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Favorite 100 Nonfiction Books in Translation Published in English Since 1900 |
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Favorite 100 Nonfiction Books in Translation Published in English Since 1900 |
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CounterPunch is a bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. In 2001 the editors compiled a list of their favorite 100 books of nonfiction first published in English in the 20th century. A year later they prepared this list noting that since the first list generated much commentary and debate they prepared this list of nonfiction books in translation published in English since 1900. "The titles are presented here in alphabetic order by author. In general, the rule was only one title per author. But we made two exceptions: for Foucault and Freud. Also some will note the inclusion of several books (I Ching, Marx, Kraft-Ebing) that were written prior to 1900. But our interest here is when they were published in English." There are actually 138 titles in this list.
| Roald Amundsen | The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1912 |
| Antonin Artaud | Theater and Its Double |
| Theodor Adorno | Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life |
| Philippe Aries | The Hour of Our Death |
| Eric Auerbach | Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature |
| Gaston Bachelard | The Poetics of Space |
| Roland Barthes | Mythologies |
| Georges Bataille | Eroticism: Death and Sensuality |
| Hanna Batatu | The Egyptian, Syrian, and Iraqi Revolutions: Some Observations on Their Underlying Causes and Social Character |
| Andre Bazin | Orson Welles: A Critical View |
| Walter Benjamin | Illuminations |
| Black Elk | Black Elk Speaks |
| Marc Bloch | Feudal Society |
| Franz Boas | Chinook Texts |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Other Inquisitions |
| Fernand Braudel | The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II |
| Bertolt Brecht | The Development of an Aesthetic |
| Andre Breton | Manifestoes of Surrealism |
| Abbe Henri Breuil | The Evolution of Rock Art in the Caves of France |
| Luis Bunuel | My Last Sigh |
| Walter Burkert | Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth |
| Roger Caillois | Man, Play and Games |
| Cornelius Castoriadis | Political and Social Writings |
| Alexander V. Chayanov | Theory of Peasant Economy |
| Le Corbusier | Towards a New Architecture |
| Curnonsky | Traditional French Cooking |
| Euclides da Cunha | Rebellion in the Backlands |
| Salavador Dali | The Secret Life of Salvador Dali |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Second Sex |
| Guy Debord | The Society of the Spectacle |
| Jacques Derrida | Of Grammatology |
| Marcel Detienne | Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology |
| Rene Dumont | Stranglehold on Africa |
| Emile Durkheim | Suicide: A Study in Sociology |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Film Form |
| Mircea Eliaade | The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion |
| Norbert Elias | The Civilizing Process |
| Frantz Fanon | The Wretched of the Earth |
| Hassan Fathy | Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt |
| Elie Faure | History of Art |
| Michel Foucault | Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison |
| Michel Foucault | The History of Sexuality: An Introduction |
| Anne Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl |
| Paulo Freire | Pedagogy of the Oppressed |
| Sigmund Freud | The Psychopathology of Everyday Life |
| Sigmund Freud | Three Essays in the Theory of Sexuality |
| Karl von Frisch | The Dancing Bees: An Account of the Life and Senses of the Honey Bee |
| Birute Galdikas | Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo |
| Eduardo Galeano | Memory of Fire |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Gandhi: An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth |
| Vo Nguyen Giap | How We Won the War |
| Andre Gide | Travels in the Congo |
| Sigfried Giedion | Mechanization Takes Command |
| P.V. Glob | The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved |
| Andre Gorz | Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology |
| Serge Guilbaut | How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art |
| Ernst Hans Gombrich | Art and Illusion |
| Antonio Gramsci | Prison Notebooks |
| Ernesto "Che" Guevera | Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956-58 |
