Random House Modern Library's "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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  2. 2.
    VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
    by William James
  3. 3.
    Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Booker T. Washington
  4. 4.
    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf
  5. 5.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  6. 6.
    Selected Essays
    by T. S. Eliot
  7. 7.
    Double Helix (Scribner Classics)
    by J. Watson
  8. 8.
    Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  9. 9.
    The American Language
    by H.L. Mencken
  11. 11.
    Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
    by Lewis Thomas
  12. 12.
    The Frontier in American History
    by Frederick Jackson Turner
  14. 14.
    Aspects of the Novel
    by E.M. Forster
  15. 15.
    Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)
    by Shelby Foote
  16. 16.
    The Guns of August
    by Barbara W. Tuchman
  17. 17.
    The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
    by Isaiah Berlin
  19. 19.
    Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)
    by James Baldwin
  20. 20.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein
  21. 21.
    The Elements of Style (4th Edition)
    by William Strunk
  23. 23.
    Principia Mathematica to *56 (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
    by Alfred North Whitehead
  24. 24.
    The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
    by Stephen Jay Gould
  26. 26.
    ?
    The Art of the Soluble
    by Peter B. Medawar
  27. 27.
    The Ants
    by Bert Holldobler
  28. 28.
    A Theory of Justice
    by John Rawls
  29. 29.
    ?
    Art and Illusion
    by Ernest H. Gombrich
  30. 30.
    ?
    The Making of the English Working Class
    by E. P. Thompson
  31. 31.
    The Souls of Black Folk (Norton Critical Editions)
    by W. E. B. Du Bois
  32. 32.
    Principia Ethica
    by G. E. Moore
  33. 33.
    ?
    Philosophy and Civilization.
    by John Dewey
  34. 34.
    On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition
    by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  35. 35.
    Ideas & Opinions
    by ALBERT EINSTEIN
  36. 36.
    The Age of Jackson (Back Bay Books (Series))
    by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
  37. 37.
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes
  40. 40.
    ?
    Science and Civilization in China
    by Joseph Needham
  41. 41.
    Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
    by Robert Graves
  42. 42.
    Homage to Catalonia
    by George Orwell
  43. 43.
    The Autobiography of Mark Twain

  44. 44.
    Children of Crisis
    by Robert Coles
  45. 45.
    ?
    Study of History: The Geneses of Civilizations
    by Arnold J. Toynbee
  46. 46.
    The Affluent Society
    by John Kenneth Galbraith
  47. 47.
    Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
    by Dean Acheson
  50. 50.
    Samuel Johnson
    by W. Jackson Bate

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