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

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. The Education of Henry Adams (Oxford World's Classics)
by Henry Adams
 
2. The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
 
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The Unheavenly City: The Nature and the Future of Our Urban Crisis
by Edward C Banfield
 
4.
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Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion
by P. T. Bauer
 
5. DARWINS BLACK BOX: THE BIOCHEMICAL CHALLENGE TO EVOLUTION
by Michael J. Behe
 
6. Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories  
7. Systematic Theology
by Louis Berkhof
 
8. The Closing of the American Mind
by Allan Bloom
 
9. Romans: God and History : Romans 9-11 (Expositional Commentary)
by James Montgomery Boice
 
10. The Cost of Discipleship
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
11. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186)
by Jorge Luis Borges
 
12. Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
by Robert H. Bork
 
13. God and Man at Yale
by William F. Buckley
 
14. My Utmost for His Highest: An Updated Edition in Today's Language
by Oswald Chambers
 
15. Witness
by Whittaker Chambers
 
16. Orthodoxy
by G. K. Chesterton
 
17. The Second World War (Six Volume Boxed Set)
by Winston S. Churchill
 
18. Born Again
by Charles W. Colson
 
19. The Great Terror: A Reassessment
by Robert Conquest
 
20. The God That Failed  
21. The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory)
by William A. Dembski
 
22. The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
by Hernando De Soto
 
23. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
 
24. T.S. Eliot Collected Poems 1909-1962 (1st U.S. Edition)
by T.S. Eliot
 
25. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
 
26. The Humiliation of the Word
by Jacques Ellul
 
27. Silence
by Shusaku Endo
 
28. The Theme Is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition
by M. Stanton Evans
 
29. Collected Stories
by William Faulkner
 
30. Christian Life
by Sinclair B. Ferguson
 
31. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
32. The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)
by Shelby Foote
 
33. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
 
34. Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
by Milton Friedman
 
35. The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
by Robert Frost
 
36.
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The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth  
37. Wealth and Poverty (Ics Series in Self-Governance)
by George Gilder
 
38. The Cypresses Believe in God: Spain on the Eve of Civil War
by Jose Maria Gironella
 
39. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
 
40. The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Graham Greene
 
41. The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
by F. A. Hayek
 
42.
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God, Revelation and Authority
by Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry
 
43. In the Face of God
by Michael Scott Horton
 
44. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
 
45. Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties, Revised Edition
by Paul M. Johnson
 
46. Darwin on Trial
by Phillip E. Johnson
 
47.
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Psychological seduction: The failure of modern psychology
by William Kilpatrick
 
48. The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
by Russell Kirk
 
49. The Quest for Holiness: A Biblical, Historical and Systematic Investigation
by Adolf Koberle
 
50. Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
 
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