| Gustavo Gutierrez | A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation |
| Heinrich Harrer | Seven Years in Tibet |
| Arnold Hauser | The Social History of Art |
| Martin Heidegger | Being and Time |
| Thor Heyerdahl | Kon-Tiki |
| Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno | The Dialectic of Enlightenment |
| Johan Huizinga | Autumn of the Middle Ages |
| Luce Irigary | This Sex Which Is Not One |
| Teiji Itoh | The Gardens of Japan |
| Hans Jonas | The Gnostic Religion |
| Carl Jung (Introduction) | I Ching |
| Carl Jung | Memories, Dreams, Reflections |
| Alain Danielou (Translator) | Kama-Sutra: Complete and Unexpurgated Translation |
| Lilikala Kame'Eleihiwa | Kamapua'a: The Hawai'ian Pig-God |
| Jan Kott | Shakespeare Our Contemporary |
| Richard von Krafft-Ebing | Psychopathia Sexualis |
| Petr Kropotkin | The Conquest of Bread |
| Emmanuel Le Roi Ladurie | Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error |
| Vladimir Lenin | The State and Revolution |
| Georges Lefebvre | The Coming of the French Revolution |
| Henri Lefebvre | Critique of Everyday Life |
| Miguel Leon-Portilla | The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | Tristes Tropiques |
| Carlo Levi | Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year |
| Primo Levi | The Periodic Table |
| El Lissitsky | Russia: An Architecture for World Revolution |
| Adolf Loos | Ornament and Crime |
| Konrad Lorenz | Man Meets Dog |
| Georg Lukacs | History and Class Consciousness |
| Patrice Lumumba | Lumumba Speaks: The Speaches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba |
| Rosa Luxemburg | Luxenburg Speaks |
| Alma Mahler-Werfel | The Diaries |
| Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau | The Works of the People of Old: Na Hana a Ka Po'E Kahiko |
| Mao Tse-Tung | On Guerilla Warfare |
| Subcomandante Marcos | Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapista Army of National Liberation |
| Karl Marx | The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 |
| Marcel Mauss | The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies |
| Rigoberta Menchu | I, Rigobeta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala |
| Maurice Merleau Ponty | Sense and Non-Sense |
| Dmitry Svyatopolk Mirsky | A History of Russian Literature: From Its beginnings to 1900 |
| Miyamoto Musashi | The Book of Five Rings |
| Arne Naess | Ecology, Community and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy |
| Franz Neuman | Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-44 |
| Kenzaburo Oe | Hiroshima Notes |
| Erwin Panofsky | Perspective As Symbolic Form |
| Vilfredo Pareto | The Mind and Society |
| Pele | My Life and the Beautiful Game |
| Vladimir Aioakovlevich Propp | Morphology of the Folktale |
| Wilhelm Reich | Character Analysis |
| Jean Renoir | Renoir, My Father |
| Alain Robbe-Grillet | For a New Novel |
| Nawal el Saadawi | Memoirs from the Women's Prison |
| Marquis de Sade | Letters from Prison |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War, 1939-40 |
| Ferdinand de Saussure | Course in General Linguistics |
| Gershom Gerhard Scholem | Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah |
| Gaynor Sekimori (Translator) | Hibakusha: Accounts by Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Victor Serge | Memoirs of a Revolutionary |
| Sei Shonagon | Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon |
| Georg Simmel | The Philosophy of Money |
| Peter Sloterdijk | Critique of Cynical Reason |
| Georges Sorel | Reflections on Violence |
| Konstantin Stanislavski | An Actor Prepares |
| N.N. Sukhanov | The Russian Revolution, 1917 |
| D.T. Suzuki | Zen Buddhism |
| Dennis Tedlock (Translator) | Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life |
| Robert Thurman (Translator) | Tibetan Book of the Dead |
| Niko Tinbergen | Curious Naturalists |
| Ernst Troeltsch | The Social Teachings of the Christian Churches |
| Francois Truffaut | The Films in My Life |
| Vincent Van Gogh | The Complete Letters |
| Immanuel Velikovsky | Worlds in Collision |
| Paul Veyne | The Roman Empire |
| Franz Werfel | The Forty Days of Musa Dagh |
| Max Weber | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism |
| Karl August Wittfogel | Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Philosophical Investigations |
| Peter Wollen (Editor) | On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: Situationist International, 1957-1972 |
| Stefan Zweig | A World of Yesterday |
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