top-ten non-fiction?

[joeallonby]

How about Guns, Germs, and Steel?

on 9/18/04 10:54 AM, ojm at p-list at sardonic201.net wrote:

> 
> This is even more difficult than fiction:
> 
> 1.  Confessions, Saint Augustine
> 2.  Essays, Montaigne
> 3.  The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn
> 4.  Basic Writings, Nietzsche (cheating, I know)
> 5.  The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian
> Jaynes
> 6.  The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
> 7.  Collected Works, Charles Sanders Peirce
> 8.  The Education of Henry Adams
> 9.  Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein
> 10.  The Diary of Samuel Pepys
> 
> Needless to say, this is entirely arbitrary.  There is so much left over I
> won\'t even try a close-call list.
> 
> O.
>