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

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.

(found at: http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnonfiction.html)

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1. The Education of Henry Adams (Oxford World's Classics)
by Henry Adams
  
2. VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
by William James
  
3. Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Booker T. Washington
  
4. A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
  
5. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
6. Selected Essays
by T. S. Eliot
  
7. Double Helix (Scribner Classics)
by J. Watson
  
8. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Vintage International)
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
9. The American Language
by H.L. Mencken
  
10. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series)
by John Maynard Keynes
  
11. Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
  
12. The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson Turner
  
13. Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
  
14. Aspects of the Novel
by E.M. Forster
  
15. Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)
by Shelby Foote
  
16. Guns of August
by BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
  
17. The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
by Isaiah Berlin
  
18. The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature (Library of Theological Ethics) 2 Volume Set
by Reinhold Niebuhr
  
19. Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)
by James Baldwin
  
20. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
  
21. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
by William Strunk Jr.
  
22. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Black and African-American Studies) Volume 1
by Gunnar Myrdal
  
23. Principia Mathematica (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
by Alfred North Whitehead
  
24. The Mismeasure of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould
  
25. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Galaxy Books)
by Meyer H. Abrams
  
26.
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 The Art of the Soluble
by Peter B. Medawar
  
27. The Ants
by Bert Hölldobler
  
28. A Theory of Justice
by John Rawls
  
29.
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 Art and Illusion
by Ernest H. Gombrich
  
30.
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 The Making of the English Working Class
by E. P. Thompson
  
31. The Souls of Black Folk (Norton Critical Editions)
by W. E. B. Du Bois
  
32. Principia Ethica
by G. E. Moore
  
33.
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 Philosophy and Civilization.
by John Dewey
  
34. On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition
by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  
35. Ideas & Opinions
by ALBERT EINSTEIN
  
36. The Age of Jackson (Back Bay Books (Series))
by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
  
37. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
  
38. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Rebecca West
  
39. Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume III (Collected Works of W B Yeats)
by William Butler Yeats
  
40.
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 Science and Civilization in China
by Joseph Needham
  
41. Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books)
by Robert Graves
  
42. Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
by George Orwell
  
43.
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 The Autobiography of Mark Twain  
44. Children of Crisis
by Robert Coles
  
45.
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 Study of History: The Geneses of Civilizations
by Arnold J. Toynbee
  
46. The Affluent Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith
  
47. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
by Dean Acheson
  
48. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough
  
49. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
by Edmund Wilson
  
50. Samuel Johnson
by Walter Jackson Bate
  
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