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The Modern Library's List of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books for the Century

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  1. The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams
  2. The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James
  3. Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
  4. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf
  5. Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
  6. Selected Essays, 1917-1932, by T.S. Eliot
  7. The Double Helix, by James D. Watson
  8. Speak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov
  9. The American Language, by H.L. Mencken
  10. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, by John Maynard Keynes
  11. The Lives of A Cell, by Lewis Thomas
  12. The Frontier in American History, by Frederick Jackson Turner
  13. Black Boy, by Richard Wright
  14. Aspects of the Novel, by E.M. Forster
  15. The Civil War*, by Shelby Foote
  16. The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman
  17. The Proper Study of Mankind, by Isaiah Berlin
  18. The Nature and Destiny of Man*, by Reinhold Niebuhr
  19. Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin
  20. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
  21. The Elements of Style, by William Strunk & E.B. White
  22. An American Dilemma*, by Gunnar Myrdal
  23. Principia Mathematica, by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
  24. The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen Jay Gould
  25. The Mirror and the Lamp, by M.H. Abrams
  26. The Art of the Solube, by Peter Medawar
  27. The Ants, by Bert Hoelldobler and E.O. Wilson
  28. A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls
  29. Art and Illusion, by E.H. Gombrich
  30. The Making of the English Working Class, by E.P. Thompson
  31. The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. DuBois
  32. Principia Ethica, by G.E. Moore
  33. Philosophy and Civilization, by John Dewey
  34. On Growth and Form, by D'Arcy Thompson
  35. Ideas and Opinions, by Albert Einstein
  36. The Age of Jackson, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  37. The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
  38. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
  39. Autobiographies*, by W.B. Yeats
  40. Science and Civilization in China, by Joseph Needham
  41. Goodbye to All That, by Robert Graves
  42. Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell
  43. The Autobiography of Mark Twain, by Mark Twain
  44. Children of Crisis*, by Robert Coles
  45. A Study of History*, by Arnold Toynbee
  46. The Affluent Society, by John Kenneth Galbraith
  47. Present at the Creation, by Dean Acheson
  48. The Great Bridge, by David McCullough
  49. Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson
  50. Samuel Johnson, by W.J. Bate
  51. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
  52. The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
  53. Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey
  54. Working, by Studs Terkel
  55. Darkenss Visible, by William Styron
  56. The Liberal Imagination, by Lionel Trilling
  57. The Second World War, by Winston Churchill
  58. Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
  59. Jefferson and His Time*, by Dumas Malone
  60. In the American Grain, by William Carlos Williams
  61. Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner
  62. The House of Morgan, by Ron Chernow
  63. The Sweet Science, by A.J. Liebling
  64. The Open Society and its Enemies, by Karl Popper
  65. The Art of Memory, by Frances Yates
  66. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, by R.H. Tawney
  67. A Preface to Morals, by Walter Lippmann
  68. The Gate of Heavenly Peace, by Jonathan Spence
  69. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn
  70. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, by C. Vann Woodward
  71. The Rise of the West, by William H. McNeill
  72. The Gnostic Gospels, by Elaine Pagels
  73. James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann
  74. Florence Nightingale, by Cecil Woodham-Smith
  75. The Great War and Modern Memory, by Paul Fussell
  76. The City in History, by Lewis Mumford
  77. Battle Cry of Freedom, by James M. Macpherson
  78. Why We Can't Wait, by Martin Luther King Jr.
  79. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris
  80. Studies in Iconology, by Erwin Panofsky
  81. The Face of Battle, by John Keegan
  82. The Strange Death of Liberal England, by George Dangerfield
  83. Vermeer, by Lawrence Gowing
  84. A Bright Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan
  85. West With the Night, by Beryl Markham
  86. This Boy's Life, by Tobias Wolff
  87. A Mathematician's Apology, by G.H. Hardy
  88. Six Easy Pieces, by Richard Feynman
  89. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
  90. The Golden Bough, by James George Frazier
  91. Shadow and Act, by Ralph Ellison
  92. The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro
  93. The American Political Tradition, by Richard Hofstadter
  94. The Contours of American History, by William Appleman Williams
  95. The Promise of American Life, by Herbert Croly
  96. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
  97. The Journalist and the Murderer, by Janet Malcolm
  98. The Taming of Chance, by Ian Hacking
  99. Operating Instructions, by Anne Lamott
  100. Melbourne, by David Cecil
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