National Review 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century

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Earlier this year, Random House announced that it would release a list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century. The publisher had enjoyed success (and controversy) with its 100 best novels; now it would do this. Here at National Review, we decided to get a jump on them by forming our own panel and offering our own list. Under the leadership of our reporter John J. Miller, we have done so. We have used a methodology that approaches the scientific. But-certainly beyond, say, the first 40 books-the fact of the books’ presence on the list is far more important than their rankings. We offer a comment from a panelist after many of the books; but the panel overall, not the individual quoted, is responsible for the ranking. So, here is our list, for your enjoyment, mortification, and stimulation.

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  1. 2.
    The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

  2. 3.
    Homage to Catalonia
    by George Orwell

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  4. 7.
    The Abolition of Man
    by C. S. Lewis

  5. 8.
    The Revolt of the Masses
    by José Ortega y Gasset

  6. 9.
    Constitution of Liberty (Routledge Classics)
    by Hayek. F. A.

  7. 10.
    Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
    by Milton Friedman

  8. 12.
    Rationalism in Politics and other essays
    by Michael Oakeshott

  9. 13.
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
    by Joseph Schumpeter

  10. 15.

  11. 16.
    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Penguin Classics)
    by Rebecca West

  12. 17.

  13. 18.
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    On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum: Centissimus Annus
    by Pope John Paul II

  14. 20.
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  15. 21.
    The Great Terror: A Reassessment
    by Robert Conquest

  16. 22.
    Chronicles of Wasted Time
    by Malcolm Muggeridge

  17. 23.

  18. 24.
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    Witness

  19. 25.
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    by Thomas S. Kuhn

  20. 26.
    Mere Christianity
    by C. S. Lewis

  21. 27.
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    Quest for Community (Galaxy Books)
    by Robert A. Nisbet

  22. 28.
    Encyclopedia Britannica

  23. 29.
    Up in the Old Hotel
    by Joseph Mitchell

  24. 30.
    The Everlasting Man (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)
    by G. K. Chesterton

  25. 31.
    Orthodoxy
    by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  26. 32.
    The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
    by Lionel Trilling

  27. 35.
    Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
    by Tom Wolfe

  28. 36.
    The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
    by Albert Camus

  29. 37.
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    The Unheavenly City: the Nature and Future of Our Urban Crisis
    by Edward C Banfield

  30. 38.
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    by Sigmund, Freud

  31. 39.
    The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    by Jane Jacobs

  32. 40.
    The End of History and the Last Man
    by Francis Fukuyama

  33. 41.
    Joy of Cooking
    by Irma S. Rombauer

  34. 42.
    The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.
    by Richard Hofstadter

  35. 44.
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    God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom"
    by William F., Jr. Buckley

  36. 45.
    Selected Essays
    by T S Eliot

  37. 46.
    Ideas Have Consequences
    by Richard M. Weaver

  38. 47.
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  39. 48.
    The Closing of the American Mind
    by Allan Bloom

  40. 49.
    Ethnic America: A History
    by Thomas Sowell

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