Book awards: CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

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ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound
Advertisements for Myself by Norman Mailer
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye
Architectural Graphic Standards by Charles George Ramsey
The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Ball Four by Jim Bouton
A Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffrey Wolff
Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues by Paul Oliver
Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka
Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices by George Leonard Herter
Cézanne, a study of his development by Roger Fry
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G. E. M. De Ste. Croix
Confessions of a Muckraker : The Inside Story of Life in Washington During the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Years by Jack Anderson
The Country Blues (Da Capo Paperback) by Samuel B. Charters
The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben by Joseph Borkin
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
Detroit: Do I Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution by Dan Georgakas
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing
Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence In America by Louis Adamic
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy MacLean
Eastern Birds (Peterson Field Guides) by Roger Tory Peterson
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Etruscan Places by D. H. Lawrence
Exploring The Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography Of Alice Hamilton, M.D. by Alice Hamilton
The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn
Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California by Carey McWilliams
Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
For Earth's Sake: The Life and Times of David Brower by David Ross Brower
For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies by Pauline Kael
Fowler’s Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler
French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David
The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History by Harold A. Innis
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
Geronimo, The Man, His Time, His Place by Angie Debo
Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves
The Gospel Sound: Good News and Band Times - 25th Anniversary Edition by Anthony Heilbut
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures) by E.R. Dodds
Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948: A Successful Campaign to Deceive the Nation by Frank Kofsky
The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made by Dave Marsh
History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida M. Tarbell
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
Home and Garden by Gertrude Jekyll
How to Cook a Wolf by M. F. K. Fisher
I, Claud by Claud Cockburn
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen
Inside the Company: CIA Diary by Philip Agee
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward S. Morse
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman
Labor's Untold Story by Richard O. Boyer
Lame Deer, seeker of visions by John (Fire) Lame Deer
The legacy of Malthus: The social costs of the new scientific racism by Allan Chase
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History by Norman O. Brown
The life and work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones
Listen, Yankee (The Revolution in Cuba) by C. Wright Mills
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebaugh
The Long Haul: An Autobiography by Myles Horton
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies by Reyner Banham
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx
Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi by David Arora
My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel
My Silent War by Kim Philby
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (Revised Edition) by Thomas S. Szasz
Native Planters in Old Hawaii: Their Life, Lore, and Environment by Elizabeth Green Handy
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica by 15th Edition / 1995
North Star Country by Meridel Le Sueur
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
The Oxford English Dictionary by E. S. C. Weiner
A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander
The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy
The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic 1890-1920 by Walter Karp
A Potter's Book by Bernard Leach
Prejudices: A Selection by H. L. Mencken
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh
Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
A River Runs through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
Rivers of Empire by Donald Worster
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener by Fern Marshall Bradley
Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Alfred C. Kinsey
The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens
The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord
Sister of The Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha - as told to Dr. Ben Reitman (NABAT) by Ben Reitman
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, (Ethno-Mycological Studies) by Robert Gordon Wasson
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Studies in the Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis
Technics & Civilization by Lewis Mumford
Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison
The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist 1965-1994 by Andrew Kopkind
The Threat by Andrew Cockburn
To the Finland station : a study in the writing and acting of history by Edmund Wilson
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
War Without Mercy by John W. Dower
Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis by Gerald Hanley
We the Jury: The Impact of Jurors on Our Basic Freedoms : Great Jury Trials of History by Godfrey D. Lehman
Western Garden Book by Sunset Books
What Is History? by Edward Hallet Carr
The world turned upside down: radical ideas during the English Revolution by Christopher Hill

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