Lists of Bests: CounterPunch's Top 100 Non-Fiction Books of the Century http://www.listsofbests.com/list/39674 Why does this list have more than 100 items? Ask Counterpunch. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:53:51 GMT en-us 0 50 125 50 0 Desert Solitaire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2776394 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2776394"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000NYBIEA.01-A34BGT9FQIAQY3._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43516995_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Abbey</div> Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence In America, 18301930 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4179337 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4179337"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IHeW%2BmIVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis Adamic</div> Inside the Company CIA Diary http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3451836 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Agee</div> A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4363 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4363"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195019199.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Alexander</div> Confessions of a muckraker: The inside story of life in Washington during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson years http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2134876 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Anderson</div> Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12372 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12372"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440153255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056443324_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth Anger</div> Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/931747 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/931747"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0898151694.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Arora</div> Spinster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4179338 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Ashton-Warner</div> The Devil Finds Work http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93270 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93270"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385334605.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1197710 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1197710"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0520219244.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Reyner Banham</div> The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1775753 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph borkin</div> A Treasury of Missippi River Folktales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4179340 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by B.A. Botkin</div> Ball Four http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/119 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/119"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0020306652.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1121981392_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Bouton</div> Labor's untold story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4179341 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Owen Boyer</div> Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904816 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904816"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0875965997.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056503283_.jpg" /></a></div> Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2154771 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harry Braverman</div> Western Garden Book, 2001 Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/433999 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/433999"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0376038748.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438706_.jpg" /></a></div> For Earth's Sake: The Life and Times of David Brower http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1054206 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Ross Brower</div> Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1541124 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman O. Brown</div> The Road to Oxiana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494742 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494742"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195325605.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44591390_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Byron</div> What Is History? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51951 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51951"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0333977017.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Hallett Carr</div> The legacy of Malthus: The social costs of the new scientific racism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4179342 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allan Chase</div> The Country Blues (Da Capo Paperback) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/178754 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/178754"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0306800144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114567928_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Barclay Charters</div> The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2019817 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2019817"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0745315305.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Noam Chomsky</div> The Threat - Inside the Soviet Military Machine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4179343 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Cockburn</div> I Claud. . . The Autobiography of Claud Cockburn. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4179344 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claud Cockburn</div> Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88823 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88823"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393308731.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Cronon</div> French Provincial Cooking (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79238 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79238"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141181532.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth David</div> My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1105597 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1105597"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060596554.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129144122_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandra David-Neel</div> Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Civilization of the American Indian) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24737 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24737"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0806121297.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vine Deloria</div> Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place (Civilization of the American Indian Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4059145 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4059145"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ND78P70PL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Angie Debo</div> War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167477 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167477"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394751728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John W. Dower</div> The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388104 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1388104"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520242300.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1090968182_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. R. Dodds</div> The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Hardcover) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1385346 <div id="position">35</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. E. B. Du Bois</div> Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3322202 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Havelock Ellis</div> Seven Types of Ambiguity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25085 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25085"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/081120037X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057195329_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Empson</div> 1910 Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition. 29 volume set including index http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3502799 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3502799"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01tdX2A6N3L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Encyclopedia Britannica</div> The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3819316 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3819316"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515099FPVRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shulamith Firestone</div> How to Cook a Wolf http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26592 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26592"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0865473366.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1088271839_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by M. F. K. Fisher</div> Fowler's Modern English Usage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1802876 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1802876"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198610211.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1094263697_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. W. Burchfield</div> Cezanne A Study of His Development http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4179362 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4179362"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31u7QWOa%2BBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Fry</div> Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41535 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41535"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691069999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45104756_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Northrop Frye</div> The Autobiography of Malcom X http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3313318 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcom (as told to Alex Haley) X</div> The Long Haul: An Autobiography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1961503 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1961503"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0807737003.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056494021_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Myles Horton</div> The Face Of War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4179367 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martha Gellhorn</div> Detroit: I Do Mind Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3483756 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin</div> Growing Up Absurd http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49120 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Goodman</div> The Mismeasure of Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10869 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10869"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393314251.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Jay Gould</div> Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9965 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9965"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385093306.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439014_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div>