ITT: We create /lit/ top 100 non-fiction books
Post your top three non-fiction books.
>>7734381
non fiction is for boring autistics cunts.
Operacion Masacre - Walsh
The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard
Summa Theologicae by Aquinas
The Bible
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - Wallace
The Western Canon - Bloom
Storm of Steel - Junger
>>7734392
>bible
OP said non-fiction, anon
>>7734392
>The Bible
lol nice one
Top 3 are too few. You should use a google poll thing like the anon who made the fiction list.
The tiger: a true story of vengeance and survival
Asylum: an alcoholic takes the cure
My left foot
Death be not proud
this is gonna be an even bigger shitshow than the top 100 list
pls no
Philosophical Investigations
The Duty of Genius
Confessions
The Bible
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
The Diary of a Young Girl.
The Extended Phenotype
Being No One
Twilight of the Idols
>>7734593
If we divide literature into fiction and non-fiction, then the Bible must clearly be on the latter side. Whether some parts are fictitious or not is another discussion.
>>7734381
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
Interpretation of Dreams - Freud
The Bible
>>7734593
so it would be ok to add other religious texts like the Torah and Koran? The Bhagavad Gita?
What about religious texts that society now deems 'myth' simply because those religions have died out. Gilgamesh, Hesiod, Homer, the Edda, and so on?
not trying to shitpost, I understand your point, but when you extend that reasoning past the Bible, it can start to blur the line.
>>7734381
>Pragmatics Of Human Communication - Watzlawick, Beavin and Jackson
>The Ego And His Own - Max Stirner
>Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
I have some good books to recommend 100% nonfiction
don't worry i checked
Quran
Iliad
Ze Bible
>>7734622
Sure, but they aren't top 100 like the bible.
>>7734622
Well, the Bhagavad Gita, Gilgamesh, Hesiod, The Iliad and the Odyssey are all Epics, and fall more into the fiction category. Though the Vedanta should definitely be in there.
GEB
>>7734662
I'd just like to clarify that Anon probably means Gödel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter
>>7734642
And Genesis, Exodus aren't....? Have you fucking read them?
So much writing from that period was written in 'epic poetry', that's just how writing was done, unless it was things like tax records, or monetary transaction records, etc.
You can't have the Bible not be in the same category as these other works.
>>7734635
good shitpost
In Cold Blood
>>7734381
Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
Jesus of Nazarezh by Joseph Ratzinger
Republic by Plato
Sinckness Onto Death by Kierkegaard
Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton
Aquinas on Law, Morality and Politics
I don't read much non fic to be honest, compared to fiction so making a top 10 is hard.
Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations
A J Ayer: Language, Truth, and Logic
Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling
>>7734752
>Language, Truth, and Logic
I love that book, Ayer writes with almost Nietzschean fervor.
>>7734593
Historical fiction
Ecce Homo by Nietzsche
Being and Time by Heidegger
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by Keynes
>>7734381
Thirteen days by Kennedy
The autobiography of malcolm x
Helen's exile by Camus
Elements de Geometrie Algebrique - Alexandre Grothendieck
A Course in Arithmetic - Jean Pierre Serre
Algebra - Serge Lang
the prince
of the social contract
the ego and its own
The Myth of Sisyphyus - Albert Camus
The follow of fools- Robert Trivers
Economy and society- Max Weber
OP's list is fucking terrible.
>>7734632
Top kek
>>7734381
In the Time of Madness by Richard Lloyd Parry
Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by DFW
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Debt: the first 5000 Years by David Graeber
The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard
Essays by Montaigne
Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes
Honorable mentions:
Pensées by Pascal
The World as Will and Representation by Schopenhauer
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
>>7734381
Mein Kampf
>>7734381
The Story of Art - E.H. Gombrich
Selected Essays - Jorge Luis Borges
Origins of Totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt
Analects - Confucius
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Burke
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The Road To Serfdom - Hayek
Apology - Plato
On the Genealogy of Morality - Nietzsche
>>7734381
After man - Dougal Dixon
Expedition - Wayne Barlowe
The Silent World - Jacques Cousteau
>>7735873
> Grothendieck
good
> Serre
great
> Lang
...you lost me anon
Foucault - Discipline and Punish
Montaigne - Essays
Auerbach - Mimesis
1. The Bible
>>7734628
>>7734381
anything by Nietzsche
Understanding Media and the Guttenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
Prometheus Rising
The Kyballion
Meditations
A Short History of Decay
Tao Te Ching
The Ego and his Own
