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In Cold Blood
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
The Right Stuff
Hell's Angels
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
The White Album
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
Hiroshima
The Executioner's Song
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Year of Magical Thinking
Dispatches
As Time Goes By by W. Royce AdamsThe Ride by Kostya KennedyAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsI Did Not Survive. I Just Refused To Stop. by MissFit WritesUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Best nonfiction
97 books — 39 voters
Songs from the Well by Adam Byrn TrittThe Uncommon Thread by R. Scott AndersonSlouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan DidionEssays by George OrwellThe White Album by Joan Didion
Best essays/essayists
223 books — 69 voters

Lawrence Durrell
“ It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. 'I am watching you -- are you watching yourself in me?' Most travelers hurry too much...the great thing is to try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not to much factual information. ...more ”
― Lawrence Durrell, Spirit of Place : Letters and Essays on Travel

Lawrence Wright
“ I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. ...more ”
― Lawrence Wright

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