20 Amazing and Essential Non-fiction Books to Enrich Your Library

Here I present the list of best nonfiction books which every one should read. Have a look at them and share your views. If you have any other to add to the list share in comment section below.

1.  The Lives of the Poets by Samuel Johnson (1781)
2.  The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
3.  The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen (1998)
4.  Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes (1641)
5.  The Art of War by Sun Tzu (c500 BC)
6.  The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan (1967)
7.  The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (1902)
8.  A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988)
9.  Suicide by Émile Durkheim (1897)
10.  The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963)
11.  Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (1869)
12.  The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald (1995)
13.  Ways of Seeing by John Berger (1972)
14.  Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey (1918)
15.  Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1929)
16.  Mythologies by Roland Barthes (1972)
17.  The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock (1979)
18.  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1776)
19.  The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm (1990)
20.  Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (1979)