17 November 2015

BEST 20th CENTURY NON-FICTION

BEST BOOKS of 20th CENTURY NON-FICTION © Farouk Asvat  

THE JOYS OF LITERATURE 
     towards an international library  

     a beginner's guide to the essential books of 20th century non-fiction:
     to understand the cultures of the world in the context of our time.

[] BEST BOOKS of 20th CENTURY NON-FICTION:  

● MARXISM AND OTHER WESTERN FALLACIES: Ali Shariati (iran)
● ISLAM & REVOLUTION: (ayatollah) Sayeed Ruhollah Khomeini (iran)
● IN THE SHADOW OF THE QURAN: Sayyid Qutb (egypt)
● MILESTONES: Sayyid Qutb (egypt)
● THE RECONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN ISLAM: Allama Muhammad Iqbal 
     (pakistan)
● QURANIC FOUNDATIONS: Fazlur Abdur Rahman Ansari (pakistan)
● PALESTINE/ISRAEL: peace or apartheid - prospects for resolving the conflict: Marwan Bishara             (palestine)
● PALESTINE/ISRAEL: peace or apartheid - occupation, terrorism and the future: Marwan Bishara 
     (palestine)
● THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE: Ilan Pappé (palestine)
● THE BIGGEST PRISON ON EARTH - a history of the occupied territories: Ilan Pappé 
     (palestine / britain) 
● … ON REVOLUTION AND WAR: selected writings (1920-1966): Ho Chi Minh (viet nam)
● RED TREASURE BOOK (the little red book): Mao Tse Tung (china)
● ON GUERILLA WARFARE: Mao Tse Tung (china)
● THE MORNING DELUGE: mao tsetong and the chinese revolution 1893-1954: Han Su Yin (china)
● WIND IN THE TOWER: mao tse tong and the chinese revolution 1949-1965: Han Su Yin (china)
● TIGERS & BUTTERFLIES: - 1990: Han Su Yin (china)
● XI JIN PING - THE GOVERNANCE OF CHINA (4 volumes): Xi Jin Ping (china)
● THE CHINESE DREAM OF THE GREAT REJUVENATION OF THE CHINESE NATION: 
     Xi Jin Ping (china)
● SEPPUKU: Yukio Mishima (japan)
● THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH: Mohandas K Gandhi (india)
● SATYAGRAHA IN SOUTH AFRICA: Mohandas K Gandhi (india / south africa)
● OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA: Eduardo Galeano (uruguay)
● PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED: Paulo Freire (brazil)
● MEMOIRS: Pablo Neruda (chile)
● THE ART OF GUERILLA WARFARE: Ernesto (ché) Gueverra (argentina / cuba)
● THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES: Ernesto Ché Guevera (argentina /cuba)
● CAPITALISM IN CRISIS: globalization and world politics today: Fidel Castro (cuba)
● THE PRISON LETTERS: Fidel Castro (cuba)
● RETURN TO MY NATIVE LAND: Aimé Césaire (martinique)
● THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH: Frantz Fanon (martinique)
● BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS: Frantz Fanon (martinique)
● THE BLACK JACOBINS: C L R James (trinidad)
● THE MAN DIED: Wole Soyinka (nigeria)
● RETURN TO THE SOURCE: Amilcar Cabral (guinea-bissau & cape verde)
● DECOLONISING THE MIND: Ngugi wa Thiong'o (kenya)
● THE LOST WORLD OF THE KALAHARI: Laurens van der Post (namibia / south africa)
● I WRITE WHAT I LIKE: Steve Biko (south africa)
● MY LIFE: Leon Trotsky (russia)
● WHAT IS TO BE DONE: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (russia)
● PERESTROIKA: Mikhail Gorbachev (russia)
● THE INTERPETATION OF DREAMS: Sigmund Freud (germany)
● MEIN KAMPF: Adolf Hitler (germany)
● DESCHOOLING SOCIETY: Ivan Illich (germany)
● MEDICAL NEMESIS: Ivan Illich (germany) 1975
● SCEPTICISM AND ANIMAL FAITH: George Santayana (spain / america)
● MY LIFE: Benito Mussolini (italy)
● THE PRISON NOTEBOOKS: Antonio Gramsci (italy)
● HISTORY AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS: György Lukács (hungary)
● DIALOGUE WITH DEATH: Arthur Koestler (hungary)
● MODERN TIMES: Jean-Paul Sartre (france)
● THE SECOND SEX: Simone de Beauvoir (france)
● THE BLOOD OF OTHERS: Simone de Beauvoir (france)
● DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: Alexis de Tocqueville (france)
● THE FOUCAULT READER: Michel Foucault (france)
● A STUDY OF HISTORY: Arnold J Toynbee [12 volumes] (britain)
● THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE: Basil Davidson (britain)
● MAJOR CRITICAL ESSAYS: George Bernard Shaw (britain)
● WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN: Bertrand Russel (britain)
● THE WIND BLOWS AWAY OUR WORDS: Dorris Lessing (zimbabwe / britain / afghanistan)
● THE LAST MUGHAL: the fall of a dynasty, delhi, 1857: William Dalrymple (britain)
● THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILIZATION: the conquest of the middle east: Robert Fisk 
     (britain / lebanon)
● HOLY WAR: the crusades and their impact on today's world: Karen Armstrong (britain)
● MUHAMMAD: a biography of the prophet: Karen Armstrong (britain)
● THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WOMEN:
     christianity's creation of the sex war in the west: Karen Armstrong (britain)
● TELL ME NO LIES: investigative journalism and its triumphs: ed. John Pilger (australia / britain)
● FREEDOM NEXT TIME: John Pilger (australia / britain)
● THE ENDANGERED PLANET: Richard Falk (usa)
● DISPATCHES: Michael Herr (usa)
● WORLD ORDERS: old and new: Noam Chomsky (usa)
● BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE: Dee Brown (usa)
● BURY ME STANDING: Isabel Fonseca (usa)
● ORIENTALISM: Edward Said (palestine / usa)
● AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Malcolm X (usa)
● SOLEDAD BROTHERS: the prison letters of George Jackson (usa)
● IF THEY COME IN THE MORNING: Angela Davis (usa)
● BLACK ATHENA - the afro-asiatic roots of classical civilization: Martin Bernal (usa)
● THE IMPERIAL MESSENGER - thomas friedman at work: Belén Fernández (usa)
● THE 100: a ranking of the most influential persons in history: Michael H Hart (usa)

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● LIVES OF THE PROPHETS: Anwar al Awlaki [21-cd set] (usa)

© farouk asvat

composed: 2010 [johannesburg, south africa under apartheid].

[] acknowledgements:
Best Books of 20th Century Non-Fiction was previously published in:
     Weapons of Words (kindle, 2016);
     Weapons of Words (amazon paperback, p122, 2016).
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:

● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (comparative literature & literary criticism)

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