Can you name the The 100 Greatest Non-Fiction Books According to the Guardian?

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Society
Voltaire (1734) 
Erasmus (1511) 
Christine de Pisan (1405) 
Émile Durkheim (1897) 
Max Weber (1922) 
Virginia Woolf (1929) 
James Agee and Walker Evans (1941) 
Betty Friedan (1963) 
Truman Capote (1966) 
Joan Didion (1968) 
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1973) 
Michel Foucault (1975) 
Gabriel García Márquez (1996) 
Politics
Sun Tzu (c500 BC) 
Niccolò Machiavelli (1532) 
Thomas Hobbes (1651) 
Thomas Paine (1791) 
Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) 
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848) 
WEB DuBois (1903) 
Simone de Beauvoir (1949) 
Franz Fanon (1961) 
Marshall McLuhan (1967) 
Germaine Greer (1970) 
Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman (1988) 
Clay Shirky (2008) 
Philosophy
Plato (c380 BC) 
Marcus Aurelius (c180) 
Michel de Montaigne (1580) 
Robert Burton (1621) 
René Descartes (1641) 
David Hume (1779) 
Immanuel Kant (1781) 
GWF Hegel (1807) 
HD Thoreau (1854) 
John Stuart Mill (1859) 
Friedrich Nietzsche (1883) 
Thomas Kuhn (1962) 
History
Herodotus (c400 BC) 
Edward Gibbon (1776) 
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1848) 
Hannah Arendt (1963) 
EP Thompson (1963) 
Dee Brown (1970) 
Studs Terkel (1970) 
Ryszard Kapuściński (1982) 
Eric Hobsbawm (1994) 
Philip Gourevitch (1999) 
Tony Judt (2005) 
Memoir
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782) 
Frederick Douglass (1845) 
Oscar Wilde (1905) 
TE Lawrence (1922) 
George Orwell (1938) 
Mahatma Gandhi (1927) 
Anne Frank (1947) 
Vladimir Nabokov (1951) 
Wole Soyinka (1971) 
Primo Levi (1975) 
Lorna Sage (2000) 
Travel
Ibn Battuta (1355) 
Mark Twain (1869) 
Rebecca West (1941) 
Jan Morris (1960) 
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1977) 
Claudio Magris (1986) 
Cao Jinqing (1995) 
WG Sebald (1995) 
Jonathan Raban (2000) 
Mario Vargas Llosa (2002) 
Biography
Giorgio Vasari (1550) 
James Boswell (1791) 
Samuel Pepys (1825) 
Lytton Strachey (1918) 
Robert Graves (1929) 
Gertrude Stein (1933) 
Science
Charles Darwin (1859) 
Richard Feynmann (1965) 
James Watson (1968) 
Richard Dawkins (1976) 
Stephen Hawking (1988) 
Art
Robert Hughes (1980) 
Ernst Gombrich (1950) 
John Berger (1972) 
Culture
Susan Sontag (1964) 
Roland Barthes (1972) 
Edward Said (1978) 
Environment
Rachel Carson (1962) 
James Lovelock (1979) 
Journalism
Janet Malcolm (1990) 
Tom Wolfe (1968) 
Michael Herr (1977) 
Literature
Samuel Johnson (1781) 
Chinua Achebe (1975) 
Bruno Bettelheim (1976) 
Mathematics
Douglas Hofstadter (1979) 
Mind
Sigmund Freud (1899) 
Music
Charles Rosen (1998) 
Religion
James George Frazer (1890) 
William James (1902) 
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The 100 Greatest Non-Fiction Books Quiz

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