re-order

21. 21. Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett Drag me to re-order

22. 22. The Greek Myths (Lives & Letters: the Millennium Graves) by Robert Graves Drag me to re-order

23. 23. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (Compass) by Leonard Shlain Drag me to re-order

24. 24. Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine by Harold Bloom Drag me to re-order

25. 25. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Plus) by Bart D. Ehrman Drag me to re-order

26. 26. The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris Drag me to re-order

27. 27. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins Drag me to re-order

28. 28. Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White Jr. Drag me to re-order

29. 29. Cosmos by Carl Sagan Drag me to re-order

30. 30. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan Drag me to re-order

31. 31. The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan Drag me to re-order

32. 32. Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus Drag me to re-order

33. 33. The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose Drag me to re-order

34. 34. Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm Drag me to re-order

35. 35. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff Drag me to re-order

36. 36. Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Drag me to re-order

37. 37. The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Amended and Enlarged Edition by Robert Graves Drag me to re-order

38. 38. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker Drag me to re-order

39. 39. Words and Rules (Science Masters) by Steven Pinker Drag me to re-order

40. 40. Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne Drag me to re-order

41. 41. How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker Drag me to re-order

42. 42. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Drag me to re-order