Book Lists Liked by <a href="/user/show/6909460-philip">Philip</a> (9 Lists)

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A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books of all time

100 books — 9 voters

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Black Boy by Richard Wright

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Open Yale course: The American Novel Since 1945

14 books — 2 voters

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Booker Prize Winners

63 books — 2,011 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction

100 books — 275 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Ou... by Philip Gourevitch

Best Books by Journalists

296 books — 113 voters

GRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS by Scott L. Nelson

Lucky by Scott Nelson

The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

Classic Travelogues

29 books — 31 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Journey to the West by Biao Wang

The Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons by Sophie Neville

Best Narrative Nonfiction

210 books — 202 voters

Hiroshima by John Hersey

The Powers That Be by David Halberstam

Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul Mason

Inside Story by Julia Goldberg

Spoke by Spoke Guidebook by Terry Chase

Best News Writing and Reporting

14 books — 5 voters

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Man Booker Shortlist

272 books — 88 voters