Amazon.com's "Best Books of the Century: Nonfiction"

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Top ten books of the first decade of the 20th century, ranked from 1 to 10, followed by the top ten of 1910s, and so on until the top ten of 1990s, ranked from 1 to 10.

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  1. 1.
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud
  3. 3.
    The Story of My Life (Signet classics)
    by Helen Keller
  4. 4.
    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    by William James
  5. 5.
    The Souls of Black Folk (Bantam Classics)
    by W.E.B. Du Bois
  6. 6.
    Principia Ethica (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by George Edward Moore
  8. 8.
    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Daniel Paul Schreber
  9. 9.
    The American Scene (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  10. 10.
    The Aran Islands (Marlboro Travel)
    by John M. Synge
  11. 11.
    Twenty Years at Hull-House (Signet classics)
    by Jane Addams
  12. 12.
  13. 13.
    Laughter (Green Integer)
    by Henri Bergson
  14. 14.
    Principia Mathematica to *56 (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
    by Alfred North Whitehead
  16. 16.
    On Growth and Form
    by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  17. 17.
    Eminent Victorians (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Lytton Strachey
  19. 19.
    The Education of Henry Adams
    by Henry Adams
  20. 20.
    The Golden Bough
    by James George Frazer
  21. 21.
    Reconstruction in Philosophy
    by John Dewey
  22. 22.
    The Meaning of Relativity
    by Albert Einstein
  23. 23.
    I And Thou
    by Martin Buber
  24. 24.
    Oxford Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary
    by H. W. Fowler
  25. 25.
    Aspects of the Novel
    by E.M. Forster
  26. 26.
    Being and Time
    by Martin Heidegger
  27. 27.
    The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiographies
    by William Butler Yeats
  28. 28.
    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf
  29. 29.
    Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
    by Robert Graves
  30. 30.
    Letters to a Young Poet
    by Rainer Maria Rilke
  31. 31.
    Down and Out in Paris and London
    by George Orwell
  34. 34.
    The Strange Death of Liberal England
    by George Dangerfield
  35. 35.
    Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
    by Isak Dinesen
  36. 36.
    The Importance Of Living
    by Lin Yutang
  38. 38.
    My Early Life: 1874-1904
    by Winston Churchill
  39. 39.
    Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    by T.E. Lawrence
  40. 40.
    Living My Life (Penguin Classics)
    by Emma Goldman
  41. 41.
    A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)
    by G. H. Hardy
  42. 42.
    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
    by James Agee
  44. 44.
    Being and Nothingness
    by Jean-Paul Sartre
  45. 45.
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    Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
    by Carlo Levi
  46. 46.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank
  47. 47.
    The Seven Storey Mountain (Harvest/Hbj Book)
    by Thomas Merton
  48. 48.
    Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
    by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
  50. 50.
    The Second Sex
    by Simone de Beauvoir

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