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

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The reader’s poll for the best nonfiction published in the English language since 1900 opened on April 29, 1999 and closed on September 30, 1999 with a total of 194,829 votes cast.

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    The Virtue of Selfishness
    by Ayn Rand

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    Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
    by L. Ron Hubbard

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    God of the Machine

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    Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life : The Companion Book
    by Michael Paxton

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    Ultimate Resource

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    More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws
    by John R. Lott Jr.

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    Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal
    by Bruce Wiseman

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    Fingerprints of the Gods
    by Graham Hancock

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    Classical Individualism
    by Tibor R. Machan

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  10. 14.
    Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
    by Milton Friedman

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  11. 16.
    The Road to Serfdom
    by F. A. Hayek

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  12. 18.
    America's Great Depression
    by Murray N. Rothbard

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    The Roosevelt Myth
    by John T. Flynn

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    Declaration of Independence

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  15. 24.
    Death by Government
    by R. J. Rummel

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    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf

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  17. 26.
    The Illustrated Longitude
    by Dava Sobel

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  18. 27.
    Ordinarily Sacred (Studies in Religion and Culture)
    by Lynda Sexson

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    The Art Of Memory
    by Frances A. Yates

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    Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
    by John Taylor Gatto

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    The Golden Bough
    by James George Frazer

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    A Modern Prophet: Answers Your Key Questions About Life
    by Harold Klemp

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    Flute of God
    by Paul Twitchell

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    Real Presences
    by George Steiner

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  26. 36.
    Out of Africa (Modern Library)
    by Isak Dinesen

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    Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
    by John Berger

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    Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
    by Jay Stevens

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    The Texan

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  31. 42.
    Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
    by George Orwell

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  32. 43.
    VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
    by William James

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  33. 44.
    How to Lie With Statistics
    by Darrell Huff

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  34. 46.
    A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
    by John Allen Paulos

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  35. 47.
    Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
    by Northrop Frye

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    Mainspring of Human Progress
    by G. Henry Weaver

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  37. 50.
    Men to Match My Mountains
    by Irving Stone

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Comments

youmee400 — 1 year ago

One question how did the diary of Anne Frank not make it on this list??