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

  2. 3.
    The Story of My Life (Signet classics)
    by Helen Keller

  3. 4.
    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    by William James

  4. 5.
    The Souls of Black Folk (Bantam Classics)
    by W.E.B. Du Bois

  5. 6.
    Principia Ethica (Great Books in Philosophy)
    by George Edward Moore

  6. 8.
    Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Daniel Paul Schreber

  7. 9.
    The American Scene (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

  8. 10.
    The Aran Islands (Marlboro Travel)
    by John M. Synge

  9. 11.
    Twenty Years at Hull-House (Signet classics)
    by Jane Addams

  10. 12.

  11. 13.
    Laughter (Green Integer)
    by Henri Bergson

  12. 14.
    Principia Mathematica to *56 (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
    by Alfred North Whitehead

  13. 16.
    On Growth and Form
    by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  14. 17.
    Eminent Victorians (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Lytton Strachey

  15. 19.
    The Education of Henry Adams
    by Henry Adams

  16. 20.
    The Golden Bough
    by James George Frazer

  17. 21.
    Reconstruction in Philosophy
    by John Dewey

  18. 22.
    The Meaning of Relativity
    by Albert Einstein

  19. 23.
    I And Thou
    by Martin Buber

  20. 24.
    Oxford Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary
    by H. W. Fowler

  21. 25.
    Aspects of the Novel
    by E.M. Forster

  22. 26.
    Being and Time
    by Martin Heidegger

  23. 27.
    The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiographies
    by William Butler Yeats

  24. 28.
    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf

  25. 29.
    Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
    by Robert Graves

  26. 30.
    Letters to a Young Poet
    by Rainer Maria Rilke

  27. 31.
    Down and Out in Paris and London
    by George Orwell

  28. 34.
    The Strange Death of Liberal England
    by George Dangerfield

  29. 35.
    Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
    by Isak Dinesen

  30. 36.
    The Importance Of Living
    by Lin Yutang

  31. 38.
    My Early Life: 1874-1904
    by Winston Churchill

  32. 39.
    Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    by T.E. Lawrence

  33. 40.
    Living My Life (Penguin Classics)
    by Emma Goldman

  34. 41.
    A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)
    by G. H. Hardy

  35. 42.
    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
    by James Agee

  36. 44.
    Being and Nothingness
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  37. 45.
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    Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
    by Carlo Levi

  38. 46.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  39. 47.
    The Seven Storey Mountain (Harvest/Hbj Book)
    by Thomas Merton

  40. 48.
    Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
    by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi

  41. 50.
    The Second Sex
    by Simone de Beauvoir

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