June 15, 1999

CounterPunch’s Top 100 (and a few more) Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

Jeffrey St. Clair - Alexander Cockburn
Edward Abbey

Desert
Solitaire: a season in the wilderness

  
Louis
Adamic

Dynamite: a century of class violence in America 1830-1930
 Out of Print
Philip
Agee

Inside the Company: CIA diary

   Out of Print
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murry Silverstein

A
Pattern Language: towns, building and construction 

  
Jack
Anderson

Confessions of a Muckraker :

the inside story of life in Washington during the Truman, Eisenhower,
Kennedy and Johnson years

  Out of Print
Kenneth Anger

Hollywood
Babylon 

  
Hannah Arendt

Eichmann
in Jerusalem:

a report on the banality of evil 

  
David Arora

Mushrooms
Demystified:

a guide to the fleshy fungi

  
Sylvia
Ashton-Warner

Spinster

  Out of Print
James Baldwin

The
Devil Finds Work

  
Reyner Banham

Los
Angeles: the architecture of

four ecologies 

  
Joseph Borkin

The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben

 Out of Print 
B.A. Botkin

A Treasury of Mississippi River Folktales

 Out of Print 
Jim Bouten

Ball
Four

  
Richard Boyer and Herbert Morais

Labor’s
Untold Story
Marshall
Bradley, Fern Bradley and Barbara Ellis

The
Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

  
Harry Braverman

Labor
and Monopoly Capital: the degradation of work in the Twentieth
Century
Kathleen Brenzel

Western
Garden Book 

  
David Brower

For the Earth’s Sake

  Out of Print 
Norman O. Brown

Life
Against Death: the psychoanalytical meaning of history
Robert
Byron

The Road to Oxiana

  Out of Print
E.H.
Carr

What
Is History?

  
Allan Chase

The Legacy of Malthus

 Out of Print 
Samuel B. Charters

The
Country Blues
Noam Chomsky

The
Fateful Triangle: the United States, Israel and the Palestinians

  
Andrew Cockburn

The Threat: inside the Soviet military machine

  Out of Print
Claud Cockburn

I Claud

  Out of Print 

Jeffrey St. Clair is editor of CounterPunch. His new book is The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink co-written with Joshua Frank. He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net. Alexander Cockburn’s Guillotined! and A Colossal Wreck are available from CounterPunch.