Its non-fictional counterpart

Another table on which I display non-fiction books (again, not all of which I have read):

1. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
(or) Nature and other essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Gödel Escher Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
3. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
4. anything by John McPhee
5. Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
6. Cadillac Desert - Marc Reisner
7. The History and Topography of Ireland - Gerald of Wales
8. A General History of the Pyrates - Daniel Defoe
9. Phantoms in the Brain - V. S. Ramachandran


10. The Death & Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
11. Nature Writings - John Muir
12. The Unsettling of America - Wendell Berry
13. The Sleepwalkers - Arthur Koestler
(or) A World Lit Only by Fire - William Manchester
14. QED - Richard Feynman
15. A Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
16. something on Zen Buddhism or other well written and interesting philosophy
17. a well written book on some piece of history


18. Relativity - Albert Einstein
(or) On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
19. something about art,
like The Mind's Eye - Henri Cartier-Bresson
or The Artist's Reality Philosophies of Art - Mark Rothko
20. Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond (everyone puts it on their tables already, I know, but it's on mine because I've read it, and it was good).