100 favourite non-fiction titles as of 5 July 2012

 

• The Human Place in the Cosmos

• by Eugene Kelly , Manfred S. Frings , Anthony J. Steinbock and Max Scheler
  

 

• The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living

• by Fritjof Capra
  

 

• The Second Sex

• by Simone de Beauvoir
  

 

• Selected Essays

• by Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw
  

 

• Essays

• by Bernard Crick and George Orwell
  

 

• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

• by Erving Goffman
  

 

• The Art of Being

• by Erich Fromm
  

 

• The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology

• by Rollo May
  

 

• The Courage to be

• by Paul Tillich and Peter J. Gomes
  

 

• Man's Search for Meaning

• by Viktor E. Frankl
  

 

• Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is

• by Michael Tanner , Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and R.J. Hollingdale
  

 

• Human, All Too Human

• by Stephen Lehmann , Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and Marion Faber
  

 

• Power

• by Steven Lukes
  

 

• The Authoritarian Personality

• by Else Frenkel-Brunswik , R. Nevitt Sanford , Daniel J. Levinson and Theodor W. Adorno
  

 

• The Origins of Totalitarianism

• by Hannah Arendt
  

 

• Rationality and Power

• by Bent Flyvberg
  

 

• The Society of Individuals

• by Norbert Elias
  

 

• Existentialism and Humanism

• by Jean-Paul Sartre
  

 

• Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology

• by Hazel Estella Barnes , Jean-Paul Sartre and Mary Warnock
  

 

• The Symbolic Construction of Community

• by Anthony P. Cohen
  

 

• Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient

• by Edward W. Said
  

 

• Language and Symbolic Power

• by Pierre Bourdieu
  

 

• The Theory of Communicative Action: v.1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society

• by Jurgen Habermas
  

 

• The Theory of Communicative Action: v. 2: Critique of Functionalist Reason

• by Jurgen Habermas and T. McCarthy
  

 

• The Logic of Practice

• by Pierre Bourdieu
  

 

• The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups

• by Mancur Olson
  

 

• Escape from Freedom

• by Erich H. Fromm
  

 

• Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

• by James D. Faubion and Michel Foucault
  

 

• Philosophical Investigations

• by P. M. S. Hacker , Ludwig Wittgenstein and Joachim Schulte
  

 

• Between Man and Man

• by Martin Buber
  

 

• Being and Event

• by Oliver Feltham and Alain Badiou
  

 

• The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

• by Anthony S. David and R.D. Laing
  

 

• Memories, Dreams, Reflections

• by Aniela Jaffe , Richard Winston , Clara Winston and C. G. Jung
  

 

• The Feminine Mystique

• by Betty Friedan
  

 

• itemId: 9780307264879

• 
  

 

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities

• by Jane Jacobs
  

 

• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.

• by Clayborne Carson and Martin Luther King
  

 

• The Human Condition

• by Margaret Canovan and Hannah Arendt
  

 

• The World as Will and Representation: v. 1

• by Arthur Schopenhauer and Eric F.J. Payne
  

 

• World as Will and Representation: v. 2

• by Arthur Schopenhauer
  

 

• I Ching or Book of Changes

• by Cary F. Baynes , Richard Wilhelm and C. G. Jung
  

 

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

• by Thomas S. Kuhn
  

 

• Prison Notebooks: Selections

• by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith , Antonio Gramsci and Quintin Hoare
  
• 
  msmlee's rating
  msmlee's review

 

• A Thousand Plateaus

• by Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze
  

 

• Being and Time

• by Martin Heidegger
  

 

• Ways of Seeing

• by John Berger
  

 

• Styles of Radical Will

• by Susan Sontag
  

 

• Against Interpretation and Other Essays

• by Susan Sontag
  

 

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

• by Jung Chang
  

 

• Down and Out in Paris and London

• by George Orwell and Dervla Murphy
  

 

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and a Vindication of the Rights of Men: WITH "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman": AND "An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution"

• by Mary Wollstonecraft and Janet Todd
  

 

• The Diary of a Young Girl

• by Anne Frank , Mirjam Pressler , Susan Massotty and Otto Frank
  

 

• Reading "Lolita" in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

• by Azar Nafisi
  

 

• Persepolis I and II

• by Marjane Satrapi
  

 

• The Kindness of Strangers: The Autobiography

• by Kate Adie
  

 

• Mao: The Unknown Story

• by Jon Halliday and Jung Chang
  

 

• Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs

• by John Pilger
  

 

• No Logo

• by Naomi Klein
  

 

• To Have or to Be?

• by Erich Fromm
  

 

• Culture and Imperialism

• by Edward W. Said
  

 

• Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

• by John Schoeffel , Peter R. Mitchell and Noam Chomsky
  

 

• The World as I See it

• by Albert Einstein
  

 

• Freedom from the Known

• by J. Krishnamurti
  

 

• Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

• by Thomas J. Travisano and Saskia Hamilton
  

 

• The Silent Traveller: A Chinese Artist in Lakeland

• by Chiang Yee
  

 

• The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier

• by T.E. Carhart
  

 

• Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

• by Richard Howard and Roland Barthes
  

 

• The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

• by Edmund De Waal
  

 

• Thus Spake Zarathustra

• by Friedrich, Nietzche
  

 

• Life of the Mind

• by Hannah Arendt
  

 

• Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

 

• Illuminations

• by Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin
  

 

• Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writing

• by Walter Benjamin
  

 

• Journey Through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics

• by William Dunham
  

 

• Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

• by Manjit Kumar
  

 

• Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos

• by Michio Kaku
  

 

• The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter

• by Fritjof Capra
  

 

• The Hot Zone

• by Richard Preston
  

 

• The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking

• by Simon Singh
  

 

• Collins Flower Guide

• by Lizzie Harper , Felicity Cole , Audrey Hardcastle , David Streeter and Christina Hart-Davies
  

 

• Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

• by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou
  

 

• itemId: 9780670062713

• 
  

 

• A Short History of Nearly Everything

• by Bill Bryson
  

 

• At Home: A Short History of Private Life

• by Bill Bryson
  

 

• Phantoms on the Bookshelves

• by Sian Reynolds , James Salter and Jacques Bonnet
  

 

• Girl, Interrupted

• by Susanna Kaysen
  

 

• A Beautiful Mind

• by Sylvia Nasar
  

 

• How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

• by Sarah Bakewell
  

 

• The Complete Essays

• by Michel de Montaigne and M.A. Screech
  

 

• Twopence to Cross the Mersey

• by Helen Forrester
  

 

• Falling Leaves

• by Adeline Yen Mah
  

 

• The Soul of a New Machine

• by Tracy Kidder
  

 

• Longitude

• by Dava Sobel
  

 

• Kitchen Confidential

• by Anthony Bourdain
  

 

• Surfing the Zeitgeist

• by Gilbert Adair
  

 

• Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

• by Zadie Smith
  

 

• Working the Room: ESSAYS

• by Geoff Dyer
  

 

• Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

• by Margaret Atwood
  

 

• The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

• by T. Bailey Saunders and Arthur Schopenhauer