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