All-TIME Best Non-Fiction Book list includes Updike

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just released a list of All-TIME Best Non-Fiction Books, and with 1142 of them listed you’d expect that just about every major author would be included. They’re rated, and the Top 10 feature some pretty heavy hitters:

1. Essays by Michel de Montaigne

2. Confessions by Augustine

3. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

4. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

5. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

6. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

7. Pensées by Blaise Pascal

8. The Republic by Plato

9. The Complete Works of Plato by Plato

10. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Among fiction writers, Virginia Woolf (A Room of One’s Own, 1929) placed the highest at #31, followed by Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (1966, #42). Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast clocked in at #64, but you’d have to add a digit to that to get to Updike’s entry:  Self-Consciousness (1989), at #638.