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Favorite Non-Fiction in random order
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador)The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) by Oliver Sacks
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.96
What a genius Sacks is.
In SiberiaIn Siberia by Colin Thubron
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £0.01
Lucid, otherworldy and emotionally shattering
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the PacificThe Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £0.01
A master of the lost art of selfishness
In Patagonia (Vintage classics)In Patagonia (Vintage classics) by Bruce Chatwin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.94
Solvitur Ambulando
Wisdom, Madness and Folly: Making of a Psychiatrist (Canongate Classics)Wisdom, Madness and Folly: Making of a Psychiatrist (Canongate Classics) by R.D. Laing
Buy used from: £7.99
Psychology and compassion. A rare mixture.
Storming Heaven: Lsd and the American DreamStorming Heaven: Lsd and the American Dream by Jay Stevens
Buy used from: £10.97
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Flamingo)Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Flamingo) by C.G. Jung
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What a wonderful man and a great 'tache
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981 to 1991Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981 to 1991 by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £5.68
Rushdie before the dark days, wise to the last.
Fates Worse Than Death (Spokesman pamphlet)Fates Worse Than Death (Spokesman pamphlet) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £9.50
Funny, compassionate and wise.
Journey to the Jade SeaJourney to the Jade Sea by John Hillaby
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inspirational account of a man railing against the boredom of modern life
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition: An Inquiry into ValuesZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £2.42
Awesome.
Man's Search for MeaningMan's Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl
Buy used from: £15.31
Frankl is up there with the angels
The Way of Zen (Arkana)The Way of Zen (Arkana) by Alan Watts
Buy used from: £2.80
I'd love to have gone out on the piss with Alan Watts
Design for DyingDesign for Dying by Timothy Leary
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Look inside Leary's heart and his mind
Lacan (Modern masters)Lacan (Modern masters) by Malcolm Bowie
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Lacan: visionary or muppet? Uplifting or depressing? The jury is out.
Moab is My WashpotMoab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
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Deeply, deeply amusing
Notes from a Small IslandNotes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
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Light relief
The Electric Kool-aid Acid TestThe Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
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Wolfe is a prose master and what a story.
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: Overview of the New PhysicsThe Dancing Wu Li Masters: Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £3.00
Taoism and quantum physics.
A Journey in LadakhA Journey in Ladakh by Andrew Harvey
Buy used from: £6.71
I know he renounced this stuff but it's an amazing story.