Time Magazine's "100 Best English-language Non-Fiction Books (1923-present)"

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Time Magazine picked the 100 best and most influential written in English since 1923, the beginning of TIME magazine. (In order of category/alphabetical).

Fiction: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/1977-100-best-english-language-novels-1923-present

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  1. 1.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein
  2. 2.
    Black Boy (P.S.)
    by Richard Wright
  3. 3.
    Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
    by Barack Obama
  4. 4.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers
  5. 5.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou
  6. 6.
    Manchild in the Promised Land
    by Claude Brown
  7. 7.
    The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
    by Art Spiegelman
  8. 8.
    A Moveable Feast
    by Ernest Hemingway
  9. 9.
    Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)
    by James Baldwin
  11. 11.
    Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  13. 13.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    by Alex Haley
  14. 14.
  15. 15.
    The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
    by Robert A. Caro
  16. 16.
    Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
    by Milton Friedman
  17. 17.
    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    by Eric Schlosser
  18. 18.
    The General Theory Of Employment Interest And Money (1936)
    by John Maynard Keynes
  19. 19.
    How To Win Friends and Influence People
    by Dale Carnegie
  21. 21.
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    Unsafe at Any Speed
    by Ralph Nader
  22. 22.
    What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook
    by Richard N. Bolles
  23. 23.
    The American Cinema: Directors And Directions 1929-1968
    by Andrew Sarris
  24. 24.
    A Child of the Century
    by Ben Hecht
  25. 25.
    Within the Context of No Context
    by George W.S. Trow
  27. 27.
    The Story of Art
    by E. H. Gombrich
  28. 28.
    Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
    by Susan Sontag
  29. 29.
    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf
  30. 30.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)
    by Joan Didion
  31. 31.
    A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
    by David Foster Wallace
  32. 32.
    How to Cook a Wolf
    by M. F. K. Fisher
  33. 33.
    Mastering the art of French Cooking 50th Anniversary
    by Julia Child
  34. 34.
    The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
    by Michael Pollan
  36. 36.
    Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 8th Edition
    by Benjamin Spock
  37. 37.
    The Joy of Sex: The Ultimate Revised Edition
    by Alex Comfort
  38. 38.
    Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
    by Alfred C. Kinsey
  39. 39.
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    Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
    by alfred kinsey
  40. 40.
    Our Bodies, Our Selves
    by Boston Women's Health Book Collective
  41. 41.
    The Best and the Brightest
    by David Halberstam
  44. 44.
    The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
    by Robert Hughes
  45. 45.
    The Gnostic Gospels
    by Elaine Pagels
  47. 47.
    A People's History of the United States
    by Howard Zinn
  48. 48.
    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
    by William L. Shirer
  49. 49.
    The Closing of the American Mind
    by Allan Bloom
  50. 50.
    The End of History and the Last Man
    by Francis Fukuyama

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