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So /lit/, i need a non-fiction book to read, do you have any suggestions?

>> No.1496526
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Against Method by Paul Feyerabend

>> No.1496528

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

>> No.1496531

History of Madness: Michael Foucault.

>> No.1496533

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

>> No.1496713

stalingrad by antony cheevor

>> No.1496720

The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara

>> No.1496729

>>1496720
fiction!

>> No.1496731

>>1496729
The civil war didn't happen?

>> No.1496765

I'd suggest something from the 'Penguine Great Ideas' collection. They're short and you can take a lot away from them. Cheap, too

>> No.1496770

Ways of Seeing by John Berger. Super short, super sweet.

>> No.1497745

Peoples History of the United States - Howard Zinn

I'm also looking for suggestions.

>> No.1497767

Procession of the Dead by Darren Shan

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>>1497745
Check out eric hobsbawm. He's a bit drier and less polemical but still excellent.

Also just finished 'leviathan' by philip hoare. Thouroughly recommend it

>> No.1497789

Hells Angels by Hunter S Thompson.