Some of these are new but a lot of them are books I read a while back that I just remembered now. Feel free to comment.
William S. Burroughs, Terry Wilson, and Brian Gysin: Here to Go: Planet R-101 - Brian Gysin Interviewed by Terry Wilson (excerpt) (literary interviews).
Philippe Ariès: Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (45 pages) (French history of childhood).
William L. Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (60 pages) (Nazi history).
Kenzaburo Oe: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (excerpt) (Japanese modernist dystopian plague novel).
Theodora Kroeber: Ishi in Two Worlds (American Indian biography).
Alfred Kroeber: Handbook of the Indians of California (anthropology).
Abbie Hoffman: Steal This Book (counterculture); Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (American radical autobiography).
Flora Rheta Schreiber: Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Multiple Personalities (psychology).
Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry: Helter Skelter: The True Story of The Manson M…
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