Showing posts with label 100 greatest non-fiction books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 100 greatest non-fiction books. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The 100 greatest non-fiction books??

The 100 greatest non-fiction books (CLICK ON )

What would you add to or remove from this list?

The list we've come up with rewards readability alongside originality, heaps praise on perfect prose and rounds it all off with a dash of cultural significance. It's clearly a mug's game to make any kind of claim for definitiveness but, whatever you make of our list and its (doubtless many) omissions and imperfections, there's no question that it features a whole heap of truly great books. You'll find Niccolò Machiavelli cheek by jowl with Patrick Leigh Fermor, Virginia Woolf next door to Karl Marx. There's introspection and analysis from Michel de Montaigne and small-town horror from Truman Capote. René Descartes constructs God out of nothing but doubt, while Charles Darwin tears him down again with a mountain of evidence