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. 51.
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    by Thomas S. Kuhn

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  2. 52.
    Survival In Auschwitz
    by Primo Levi

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  3. 53.
    Mere Christianity
    by C. S. Lewis

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  4. 54.
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    The Battle for the Bible
    by Harold Lindsell

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  5. 55.
    Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure
    by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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  6. 56.
    Christianity and Liberalism
    by J. Gresham Machen

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  7. 57.
    Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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  8. 58.
    Doctor Faustus (Everyman's Library)
    by Thomas Mann

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  9. 60.
    Bioethics: A Primer For Christians
    by Gilbert Meilaender

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  10. 61.
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    Christian Dogmatics
    by John Theodore Mueller

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  11. 62.
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    Jesus Rediscovered
    by Malcolm Muggeridge

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  12. 63.
    NIV Bible
    by Zondervan

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  13. 64.
    The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  14. 65.
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    After modernity-- what?: Agenda for theology
    by Thomas C Oden

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  15. 66.
    1984 (Signet Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  16. 67.
    Knowing God
    by J. I. Packer

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  17. 68.
    Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
    by Walker Percy

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  18. 70.
    The Russian Revolution (Vintage)
    by Richard Pipes

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  19. 71.
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    Grey Is The Color Of Hope
    by Irina Ratushinskaya

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  20. 72.
    Modern Art and the Death of a Culture
    by H. R. Rookmaaker

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  21. 73.
    The Mind of the Maker
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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  22. 74.
    Art of Life
    by Edith Schaeffer

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  23. 75.
    The God Who Is There
    by Francis A. Schaeffer

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  24. 77.
    The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)
    by Michael Shaara

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  25. 78.
    Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich
    by William L. Shirer

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  26. 79.
    The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog
    by James W. Sire

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  27. 80.
    The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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  28. 81.
    Race and Culture: A World View
    by Thomas Sowell

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  29. 82.
    The Holiness of God
    by R. C. Sproul

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  30. 83.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  31. 85.
    Basic Christianity
    by John R. W. Stott

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  32. 86.
    The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
    by William Strunk Jr.

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  33. 87.
    The Hiding Place
    by CORRIE TEN BOOM

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  34. 88.
    The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  35. 89.
    National History: 20th Century
    by Igor Dolutsky

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  36. 90.
    The Pursuit of God
    by A. W. Tozer

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  37. 91.
    Guns of August
    by BARBARA W. TUCHMAN

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  38. 92.
    Defense of the Faith
    by Cornelius Van Til

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  39. 93.
    The Book of the Dun Cow
    by Walter Wangerin

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  40. 94.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  41. 95.
    Up from Slavery (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Booker T. Washington

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  42. 96.
    Ideas Have Consequences
    by Richard M. Weaver

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  44. 98.
    Little House on the Prairie (Little House)
    by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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  45. 99.
    Descent into Hell
    by Charles Williams

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  46. 100.
    Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
    by Tom Wolfe

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