Guardian 100 Greatest Non-Fiction

Given by The Guardian

101 Works 501,383 Livros 5,962 Críticas ½ 4.0
Categorias:
Todos, Art (3), Biografia (6), Culture (3), Environment (2), Histórico (11), Journalism (3), Literature (3), Mathematics (1), Memoir (11), Mind (1), Music (1), Philosophy (12), Politics (13), Religion (2), Science (5), Society (13), Travel (9), Writing (1), No Category (1)
ObraCategoria
Ways of Seeing (1972) por John Berger
Art
The Story of Art (1950) por E. H. Gombrich
Art
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change (1980) por Robert Hughes
Art
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) por James Boswell
Biografia
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) por Robert Graves
Biografia
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1825) por Samuel Pepys
Biografia
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) por Gertrude Stein
Biografia
Eminent Victorians (1918) por Lytton Strachey
Biografia
The Lives of the Artists (1957) por Giorgio Vasari
Biografia
Mythologies (1957) por Roland Barthes
Culture
Orientalism (1978) por Edward W. Said
Culture
Notes on "Camp" (1996) por Susan Sontag
Culture
Silent Spring (1962) por Rachel Carson
Environment
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity (2006) por James E. Lovelock
Environment
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) por Hannah Arendt
Histórico
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) por Dee Brown
Histórico
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788) por Edward Gibbon
Histórico
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda (1998) por Philip Gourevitch
Histórico
The Histories (420 BCE) por Herodotus
Histórico
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (1994) por Eric Hobsbawm
Histórico
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005) por Tony Judt
Histórico
Shah of Shahs (1982) por Ryszard Kapuściński
Histórico
The History of England from the Accession of James II [complete set] (1856) por Thomas Babington Macaulay
Histórico
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970) por Studs Terkel
Histórico
The Making of the English Working Class (1963) por E. P. Thompson
Histórico
Dispatches (1977) por Michael Herr
Journalism
The Journalist and the Murderer (1990) por Janet Malcolm
Journalism
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) por Tom Wolfe
Journalism
"An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." (2010) por Chinua Achebe
Literature
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (1976) por Bruno Bettelheim
Literature
Lives of the English poets (1779) por Samuel Johnson
Literature
Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) por Douglas Hofstadter
Mathematics
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) por Frederick Douglass
Memoir
The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) por Anne Frank
Memoir
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1957) por Mahatma Gandhi
Memoir
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) por T. E. Lawrence
Memoir
The Periodic Table (1975) por Primo Levi
Memoir
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1947) por Vladimir Nabokov
Memoir
Homage to Catalonia (1938) por George Orwell
Memoir
The Confessions (1784) por Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Memoir
Bad Blood: A Memoir (2001) por Lorna Sage
Memoir
The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka (1972) por Wole Soyinka
Memoir
De Profundis (1905) por Oscar Wilde
Memoir
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) por Sigmund Freud
Mind
The Romantic Generation (1995) por Charles Rosen
Music
The Meditations (170) por Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) por Robert Burton
Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) por René Descartes
Philosophy
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) por G. W. F. Hegel
Philosophy
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779) por David Hume
Philosophy
Critique of Pure Reason (1781) por Immanuel Kant
Philosophy
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) por Thomas S. Kuhn
Philosophy
On Liberty (1859) por John Stuart Mill
Philosophy
Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays (1580) por Michel de Montaigne
Philosophy
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) por Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy
The Symposium (360 BCE) por Plato
Philosophy
Walden (1854) por Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy
The Second Sex (1953) por Simone de Beauvoir
Politics
The Souls of Black Folk (1903) por W. E. B. Du Bois
Politics
The Wretched of the Earth (1961) por Frantz Fanon
Politics
The Female Eunuch (1970) por Germaine Greer
Politics
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988) por Edward S. Herman
Politics
Leviathan (1651) por Thomas Hobbes
Politics
The Prince (1513) por Niccolò Machiavelli
Politics
The Communist Manifesto (1848) por Karl Marx
Politics
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (1967) por Marshall McLuhan
Politics
Rights of Man (1791) por Thomas Paine
Politics
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008) por Clay Shirky
Politics
The Art of War (500 BCE) por Sun Tzu
Politics
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) por Mary Wollstonecraft
Politics
The Golden Bough (1890) por James George Frazer
Religion
The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) por William James
Religion
On the Origin of Species (1859) por Charles Darwin
Science
The Selfish Gene (1976) por Richard Dawkins
Science
The Character of Physical Law (1965) por Richard Feynman
Science
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) por Stephen Hawking
Science
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) por James D. Watson
Science
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939) por James Agee
Society
In Cold Blood (1965) por Truman Capote
Society
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (1968) por Joan Didion
Society
Suicide (1897) por Emile Durkheim
Society
In Praise of Folly (1509) por Desiderius Erasmus
Society
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) por Michel Foucault
Society
The Feminine Mystique (1963) por Betty Friedan
Society
Notícia de um sequestro (1982) por Gabriel García Márquez
Society
The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) por Christine de Pizan
Society
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (1973) por Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Society
Letters on England (1734) por Voltaire
Society
Economy and Society [complete] (1922) por Max Weber
Society
A Room of One's Own (1929) por Virginia Woolf
Society
The Travels of Ibn Battutah (1355) por Ibn Battuta
Travel
China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society (2005) por Cao Jinqing
Travel
A Time of Gifts (1977) por Patrick Leigh Fermor
Travel
Danube (1989) por Claudio Magris
Travel
Venice (1960) por James Morris
Travel
Passage to Juneau (1999) por Jonathan Raban
Travel
The Rings of Saturn (1995) por W. G. Sebald
Travel
The Innocents Abroad (1869) por Mark Twain
Travel
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia (1941) por Rebecca West
Travel
Letters to a Young Novelist (1997) por Mario Vargas Llosa
Writing
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One, Parts I-II) (1973) por Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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