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. 51.
    Autobiography of Malcolm X
    by Malcolm X

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  2. 52.
    The Right Stuff
    by Tom Wolfe

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  3. 53.
    Eminent Victorians
    by LYTTON STRACHEY

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  4. 55.
    Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
    by William Styron

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  5. 57.
    The Second World War (Six Volume Boxed Set)
    by Winston S. Churchill

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  6. 58.
    Out of Africa (Modern Library)
    by Isak Dinesen

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  7. 59.
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    Jefferson & His Time (History United States)
    by Dumas Malone

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  8. 60.
    In the American Grain (New Directions Paperbook)
    by William Carlos Williams

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  9. 63.
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    The Sweet Science
    by A. J. Liebling

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  10. 64.
    Open Society and Its Enemies (Volume 1)
    by Karl Raimund Popper

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  11. 65.
    The Art Of Memory
    by Frances A. Yates

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  12. 66.
    Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
    by R.H. Tawney

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  13. 67.
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    A Preface to Morals (Social and Moral Thought Series)
    by Walter Lippmann

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  14. 68.
    The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution
    by Jonathan D. Spence

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  15. 69.
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    by Thomas S. Kuhn

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  16. 70.
    The Strange Career of Jim Crow
    by C. Vann Woodward

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  17. 71.
    The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
    by William McNeill

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  18. 72.
    The Gnostic Gospels
    by Elaine Pagels

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  19. 73.
    James Joyce (Oxford Lives)
    by Richard Ellmann

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  20. 74.
    Florence Nightingale: 1820-1910 (Biography & Memoirs)
    by Cecil Woodham-Smith

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  21. 75.
    The Great War and Modern Memory
    by Paul Fussell

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  22. 77.
    Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
    by JAMES M. MCPHERSON

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  23. 78.
    Why We Can't Wait (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Jr., Dr. Martin Luther King

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  24. 79.
    The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Edmund Morris

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  25. 82.
    The Strange Death of Liberal England
    by George Dangerfield

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  26. 83.
    Vermeer
    by Lawrence Gowing

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  28. 85.
    West with the Night
    by Beryl Markham

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  29. 86.
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    This Boy’s Life
    by Tobias Wolfe

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  30. 87.
    A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)
    by G. H. Hardy

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  31. 89.
    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard

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  32. 90.
    The Golden Bough
    by James George Frazer

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  33. 91.
    Shadow and Act
    by Ralph Ellison

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  34. 92.
    The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
    by Robert A. Caro

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  35. 93.
    The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it
    by Richard Hofstadter

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  36. 94.
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    Contours of American History
    by William Appleman Williams

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  37. 95.
    The Promise Of American Life
    by Herbert, Croly

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  38. 96.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  39. 97.
    The Journalist and the Murderer
    by Janet Malcolm

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  40. 98.
    The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context)
    by Ian Hacking

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  42. 100.
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    Melbourne (Power & Personality Series.)
    by Lord David Cecil

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