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

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.

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

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1. The Virtue of Selfishness
by Ayn Rand
  
2. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
by L. Ron Hubbard
  
3. Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (The Ayn Rand Library, Volume 6)
by Leonard Peikoff
  
4.
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 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution: Ideas and Resources for Self-Liberation, Monkey Wrenching and Preparedness
by Claire Wolfe
  
5.
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 God of the Machine  
6. Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life : The Companion Book
by Michael Paxton
  
7.
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 Ultimate Resource  
8. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
by Henry Hazlitt
  
9.
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 Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement  
10. More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws
by John R. Lott Jr.
  
11. Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal
by Bruce Wiseman
  
12. Fingerprints of the Gods
by Graham Hancock
  
13.
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 Classical Individualism
by Tibor R. Machan
  
14. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
by Milton Friedman
  
15. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do : The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country
by Peter McWilliams
  
16. The Road to Serfdom
by F. A. Hayek
  
17. Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
by James Bovard
  
18. America's Great Depression
by Murray N. Rothbard
  
19.
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 The Roosevelt Myth
by John T. Flynn
  
20. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)
by Eric Hoffer
  
21. Vindicating the Founders : Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
by Thomas G. West
  
22.
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 Declaration of Independence  
23.
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 Cognitive Therapy & the Emotional Disorders  
24. Death by Government
by R. J. Rummel
  
25. A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
  
26. The Illustrated Longitude
by Dava Sobel
  
27. Ordinarily Sacred (Studies in Religion and Culture)
by Lynda Sexson
  
28. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Vintage International)
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
29. The Art Of Memory
by Frances A. Yates
  
30. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
  
31. The Golden Bough
by James George Frazer
  
32. Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West
by Stephen E. Ambrose
  
33. A Modern Prophet: Answers Your Key Questions About Life
by Harold Klemp
  
34.
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 Flute of God
by Paul Twitchell
  
35. Real Presences
by George Steiner
  
36. Out of Africa (Modern Library)
by Isak Dinesen
  
37. Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
by John Berger
  
38. The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses
by Alan Charles Kors
  
39. Property Matters: How Property Rights Are Under Assault and Why You Should Care
by James V. DeLong
  
40. Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
by Jay Stevens
  
41.
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 The Texan  
42. Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
by George Orwell
  
43. VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
by William James
  
44. How to Lie With Statistics
by Darrell Huff
  
45. But Is It True?: A Citizens Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues
by Aaron Wildavsky
  
46. A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
by John Allen Paulos
  
47. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
by Northrop Frye
  
48.
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 Mainspring of Human Progress
by G. Henry Weaver
  
49. Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties, Revised Edition
by Paul M. Johnson
  
50. Men to Match My Mountains
by Irving Stone
  
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