精選非小說類書單100強：啟發心智的經典推薦

探索啟發思想、拓展視野的100本經典非小說書單！本清單源自《衛報》精選，匯集了涵蓋歷史、科學、文學、哲學等多領域的非凡作品，帶領讀者深入思考與理解世界。本篇整理書目並附上誠品線上目前能購得的版本連結，讓您輕鬆開啟這趟智慧的旅程！

• 100本必讀非小說書籍推薦
  • 書目推薦理由
• 資料來源
• 附註書目

100本必讀非小說書籍推薦

1. The Sixth Extinction《第六次大滅絕: 不自然的歷史》 by Elizabeth Kolbert（2014）
2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)
3. No Logo by Naomi Klein (1999)
4. Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (1998)
5. Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (1995)
6. A Brief History of Time 《時間簡史》 by Stephen Hawking（1988）
7. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1979)
8. Orientalism《東方主義》 by Edward Said（1978）
9. Dispatches by Michael Herr (1977)
10. The Selfish Gene《自私的基因》 by Richard Dawkins

...（以下略列第11至100名，詳見附註書目）

書目推薦理由

這份書單涵蓋了多元的主題：從人類文明發展到個人心靈探索，無論是哲學的深刻思辨、科學的突破創見，還是歷史事件的真實記錄，每本書都提供了獨特的視角，讓讀者在面對複雜世界時更具洞察力。

資料來源

• 《衛報》經典書單：The 100 best nonfiction books - the full list

以上書單為那些希望加深知識、拓展心靈的讀者準備，讓您在閱讀中尋求靈感，並在每本書籍中尋找到一段啟迪人生的旅程。

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Tip：利用本書單作為年度閱讀挑戰，每個月選擇一本不同主題的書，逐步拓展您的思想版圖。

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附註書目

1. The Sixth Extinction《第六次大滅絕: 不自然的歷史》 by Elizabeth Kolbert (伊麗莎白．寇伯特)(2014)，2018/09/21，遠見天下文化出版股份有限公司。
2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)
3. No Logo by Naomi Klein (1999)
4. Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (1998)
5. Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (1995)
6. A Brief History of Time 《時間簡史》 by Stephen Hawking(史蒂芬·霍金) (1988)
7. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1979)
8. Orientalism《東方主義》 by Edward Said (愛德華·薩義德)(1978)
9. Dispatches by Michael Herr (1977)
10. The Selfish Gene《自私的基因》 by Richard Dawkins
11. North by Seamus Heaney (1975)
12. Awakenings by Oliver Sacks (1973)
13. The Female Eunuch《女太監》 by Germaine Greer (1970)
14. Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom by Nik Cohn (1969)
15. The Double Helix by James D Watson (1968)
16. Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag (1966)
17. Ariel by Sylvia Plath (1965)
18. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963)
19. The Making of the English Working Class by EP Thompson (1963)
20. Silent Spring《寂靜的春天》 by Rachel Carson (1962)
21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 《科學革命的結構》 by Thomas S Kuhn(孔恩) (1962)
22. A Grief Observed by CS Lewis (1961)
23. The Elements of Style by William Strunk and EB White (1959)
24. The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith (1958)
25. The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life (1957)
26. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (1955)
27. The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art by Kenneth Clark (1956)
28. The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin (1953)
29. Waiting for Godot 《等待果陀》 by Samuel Beckett (1952/53)
30. A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David (1950)
31. The Great Tradition by FR Leavis (1948)
32. The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper (1947)
33. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (1946)
34. Hiroshima by John Hersey (1946)
35. The Open Society and Its Enemies 《開放社會及其敵人》 by Karl Popper (1945)
36. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945)
37. How to Cook a Wolf by MFK Fisher (1942)
38. Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly (1938)
39. The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
40. The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron (1937)
41. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1936)
42. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (1933)
43. My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill (1930)
44. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1929)
45. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (1929)
46. The Waste Land by TS Eliot (1922)
47. Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed (1919)
48. The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes (1919)
49. The American Language by HL Mencken (1919)
50. Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey (1918)
51. The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois (1903)
52. De Profundis《來自深淵的吶喊: 王爾德獄中書》 by Oscar Wilde (1905)
53. The Varieties of Religious Experience《宗教經驗之種種: 人性的探究》 by William James (1902)
54. Brief Lives by John Aubrey (edited by Andrew Clark, 1898)
55. Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S Grant (1885)
56. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
57. Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (1879)
58. Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear (1871)
59. Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold (1869)
60. On the Origin of Species《物種起源》 by Charles Darwin (1859)
61. On Liberty《論自由》 by John Stuart Mill (1859)
62. The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
63. The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell (1857)
64. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
65. Thesaurus by Dr Peter Mark Roget (1852)
66. London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew (1851)
67. Household Education by Harriet Martineau (1848)
68. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)
69. Essays by RW Emerson (1841)
70. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope (1832)
71. An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster
72. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
73. Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (1807)
74. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park (1799)
75. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1793)
76. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
77. The Life of Samuel Johnson LLD by James Boswell (1791)
78. Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (1790)
79. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano (1789)
80. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White (1789)
81. The Federalist Papers by ‘Publius’ (1788)
82. The Diary of Fanny Burney (1778)
83. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 《羅馬帝國衰亡史 (精簡版) 》by Edward Gibbon (1776-1788)
84. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
85. Common Sense 《常識 》by Tom Paine (1776)
86. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson (1755)
87. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1739)
88. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729)
89. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe (1727)
90. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1689)
91. The Book of Common Prayer (1662)
92. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660)
93. Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk (1658)
94. Leviathan《利維坦》 by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
95. Areopagitica by John Milton (1644)
96. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne (1624)
97. The First Folio by William Shakespeare (1623)
98. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (1621)
99. The History of the World by Walter Raleigh (1614)
100. King James Bible: The Authorised Version (1611)

資料來源：

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/31/the-100-best-nonfiction-books-of-all-time-the-full-list