Non-fiction books.

[Infinitefox]

I'd love to hear this site's recommendations for nonfiction. I'll post mine tomorrow when I'm not so tired lol.

[fetish]

You're gonna have to be way more specific than that. What area are you looking at?

[Infinitefox]

Just peoples' favorite nonfiction books.

[dfloyd]

Histories of Herodotus
History of early Rome - Livy
Lives of the Tweleve Caesars - Suetonius
History of the Pelopennisian War - Thucydides
The Anabasis - Xenophon
Walden - Thoreau
The French Revolution - Carlyle
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Cellini

[ladderandbucket]

The road to Wigan pier by George Orwell.

The politics are out of date and it is probably not technically Orwell's best work but there is something very charming about this book.

[Infinitefox]

Histories of Herodotus
History of early Rome - Livy
Lives of the Tweleve Caesars - Suetonius
History of the Pelopennisian War - Thucydides
The Anabasis - Xenophon
Walden - Thoreau
The French Revolution - Carlyle
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Cellini

I haven't read any of those. Walden interests me, though. Tell me what ya thought about it.

[stlukesguild]

Look here:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54280

and here:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54577&highlight=non-fiction

and here:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48273&highlight=non-fiction

I'd still recommend:

Rilke- Letters to a Young Poet and Diaries of a Young Poet
J.L. Borges- Non Fictions, Other Inquisitions, Seven Nights
T.S. Eliot- Essays
Robert Hughes- The Shock of the New
R. W. Emerson- Essays (especially Self Reliance)
Montaigne- Essays (Donald Frame translation)
J.L. Borges- Other Inquisitions and Collected Non-Fictions
Jean J. Rousseau- Confessions
De Tocqueville- Democracy in America
John Ruskin- The Stones of Venice
Charles Lamb- The Essays of Elia
De Quincy- Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Boswell and Johnson's travelogs (Journey to the Western Islands and A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides) Certainly shorter than The Life of Johnson
Gibbons- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Walton- The Compleat Angler
Sir Francis Bacon- Essays
Dorothy Wordsworth- Journals
Histories of Herodotus
Autobiography of Cellini
Edmund Burke- A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful and Reflections on the Revolution in France
Goethe- Italian Journey and From my Life: Poetry and Truth
Octavio Paz- In Light of India

and many more that I just can't think of right now...

[asdpok]

Simon Singh - Fermat's Last Theorem
Simon Singh - The Code Book
Douglas Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Leonard Mlodinow - The Drunkward´s Walk