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Favorite Non-Fiction Authors & their Best Books

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8.6

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

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6.8

Tim Cahill

Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

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8.4

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

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Tom Wolfe

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Trip

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Noam Chomsky

Profit Over People

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Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness

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Truman Capote

In Cold Blood

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7.3

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Carl Sagan

Cosmos

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Dave Eggers

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time

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Rick Reilly

Life of Reilly

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Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild

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Norman Mailer

The Executioner's Song

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8.6

Plato

Republic

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Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Immanuel Kant

Critique of Pure Reason

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Albert Einstein

Relativity: The Special and General Theory

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Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince

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Sir James George Frazer

The Golden Bough

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Margaret Mead

Coming of in Samoa

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Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species

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Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich

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Alfred Kinsey

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male/Female (all volumes)

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8.1

Aldous Huxley

The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

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7.6

Richard Dawkins

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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Benjamin Franklin

The Way to Wealth

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Hunter S. Thompson

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

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Jane Goodall

In the Shadow of Man

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Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A Discourse on Inequality

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Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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T.E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

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Carl Bernstein

All the President's Men

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Sigmund Freud

The Interpretation of Dreams

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Marcus Aurelius

Mediations

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William S. Burroughs

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

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Rene Descartes

Meditations on First Philosophy

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7.5

Hannah Arendt

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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Voltaire

Candide

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Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan

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James Watson

The Double Helix

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Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point

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Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

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David Foster Wallace

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

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Thomas Paine

Common Sense

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Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth

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David McCullough

John Adams

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This list was created by and in the opinion of Stephen H Koontz

Some authors might be known for fiction just as much as non-fiction, but here are the non-fictions; and I add, some of these have the skeleton of fiction but are not really, at their core.