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100 stora verk av modern kreativ facklitteratur

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Uppsatser, memoarer, självbiografier, biografier, reseskrivning, historia, kulturstudier, naturskrivning - alla dessa passar under den breda rubriken kreativ facklitteratur, och alla är representerade i denna lista över 100 stora verk av kreativ nonfiction publicerad av brittiska och amerikanska författare under de senaste 90 åren eller så. De är ordnade alfabetiskt efter författarens efternamn.

Rekommenderad Creative Nonfiction

  1. Edward Abbey, "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness" (1968)
  2. James Agee, "Låt oss nu berömma kända män" (1941)
  3. Martin Amis, "Experience" (1995)
  4. Maya Angelou, "Jag vet varför den burade fågeln sjunger" (1970)
  5. Russell Baker, "Growing Up" (1982)
  6. James Baldwin, "Notes of a Native Son" (1963)
  7. Julian Barnes, "Inget att bli rädd för" (2008)
  8. Alan Bennett, "Untold Stories" (2005)
  9. Wendell Berry, "Recollected Essays" (1981)
  10. Bill Bryson, "Anteckningar från en liten ö" (1995)
  11. Anthony Burgess, "Little Wilson and Big God: Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess" (1987)
  12. Joseph Campbell, "Hjälten med tusen ansikten" (1949)
  13. Truman Capote, "In Cold Blood" (1965)
  14. Rachel Carson, "Tyst vår" (1962)
  15. Pat Conroy, "Vattnet är brett" (1972)
  16. Harry Crews, "A Childhood: The Biography of a Place" (1978)
  17. Joan Didion, "Vi berättar för oss själva berättelser för att leva: Samlad icke-fiktion" (2006)
  18. Joan Didion, "The Year of Magical Thinking" (2005)
  19. Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood" (1987)
  20. Annie Dillard, "Pilgrim på Tinker Creek" (1974)
  21. Barbara Ehrenreich, "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" ​​(2001)
  22. Gretel Ehrlich, "The Solace of Open Spaces" (1986)
  23. Loren Eiseley, "Den enorma resan: En fantasifull naturforskare utforskar mysterierna om människan och naturen" (1957)
  24. Ralph Ellison, "Shadow and Act" (1964)
  25. Nora Ephron, "Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women" (1975)
  26. Joseph Epstein, "Snobbery: The American Version" (2002)
  27. Richard P. Feynman, "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" (1964)
  28. Shelby Foote, "The Civil War: A Narrative" (1974)
  29. Ian Frazier, "Great Plains" (1989)
  30. Paul Fussell, "The Great War and Modern Memory" (1975)
  31. Stephen Jay Gould, "Ever since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History" (1977)
  32. Robert Graves, "Good-Bye to All That" (1929)
  33. Alex Haley, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (1965)
  34. Pete Hamill, "A Drinking Life: A Memoir" (1994)
  35. Ernest Hemingway, "En rörlig fest" (1964)
  36. Michael Herr, "Dispatches" (1977)
  37. John Hersey, "Hiroshima" (1946)
  38. Laura Hillenbrand, "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption" (2010)
  39. Edward Hoagland, "The Edward Hoagland Reader" (1979)
  40. Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer: Tankes on the Mass of Movements" (1951)
  41. Richard Hofstadter, "Anti-intellektualism i amerikanskt liv" (1963)
  42. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston och James D. Houston, "Farväl till Manzanar" (1973)
  43. Langston Hughes, "The Big Sea" (1940)
  44. Zora Neale Hurston, "Dust Tracks on a Road" (1942)
  45. Aldous Huxley, "Samlade uppsatser" (1958)
  46. Clive James, "Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James" (2001)
  47. Alfred Kazin, "En vandrare i staden" (1951)
  48. Tracy Kidder, "House" (1985)
  49. Maxine Hong Kingston, "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts" (1989)
  50. Thomas Kuhn, "Strukturen för vetenskapliga revolutioner" (1962)
  51. William Least Heat-Moon, "Blue Highways: A Journey Into America" ​​(1982)
  52. Bernard Levin, "Entusiasmer" (1983)
  53. Barry Lopez, "Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape" (1986)
  54. David McCullough, "Truman" (1992)
  55. Dwight Macdonald, "Mot det amerikanska kornet: Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture" (1962)
  56. John McPhee, "Coming Into the Country" (1977)
  57. Rosemary Mahoney, "Horor i kimmage: Irländska kvinnors privata liv" (1993)
  58. Norman Mailer, "Natens arméer" (1968)
  59. Peter Matthiessen, "Snöleoparden" (1979)
  60. H.L. Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing" (1949)
  61. Joseph Mitchell, "Upp i det gamla hotellet och andra berättelser" (1992)
  62. Jessica Mitford, "The American Way of Death" (1963)
  63. N. Scott Momaday, "Namn" (1977)
  64. Lewis Mumford, "The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations and its Prospects" (1961)
  65. Vladimir Nabokov, "Tala, minne: En självbiografi omprövad" (1967)
  66. P. J. O'Rourke, "Whores Parliament" (1991)
  67. Susan Orlean, "My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's been Everywhere" (2004)
  68. George Orwell, "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933)
  69. George Orwell, "Essays" (2002)
  70. Cynthia Ozick, "Metafor och minne" (1989)
  71. Robert Pirsig, "Zen och konsten av motorcykelunderhåll" (1975)
  72. Richard Rodriguez, "Hunger of Memory" (1982)
  73. Lillian Ross, "Bild" (1952)
  74. David Sedaris, "Me Talk Pretty One Day" (2000)
  75. Richard Selzer, "Ta världen in för reparationer" (1986)
  76. Zadie Smith, "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays" (2009)
  77. Susan Sontag, "Mot tolkning och andra uppsatser" (1966)
  78. John Steinbeck, "Reser med Charley" (1962)
  79. Fångar Terkel, "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression" (1970)
  80. Lewis Thomas, "The Lives of a Cell" (1974)
  81. E.P. Thompson, "The Making of the English Working Class" (1963; rev. 1968)
  82. Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" (1971)
  83. James Thurber, "My Life and Hard Times" (1933)
  84. Lionel Trilling, "The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society" (1950)
  85. Barbara Tuchman, "Guns of August" (1962)
  86. John Updike, "Självmedvetande" (1989)
  87. Gore Vidal, "United States: Essays 1952-1992" (1993)
  88. Sarah Vowell, "The Wordy Shipmates" (2008)
  89. Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mothers 'Gardens: Womanist Prose" (1983)
  90. David Foster Wallace, "En förmodligen rolig sak som jag aldrig kommer att göra igen: Essays and Arguments" (1997)
  91. James D. Watson, "The Double Helix" (1968)
  92. Eudora Welty, "En författares början" (1984)
  93. E.B. White, "Essays of E.B. White" (1977)
  94. E.B. White, "One Man's Meat" (1944)
  95. Isabel Wilkerson, "The Suns warmth: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" (2010)
  96. Tom Wolfe, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (1968)
  97. Tom Wolfe, "The Right Stuff" (1979)
  98. Tobias Wolff, "The Boy's Life: A Memoir" (1989)
  99. Virginia Woolf, "Ett rum ensam" (1929)
  100. Richard Wright, "Black Boy" (1945)
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