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CounterPunch's Top 100 Non-Fiction Books of the Century

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1. Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
  
2. Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence In America, 18301930
by Louis Adamic
  
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 Inside the Company CIA Diary
by Philip Agee
  
4. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by Christopher Alexander
  
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 Confessions of a muckraker: The inside story of life in Washington during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson years
by Jack Anderson
  
6. Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
by Kenneth Anger
  
7. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)
by Hannah Arendt
  
8. Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi
by David Arora
  
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 Spinster
by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  
10. The Devil Finds Work
by James Baldwin
  
11. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
by Reyner Banham
  
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 The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben
by Joseph borkin
  
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 A Treasury of Missippi River Folktales
by B.A. Botkin
  
14. Ball Four
by Jim Bouton
  
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 Labor's untold story
by Richard Owen Boyer
  
16. Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener  
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 Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
by Harry Braverman
  
18. Western Garden Book, 2001 Edition  
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 For Earth's Sake: The Life and Times of David Brower
by David Ross Brower
  
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 Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
by Norman O. Brown
  
21. The Road to Oxiana
by Robert Byron
  
22. What Is History?
by Edward Hallett Carr
  
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 The legacy of Malthus: The social costs of the new scientific racism
by Allan Chase
  
24. The Country Blues (Da Capo Paperback)
by Samuel Barclay Charters
  
25. The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians
by Noam Chomsky
  
26.
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 The Threat - Inside the Soviet Military Machine
by Andrew Cockburn
  
27.
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 I Claud. . . The Autobiography of Claud Cockburn.
by Claud Cockburn
  
28. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by William Cronon
  
29. French Provincial Cooking (Penguin Classics)
by Elizabeth David
  
30. My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
by Alexandra David-Neel
  
31. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Civilization of the American Indian)
by Vine Deloria
  
32. Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
by Angie Debo
  
33. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
by John W. Dower
  
34. The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures)
by E. R. Dodds
  
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 The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover)
by W. E. B. Du Bois
  
36.
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 Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis
by Havelock Ellis
  
37. Seven Types of Ambiguity
by William Empson
  
38. 1910 Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition. 29 volume set including index
by Encyclopedia Britannica
  
39. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
by Shulamith Firestone
  
40. How to Cook a Wolf
by M. F. K. Fisher
  
41. Fowler's Modern English Usage
by R. W. Burchfield
  
42. Cezanne A Study of His Development
by Roger Fry
  
43. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
by Northrop Frye
  
44.
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 The Autobiography of Malcom X
by Malcom (as told to Alex Haley) X
  
45. The Long Haul: An Autobiography
by Myles Horton
  
46.
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 The Face Of War
by Martha Gellhorn
  
47.
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 Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
  
48.
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 Growing Up Absurd
by Paul Goodman
  
49. The Mismeasure of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould
  
50. Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books)
by Robert Graves
  
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