Fiatgirl's Chronicle Top 100 Non-Fiction Collection

The San Francisco Chronicle's Best in the West Top 100 Non-Fiction Book List is reproduced below with links to purchase or get more information from Amazon.com. Just click on a title.

See also The Best in the West TOP 100 FICTION

Land of Little Rain
Mary Austin
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
Wallace Stegner
Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey
This House of Sky
Ivan Doig
Son of the Morning Star
Evan S. Connell
The Western Trilogy
Bernard DeVoto (Out of Print.)
Assembling California
John McPhee
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir
The White Album
Joan Didion
City of Quartz
Mike Davis
Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party
George Rippey Stewart
Ishi in Two Worlds
Theodora Kroeber
Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915 (there are four other volumes on different periods)
Kevin Starr
Cadillac Desert
Marc Reisner
A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
California: The Great Exception
Carey McWilliams
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
Young Men and Fire
Norman MacLean
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
Bad Land
Jonathan Raban
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
J.S. Holliday
The Art of Eating
M.F.K. Fisher
And the Band Played On,
Randy Shilts
The Big Four
Oscar Lewis
The Solace of Open Spaces
Gretel Ehrlich
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Peter Matthiessen
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
John Steinbeck, Edward F. Ricketts
The Practice of the Wild
Gary Snyder
Dancing at the Edge of the World
Ursula K. LeGuin
Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
Great Plains
Ian Frazier
The Great Plains
Walter Prescott Webb
Land of Giants: Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950
David Sievert Lavender (Out of Print).
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
Mari Sandoz
City of Nets
Otto Friedrich
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Terry Tempest Williams
The Content of Our Character
Shelby Steele
High Tide in Tucson
Barbara Kingsolver
Winter: Notes from Montana
Rick Bass
Undaunted Courage
Stephen Ambrose
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
I Lost It at the Movies
Pauline Kael
The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Alan Watts
The Hunger of Memory
Richard Rodriguez
Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast
Daniel Duane
This Boy's Life
Tobias Wolff
Books in My Baggage
Lawrence Clark Powell
The California Dream anthology,
edited by Dennis Hale
Jonathan Eisen (Out of Print.)
Men to Match My Mountains
Irving Stone
Love and Will
Rollo May
The Language of the Goddess
Joseph Campbell & Marija Gimbutas
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Henry Miller
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
Walter Alvarez
The Way to Rainy Mountain
N. Scott Momaday
The Man Who Walked Through Time
Colin Fletcher
John Barleycorn
Jack London
Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Ronald Takaki
Dirty Truths: Reflections on Politics, Media, Ideology, Conspiracy, Ethnic Life and Class Power
Michael Parenti
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
Patricia Nelson Limerick
Living Up the Street: Narrative Recollections
Gary Soto
The Captive Mind
Czeslaw Milosz
California Fault: Searching for the Spirit of a State Along the San Andreas
Thurston Clarke
Lonesome Traveler
Jack Kerouac
The Ohlone Way
Malcolm Margolin
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
Ansel Adams
The Great Thirst: Californians and Water
Norris Hundley
Hole in the Sky: A Memoir
William Kittredge
Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
Robert Hass
Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle
Murray Morgan
My Wilderness
William O. Douglas
The Klamath Knot
David Rains Wallace
Sweet Promised Land
Robert Laxalt
History of the Sierra Nevada
Francis P. Farquhar
The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary
John Rechy
Additional Dialogue: The Letters of Dalton Trumbo
Helen Manfield (Editor)
Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists
Steven Bach
The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians
Leonard Pitt
`It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own': A New History of the American West
Richard White
Communalism: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century.
Kenneth Rexroth
I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
Upton Sinclair
And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir
Joan Baez
Miles From Nowhere: In Search of the American Frontier
Dayton Duncan
Winter in Taos
Mabel Dodge Luhan
The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society
Theodore Roszak
Traveling Light
Bill Barich
The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
Leo Braudy
Stepping Westward
Sallie Tisdale
Money and Class In America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion
Lewis H. Lapham
Coming of Age in California: Personal Essays
Gerald Haslam
Sinclair Lewis : An American Life
Mark Schorer
The Life of Dashiel Hammett
Diane Johnson
The town that fought to save itself
Orville Schell
Hide and Seek
Jessamyn West
Anybody's Gold
Joseph Henry Jackson

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