Non-fiction 10 or so

[Mark A. Douglas]

1)     Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
2)     Woody Guthrie: A Life - Joe Klein
3)     Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
4)    Walden - Henry David Thoreau
5)    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
6)    In the Spirit of Crazy Horse - Peter Matthiessen
7)    The End of Nature - Bill McKibbon
8)    Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
9)    Grizzly Years - Doug Peacock
10)    The Seven-Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton
11)    Black Elk Speaks - Black Elk
12)    ...and this list sucks because a) it leaves out history completely,
b) it's very late 20th century oriented because that's the world we live in
now, and c) there's way too many titles to include ... I'm somehow finding
it easier with fiction than with non- ... novels are subjective, and
shifting, and but non- is supposed to speak to a Truth (as it understands
itself to be capitalized) and all of a sudden I'm wrapped up in 'well, which
Truth (as it understands itself...)'.  I mean, technically, _The Divine
Comedy_ can be categorized as Non-fiction, and do I really think Joe Klein
outduels Dante?
 
If a non-fiction list is appointed to be done (by whomever has say in such
appointments), I'm going to need some narrower parameters.  Maybe even some
definitions.  Is _Maus_ non-fiction or fiction?  What about Shakespeare?
And the ancient religious/mythology tracts?  Would _The Universe of the
Silver Surfer_ be considered a work of non-fiction?   
 
Peace
 
Mark  
 
 Every man seeks peace by waging war, but no man seeks war by making peace
-- St Augustine

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own -- La
Rochefoucauld

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy --
Nietzsche 
 
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