Guardian's 100 best nonfiction books: What do you have?

18, but I would do much better if I counted excerpts as well. (College! Where you read a lot of excerpts of things!) This list spans thousands of years, and there are some very strong choices on here (THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM) and a few I've never heard of before. Hey, why haven't I read NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING yet?

For fun, contrast this list with the Modern Library 100 best nonfiction books (which I haven't even attempted to tackle yet, but all right, 11). Interestingly, the ML list has Churchill's World War II history on there, but the British newspaper didn't seem to think it worth inclusion. For even more fun, contrast that list with the "Reader's List" on the right side, displaying a voting process clearly dominated by Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard fans.

Thanks to regular commenter Elizabeth for mailing this in.

"In the early nineteen-sixties, books, for some reason, were bombs." Louis Menand in The New Yorker on THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE