TOP TEN BOOKS

Miners life

Adam Smith in Beijing and The Rhondda by William Wall

Image: Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Archbishop Emeritus DESMOND TUTU's TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION)



1. Tales from Shakespeare
by Charles and Mary Lamb

2. Naught for Your Comfort
by Fr Trevor Huddleston

3. Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens

4. Cry the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton

5. Down 6th Avenue
by E Mphahlele

6. Country of My Skull
by Antjie Krog

7. Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela

8. I write what I Like
by Steve B Biko

9. Let My People Go
by Albert Luthuli

10. July’s People
by Nadine Gordimer





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Image: Tony Benn

TONY BENN'S TOP TEN BOOKS: (NON-FICTION)
Tony put The Bible at the top.
(See notes below)



1) Das Capital
by Karl Marx

2) The Communist Manifesto
by Marx and Engels

3) Common Sense
by Tom Paine

4) Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler

5) Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
by Tawney

6) In Place of Fear
by Nye Bevan

7) The Making of the English Working Class
by E P Thompson

8) Origin of Species
by Darwin

9) Parliamentary Socialism
by Ralph Miliband

10) The World Turned upside Down
by Christopher Hill




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BRUCE KENT'S TOP TEN BOOKS (NON FICTION)


1) The Periodic table
by Primo Levi

2) The Withered Garland
by Peter Johnson
(Wartime Bomber Pilot)

3) The Psalms (especially Psalm 8)
The Bible

4) The Long Loneliness
by Dorothy Day
(Catholic Worker founder)

5) In Solitary Witness
by Gordon Zahn
(the Franz Jagerstatter story)

6) The Fourfold Vision
by Dr. Sherwood Taylor
(Four roads to knowledge)

7) Praise of Folly
by Desiderus Erasmus

8) The United Nations Charter
- especially the Preface.

9) Edmund Campion S.J.
(Jesuit priest and martyr)
by Evelyn Waugh

10) Double Harness
by Robin Tanner
(Quaker educationalist and artist)



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BRUCE KENT'S TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION)


1) The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene

2) A Suitable Boy
by Vikran Seth

3) South Riding
by Winifred Holtby

4) Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell

5) A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens

6) Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame

7) The Towers of Trebizond
by Rose Macauley

8) Put Out More Flags
by Evelyn Waugh

9) The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco

10) Sarum
by Edward Rutherford

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RICHARD NEVILLE was/is a hero of mine.
Here is an Australian who made me feel
culturally inferior...and whose glorious
and artful anarchy "inspired millions !"




RICHARD NEVILLE'S TOP TEN BOOKS.

(These choices are NOT in order of merit!)



1) The Upside of Down.
(Catastrophe, Creativity and the
Renewal of Civilisation.)
by Thomas Homer-Dixon.

2) On the Road.
by Jack Kerouac.

3) Crime and Punishment.
(a timeless insight into serial killers,
psychopaths & generals).
by Dostoevsky

4) For the Term of His Natural Life
(Why Australians were once
so anti authoritarian).
by Marcus Clarke.

5) The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry.
(a reminder that alternative current of US
is so much wiser than the mainstream;)
edited by Alan Kaufman

6) Down & Out in London & Paris.
by George Orwell.

7) The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton

8) East of Time
(“The determination of an entire community to
remain human in the face of its greatest peril”).
by Jacob G Rosenberg

9) Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,
(an incredible best seller, rarely reviewed,
the hidden & astonishing tale of Third World rape).
by John Perkins.

10) Martha Gellhorn
(A thrilling ride thru the modern era;
gossipy, intimate, geo-political,
truth seeking .....)
by Caroline Moorehead.



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Image: Dafydd Iwan

DAFYDD IWAN'S TOP TEN BOOKS

... WALES' GREATEST FOLK-SINGER
(President of Plaid Cymru... founder of Sain, Wales' premier Record Label..
Councillor... the list is endless !)





DAFYDD IWAN's TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION):



1) Cysgod y Cryman:
by Islwyn Ffowc Elis

2) Martha, Jac a Sianco:
by Caryl Lewis

3) A Passage to India:
by E.M. Forster

4) Rhys Lewis:
by Daniel Owen

5) A Man’s Estate:
by Emyr Humphreys

6) The Learning Lark:
by Glyn Jones

7) English Passengers:
by Matthew Kneale

8) Grapes of Wrath:
by John Steinbeck

9) Y Stafell Ddirgel:
by Marion Eames

10) Oliver Twist:
by Charles Dickens




DAFYDD IWAN's TOP TEN BOOKS (NON-FICTION):



1) Ysgrifau:
by T.H. Parry-Williams

2) Seeing the Blossom:
by Dennis Potter

3) Miscellany:
by Emyr Humphreys

4) Aros Mae:
by Gwynfor Evans

5) Hanes Cymru:
by John Davies

6) Cerddi:
by T.H. Parry-Williams

7) Y Coed:
by Gwenallt

8) Stupid White Men:
by Michael Moore

9) The Green Desert:
by Harri Webb

10) Owain Glyn Dwr:
by R.R. Davies





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JOHN STANTON'S TOP TEN BOOKS

JOHN STANTON, one of the world's greatest living authors.


TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION)



1) Johnny Got His Gun -
by Dalton Trumbo

2) Life and Fate -
by Vasily Grossman

3) We —
by Yevgeney Zamyatin

4) Master and Margarita -
by Mikhail Bulgakov

5) Cement -
by Fyodor Gladkov

6) Three Tales -
by Gustave Flaubert

7) Death on the Installment Plan -
by Louis Celine

8) Briefing for a Descent into Hell -
by Dorris Lessing

9) Children's Book -
by Leo Tolstoy

10) Flatland -
by Edwin Abbot





TOP TEN BOOKS (NON-FICTION)



1) Five Moral Pieces -
by Umberto Ecco

2) Mimesis -
by Erich Auerbach

3) Talks with the Devil -
by PD Ouspensky

4) The Future of Life and Consilience -
by Edmund Wilson

5) One Dimensional Man -
by Herbert Marcuse

6) The Way of the Animal Powers -
by Joseph Campbell

7) On the Nature of the Universe -
by Lucretius

8) Tarrying with the Negative -
by Slajov Zizek

9) From Dawn to Decadence -
by Jacques Barzun

10) History and Class Consciousness -
by Georgy Lukacs

(John included these texts, in his choice:
see notes below.)

Tao Te Ching: Lao Tzu
Gospel According to Saint Matthew





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Image: Kathy Kelly.

KATHY KELLY'S TOP TEN BOOKS :

Kathy Kelly is co-founder of
Voices in the Wilderness
and co-coordinator of
Voices for Creative Nonviolence.


Kathy Kelly's TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION):


1) Periodic Table
by Primo Levi

2) Survival in Auschwitz
by Primo Levi

3) Blindness
by Jose Saramago

4) Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy

5) Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro

6) When We Were Orphans
by Kazuo Ishiguro

7) Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro

8) A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry

9) Such a Long Journey
by Rohinton Mistry

10) Dubliners
by James Joyce










Kathy Kelly's TOP TEN BOOKS (NON-FICTION):


1) From Yale to Jail
by David Dellinger

2) We Are All Part of One Another
by Barbara Deming

3) The New Testament Jesus:
A Revolutionary Biography
by John Dominic Crossan

4) The Quiet Battle
by Mulford Q. Sibley

5) A Harsh and Dreadful Love
by William Miller

6) A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn

7) Living My Life
by Emma Goldman

8) Lead Kindly Light
by Vincent Sheehan

9) Overthrow
by Stephen Kinzer

10) God and Empire
by John Dominic Crossan




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SUSAN ROSENTHAL'S TOP TEN BOOKS.


Susan Rosenthal M.D. whose latest book,
"Power and Powerlessness",
is a superb exposition of what we need to be and do
to effect meaningful change, has her own weblog.
Below are links, respectively, to her book and website.

www.powerandpowerlessness.com

www.powerandpowerlessness.typepad.com

SUSAN ROSENTHAL's TOP TEN BOOKS: NON-FICTION




1) Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell

2) Labor in Irish History
by James Connolly.

3) Ten Days That Shook the World
by John Reed

4) Labor and Monopoly Capital:
The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century
by Harry Braverman

5) The Hidden Injuries of Class
by Sennett & Cobb

6) The Overworked American:
The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Julliet Schor

7) Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at
Salaried Professionals and the Soul-
Battering System that Shapes their Lives
by Jeff Schmidt

8) The Abusive Personality:
Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships
by Donald Dutton

9) Myths of Male Dominance:
Collected Articles of Women
Cross-Culturally
by Eleanor Leacock

10) Capitalism and Slavery.
by Eric Williams



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PROFESSOR ANDREW J. BACEVICH's TOP TEN BOOKS


Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University.
A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his
Ph.D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University.
He is the author of many books and articles,
arguing calmly and magnificently, for a new way forward,
which will benefit both America and the world.



ANDREW J. BACEVICH's TOP TEN BOOKS; FICTION.



Evelyn Waugh, Sword of Honour Trilogy (counts for three)

Graham Greene, The Quiet American

James Salter, The Hunters

James Jones, From Here to Eternity

F. Scott Fitgerald, The Great Gatsby

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

Eric Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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ELLEN ROSSNER FEIG'S TOP TEN BOOKS.

Literaturechick.com

Ellen Rosner Feig is both celebrated author
- The Ex Files: Women, Litigation and Liberty (Adams Media, 2006) -
and runs several websites, including
Literaturechick.com (see above);
an online magazine devoted to --- guess what !


Here are Ellen's Top Ten Books:



1) The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2) The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway

3) You Can't Go Home Again
by Thomas Wolfe

4) The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer

5) The Road
by Cormac McCarthy

6) This Book Will Save Your Life
by AM Homes

7) World's End
by T.C. Boyle

8) Widow for One Year
by John Irving

9) In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl
by Rachel Tresize

10) Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole








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DAVID CAMERON'S FAVOURITES.

David's favourite book as a child was
"Our Island Story",
and as an adult
"Goodbye to All That".

David Beal
Correspondence Secretary
David Cameron's Office.






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NORMAN FINKELSTEIN broke from his busy schedule
to send us this;


"I'm not sure I have 10 "favorite" books.
I have a few which made a deep impression
on me at some point in my life:"



On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Das Capital by Karl Marx

Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky






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POETS TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION)


1) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,
by Robert Tressell.

2) Ecce Homo,
by J.R. Seeley.

3) Island,
by Aldous Huxley.

4) Apocalypse,
by D.H. Lawrence.

5) The Cloister And The Hearth,
by Charles Reade.

6) Apocalypso,
by Robert Rankin.

7) There You Are, But Where Are You?,
by Robert F. Mirvish.

8) Catch 22,
by Joseph Heller.

9) Lady Chatterly's Lover,
by D.H. Lawrence.

10) In His Steps,
by Charles M. Sheldon.

POETS TOP TEN BOOKS (NON-FICTION)


(Excluding the major books of the worlds' religions...
eg., The Bible, because they have an obvious "special" place...
and therefore need no SPECIAL recommendation.)


1) You Can Heal Your Life,
by Louise L. Hay.

2) A Thousand Years Of Welsh History,
by Gwynfor Evans.

3) The Healing Echo,
by Eugene Heimler.

4) Imperialism; The Highest Stage Of Capitalism,
by V.I. Lenin.

5) The Miner's Next Step.
(various)

6) House Of Bush - House Of Saud,
by Craig Unger.

7) Hegemony Or Survival,
by Naom Chomsky

8) How To Win Friends And Influence People,
by Dale Carnegie.

9) The Power Of Positive Thinking,
by N.V. Peale.

10) An Author's Guide To Publishing,
by M. Legat.





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