Random House Modern Library 100 Best Books of the 20th Century: Non-Fiction (Board's List)

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The Modern Library produced a list of the 100 greatest non-fiction English-language works of the century, but, recognizing they needed to produce a more balanced list than last year’s fiction selections, they employed a different methodology to arrive at the final 100.

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  1. 1.
    The Education of Henry Adams (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Adams

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    VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
    by William James

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    Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Booker T. Washington

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

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  5. 5.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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  6. 6.
    Selected Essays
    by T. S. Eliot

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    Double Helix (Scribner Classics)
    by J. Watson

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    The American Language
    by H.L. Mencken

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  10. 11.
    Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
    by Lewis Thomas

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  11. 12.
    The Frontier in American History
    by Frederick Jackson Turner

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  12. 14.
    Aspects of the Novel
    by E.M. Forster

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  13. 15.
    Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)
    by Shelby Foote

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  14. 16.
    Guns of August
    by BARBARA W. TUCHMAN

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  15. 17.
    The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
    by Isaiah Berlin

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  16. 19.
    Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)
    by James Baldwin

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  17. 20.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein

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  18. 21.
    The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
    by William Strunk Jr.

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  19. 23.
    Principia Mathematica (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
    by Alfred North Whitehead

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  20. 24.
    The Mismeasure of Man
    by Stephen Jay Gould

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    The Art of the Soluble
    by Peter B. Medawar

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    The Ants
    by Bert Hölldobler

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  23. 28.
    A Theory of Justice
    by John Rawls

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    Art and Illusion
    by Ernest H. Gombrich

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

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    The Souls of Black Folk (Norton Critical Editions)
    by W. E. B. Du Bois

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    Principia Ethica
    by G. E. Moore

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    Philosophy and Civilization.
    by John Dewey

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  29. 34.
    On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition
    by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

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  30. 35.
    Ideas & Opinions
    by ALBERT EINSTEIN

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  31. 36.
    The Age of Jackson (Back Bay Books (Series))
    by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.

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  32. 37.
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes

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    Science and Civilization in China
    by Joseph Needham

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  34. 41.
    Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books)
    by Robert Graves

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  35. 42.
    Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
    by George Orwell

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  36. 43.
    The Autobiography of Mark Twain

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  37. 44.
    Children of Crisis
    by Robert Coles

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    Study of History: The Geneses of Civilizations
    by Arnold J. Toynbee

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  39. 46.
    The Affluent Society
    by John Kenneth Galbraith

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  40. 47.
    Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
    by Dean Acheson

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  41. 50.
    Samuel Johnson
    by Walter Jackson Bate

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