The Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All-Time

Robert McCrum's guide to the 100 greatest nonfiction books in English, published in full December 2017. 

1. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
3. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein
4. Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
5. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
6. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
7. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
8. Orientalism by Edward W. Said
9. Dispatches by Michael Herr
10. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
11. North by Seamus Heaney
12. Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
13. The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
14. Rock from the Beginning by Nik Cohn
15. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
16. Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
17. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
18. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
19. The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
20. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
22. A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
23. The Elements of Style by William Jr. Strunk
24. The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
25. The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart
26. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
27. The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark
28. The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
29. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
30. A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David
31. The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis
32. The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper
33. Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock
34. Hiroshima by John Hersey
35. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
36. Black Boy by Richard Wright
37. How to Cook a Wolf by M. F. K. Fisher
38. Enemies of promise by Cyril Connolly
39. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
40. The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
41. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
42. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
43. My Early Life: 1874-1904 by Winston S. Churchill
44. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
45. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
46. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
47. Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed
48. The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
49. The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States {Fourth Edition} by H. L. Mencken
50. Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
51. The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
52. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
53. The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
54. Aubrey's brief lives by John Aubrey
55. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
56. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
57. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
58. Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear
59. Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
60. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
61. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
62. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
63. The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
64. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
65. Roget's International Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
66. London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
67. Household Education by Harriet Martineau
68. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
69. Essays: First Series and Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
70. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
71. American Dictionary of the English Language (1828 Facsimile Edition) by Noah Webster
72. Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
73. Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb
74. Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park
75. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
76. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
77. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
78. Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
79. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah Equiano
80. Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White
81. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
82. The diary of Fanny Burney by Fanny Burney
83. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
84. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
85. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
86. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
87. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
88. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
89. A tour through the whole island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe
90. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
91. The Book of Common Prayer by Episcopal Church
92. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
93. Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial) and The Garden of Cyrus by Thomas Browne
94. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
95. Areopagitica by John Milton
96. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne
97. The First Folio of Shakespeare: The Norton Facsimile by William Shakespeare
98. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
99. The History of the World by Sir Walter Raleigh
100. The Kids Bible: King James Version

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​https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/31/the-100-best-nonfiction-books-of-all-time-the-full-list​