The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction

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  1. 1.
    The Education of Henry Adams
    by Henry Adams

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    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    by William James

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    Up from Slavery: an autobiography
    by Booker T. Washington

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    A Room of One's Own
    by Virgina WOOLF

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    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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    Selected essays, 1917-1932
    by T. S Eliot

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    Double Helix (Scribner Classics)
    by J. Watson

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    Speak, Memory (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    American Language
    by Henry L. Mencken

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    Lives of a Cell, The
    by Lewis Thomas

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    The Frontier In American History
    by Frederick Jackson Turner

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    Black Boy
    by Richard Wright

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    Aspects of the Novel
    by E. M. Forster

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  14. 15.
    The Civil War
    by Shelby Foote

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    Guns of August
    by Barbara Tuchman

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  16. 17.
    The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
    by Isaiah Berlin

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    THE NATURE AND DESTINY OF MAN
    by Reinhold Niebuhr

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    Notes of a Native Son
    by James Baldwin

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  19. 20.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Modern Library)
    by Gertrude Stein

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    The Elements of Style
    by JR. E.B. WHITE WILLIAM STRUNK

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    Principia Mathematica
    by Alfred North Whitehead and Russell Bertrand

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  23. 24.
    The Mismeasure of Man
    by Stephen Jay Gould

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    THE ART OF THE SOLUBLE
    by P.B. Medawar

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    THE ANTS
    by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson

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  26. 28.
    A Theory of Justice
    by John Rawls

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  27. 30.
    The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin History)
    by E.P. Thompson

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    The Souls of Black Folk
    by W. E. B. Du Bois

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    Philosophy and Civilization
    by John Dewey

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  30. 34.
    On Growth and Form (Canto)
    by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

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  31. 35.
    Ideas and Opinions (Condor Books)
    by Albert Einstein

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    The Age of Jackson
    by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

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    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes

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  34. 38.
    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
    by Rebecca West

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    AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
    by W. B. Yeats

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  36. 40.
    Science and Civilisation in China
    by Joseph Needham

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  37. 41.
    Goodbye to All That (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Robert Graves

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  38. 42.
    Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
    by George Orwell

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  39. 43.
    The Autobiography of Mark Twain

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  40. 44.
    Children of Crisis
    by Robert Coles

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  41. 45.
    A Study Of History (Abridgement of Vols. 1-10, 2-vol. set)
    by Arnold J. Toynbee

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  42. 46.
    The Affluent Society (Penguin Business)
    by John Kenneth Galbraith

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    Present at the Creation
    by Dean Acheson

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  44. 48.
    The Great Bridge (Library Edition)
    by David McCullough

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    Patriotic Gore
    by Edmund Wilson

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    SAMUEL JOHNSON
    by Walter Jackson Bate

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Created by Laura Franzen on Dec 06, 2006.
 

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Untitled — 1 year ago

How about adding a book on writing to your list – maybe even mine.

I am a writer and have had fiction books published by Poolbeg. I was asked by County Councils and others to give writing workshops – the demand was so great and the classes so successful that I couldn’t keep up with the demand so I agreed to put it all into a book and Write a Book In a Year was born. You can check it out on the website “www.writeabookinayear.com”

I believe everyone has it in them to write – I am hugely enthusiastic about the positive feelings and happiness writing brings and not least a terrific sense of achievment.

We are all storytellers – I love encouraging people to write and the feed back I get is so wonderful.

If you don’t want to include my book perhaps another book on writing would be great to add – it is such an achievable thing to do.

Thanks for the list, Jacinta