Modern Library ​100 Best Nonfiction

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 of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
7. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA 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. 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, Jr and E. B. White
22. An American Dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal
23. The 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 Meyer Howard Abrams
26. The Art of the Soluble: Creativity and Originality in Science by Peter B. Medawar
27. The Ants by E. O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler
28. A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
29. Art and Illusion by Ernest H. Gombrich
30. The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
31. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
32. Principia Ethica by George Moore
33. Philosophy and Civilization by John Dewey
34. On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
35. Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
36. The Age of Jackson by Arthur 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 Civilisation in China by Joseph Needham
41. Good-Bye 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 J. Toynbee
46. The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
47. Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson
48. Great Bridge by David McCullough
49. Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson
50. Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
51. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
52. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
53. Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
54. Working by Studs Terkel
55. Darkness 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 by Karl Popper
65. The Art of Memory by Frances A. 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 D. 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. McPherson
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. The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman
89. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
90. The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
91. Shadow and ACT by Ralph Ellison
92. The Power Broker by Robert Caro
93. The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter
94. 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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