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Classic Books: Nonfiction

A suggested reading guide to immerse oneself in the classics

Nonfiction

The Histories

by Herodotus

First Published: ca 450 B. C. E.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

First Published: 411 B. C. E.

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

First Published: ca 400 B. C. E.

The Republic

by Plato

First Published: 380 B. C. E.

Poetics

by Aristotle

First Published: 335 B. C. E.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

First Published: 1776

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

First Published: 1789

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

First Published: 1840

Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings

by John Thoreau

First Published: 1844

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

First Published: 1859

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

First Published: 1859

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs

First published: 1861

History of the United States of America

by Henry William Elson

First Published: 1889

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

First Published: 1899

The Elements of Style

by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

First Published: 1919

The Meaning of Relativity

by Albert Einstein

First Published: 1922

How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

First Published: 1936

Dusk of Dawn

by W.E.B. Du Bois

First Published: 1940

The Mathematical Theory of Communication

by Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver

First Published: 1949

Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

First Published: 1960

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs

First Published: 1961

The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

First Published: 1962

In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

First Published: 1965

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

First Published: 1969

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

by Dee Brown

First Published: 1970

God Is Red

by Vine Deloria Jr.

First Published: 1972

The demon-haunted world: Science as a candle in the dark

by Carl Sagan

First published: 1995

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