Random House Modern Library's "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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  1. 1.
    The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet)
    by Ayn Rand

  2. 2.
    Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
    by L. Ron Hubbard

  3. 5.
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    God of the Machine

  4. 6.
    Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
    by Michael Paxton

  5. 7.
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    Ultimate Resource

  6. 10.
    More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws
    by John R. Lott Jr.

  7. 11.
    Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal
    by Bruce Wiseman

  8. 12.
    Fingerprints of the Gods
    by Graham Hancock

  9. 14.
    Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
    by Milton Friedman

  10. 16.
    The Road to Serfdom
    by F. A. Hayek

  11. 18.
    America's Great Depression
    by Murray N. Rothbard

  12. 19.
    The Roosevelt Myth
    by John T. Flynn

  13. 22.
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    Declaration of Independence

  14. 24.
    Death by Government
    by R. J. Rummel

  15. 25.
    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf

  16. 26.
    The Illustrated Longitude
    by Dava Sobel

  17. 27.
    Ordinarily Sacred (Studies in Religion and Culture)
    by Lynda Sexson

  18. 28.

  19. 29.
    The Art of Memory
    by Frances A. Yates

  20. 30.
    Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
    by John Taylor Gatto

  21. 31.
    The Golden Bough
    by James George Frazer

  22. 33.
    A Modern Prophet: Answers Your Key Questions About Life
    by Harold Klemp

  23. 34.
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    Flute of God
    by Paul Twitchell

  24. 35.
    Real Presences
    by George Steiner

  25. 36.
    Out of Africa (Modern Library of the World's Best Books)
    by Isak Dinesen

  26. 37.
    Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
    by John Berger

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  28. 40.
    Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
    by Jay Stevens

  29. 41.
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    The Texan

  30. 42.
    Homage to Catalonia
    by George Orwell

  31. 43.
    VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
    by William James

  32. 44.
    How to Lie with Statistics
    by Darrell Huff

  33. 46.
    A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
    by John Allen Paulos

  34. 47.
    Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
    by Northrop Frye

  35. 48.
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    Mainspring of Human Progress
    by G. Henry Weaver

  36. 50.
    Men to Match My Mountains
    by Irving Stone

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Comments

youmee400 — 5 years ago

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




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