The Modern Library's "100 Best Non-Fiction List"

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  1. 1.
    The Education of Henry Adams
    by Henry Adams

  2. 2.
    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    by William James

  3. 3.
    Up From Slavery
    by Booker T. Washington

  4. 4.
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    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf

  5. 5.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

  6. 6.
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    Selected Essays, 1917-1932
    by T. S. Eliot

  7. 8.
    Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  8. 11.
    The Lives of a Cell
    by Lewis Thomas

  9. 12.
    The Frontier in American History
    by Frederick Jackson Turner

  10. 13.
    BLACK BOY
    by Richard Wright

  11. 14.
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    ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL
    by E. M. Forster

  12. 15.
    The Civil War (American Heritage Books)
    by Bruce Catton

  13. 17.
    The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
    by Isaiah Berlin

  14. 19.
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    Notes of a Native Son
    by James Baldwin

  15. 20.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein

  16. 21.
    Elements of Style
    by Wendy Wasserstein

  17. 23.
    Principia Mathematica to *56 (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
    by Alfred North Whitehead

  18. 24.
    The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
    by Stephen Jay Gould

  19. 26.
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    The art of the soluble
    by P. B Medawar

  20. 27.
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    THE ANTS
    by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson

  21. 28.
    A Theory of Justice: Original Edition
    by John Rawls

  22. 30.
    The Making of the English Working Class
    by E. P. Thompson

  23. 31.
    The Souls of Black Folk
    by W. E. B. Du Bois

  24. 32.
    Principia Ethica
    by G. E. Moore

  25. 33.
    Philosophy and Civilization
    by John Dewey

  26. 34.
    On Growth and Form
    by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  27. 35.
    Ideas And Opinions
    by Albert Einstein

  28. 36.
    The Age of Jackson (Back Bay Books (Series))
    by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.

  29. 37.
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes

  30. 39.
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    AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
    by W. B. Yeats

  31. 41.
    Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin 2)
    by Robert Graves

  32. 42.
    Homage to Catalonia
    by George Orwell

  33. 43.
    The Autobiography of Mark Twain
    by Edited By Charles Neider

  34. 44.
    Children of Crisis
    by Robert Coles

  35. 45.
    A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI
    by Arnold J. Toynbee

  36. 46.
    The Affluent Society
    by John Kenneth Galbraith

  37. 47.
    Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
    by Dean Acheson

  38. 50.
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    SAMUEL JOHNSON
    by Walter Jackson Bate

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Comments

bah

Duplicate — 5 years ago

Same list here.


Untitled — 6 years ago

  1. should be “Darkness Visible” by William Styron, not William Golding. And #100 should be “Melbourne” by Lord David Cecil, not Philip Ziegler.

Untitled — 6 years ago

America…..the centre of the universe!




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