WORLD Magazine's "The century's top 100 books"

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From our perspective, with our bias toward English-language books, represented here are 100 of the top books of the century. Authors are listed in alphabetical order, and only one title per author is listed, though the author’s other books may be equally worthy of inclusion. From http://www.worldmag.com/articles/3366

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  1. 2.
    The Origins of Totalitarianism
    by Hannah Arendt

  2. 3.

  3. 4.
    Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion
    by P. T. Bauer

  4. 5.
    DARWINS BLACK BOX: THE BIOCHEMICAL CHALLENGE TO EVOLUTION
    by Michael J. Behe

  5. 7.
    Systematic Theology
    by Louis Berkhof

  6. 8.
    The Closing of the American Mind
    by Allan Bloom

  7. 9.
    Romans: God and History : Romans 9-11 (Expositional Commentary)
    by James Montgomery Boice

  8. 10.
    The Cost of Discipleship
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  9. 11.
    Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  10. 12.

  11. 13.
    God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
    by William F. Buckley

  12. 14.

  13. 15.
    Witness
    by Whittaker Chambers

  14. 16.
    Orthodoxy
    by G. K. Chesterton

  15. 17.
    The Second World War (Six Volume Boxed Set)
    by Winston S. Churchill

  16. 18.
    Born Again
    by Charles W. Colson

  17. 19.
    The Great Terror: A Reassessment
    by Robert Conquest

  18. 20.
    The God That Failed
    by Arthur Koestler

  19. 22.
    The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
    by Hernando De Soto

  20. 23.
    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard

  21. 24.
    Collected Poems 1909-1962
    by T.S. Eliot

  22. 25.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  23. 26.
    The Humiliation of the Word
    by Mr. Jacques Ellul

  24. 27.
    Silence
    by Shusaku Endo

  25. 28.

  26. 29.
    Collected Stories of William Faulkner
    by William Faulkner

  27. 30.
    The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction
    by Sinclair B. Ferguson

  28. 31.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  29. 32.
    The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)
    by Shelby Foote

  30. 33.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  31. 34.
    Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
    by Milton Friedman

  32. 36.
    Fundamentals, The

  33. 37.
    Wealth and Poverty (ICS Series in Self-Governance)
    by George Gilder

  34. 38.
    The Cypresses Believe in God
    by Jose Maria Gironella

  35. 39.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  36. 40.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

  37. 41.
    The Road to Serfdom: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
    by F. A. Hayek

  38. 42.
    God, Revelation and Authority (6 Volume Set)
    by Carl F. H. Henry

  39. 43.
    In the Face of God
    by Michael Scott Horton

  40. 44.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  41. 46.
    Darwin on Trial
    by Phillip E. Johnson

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    Psychological seduction: The failure of modern psychology
    by William Kilpatrick

  43. 48.
    The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
    by Russell Kirk

  44. 50.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

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