All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books

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Released in August 2011, TIME Magazine’s list of 100 best nonfiction books published since 1923.

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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.
    Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
    by Art Spiegelman

  8. 8.
    A Moveable Feast
    by Ernest Hemingway

  9. 9.
    Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)
    by James Baldwin

  10. 10.

  11. 11.
    Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  12. 13.

  13. 14.
    The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940
    by William Manchester

  14. 15.
    The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
    by Robert A. Caro

  15. 16.
    Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
    by Milton Friedman

  16. 17.
    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    by Eric Schlosser

  17. 18.
    The General Theory Of Employment Interest And Money (1936)
    by John Maynard Keynes

  18. 19.
    How To Win Friends and Influence People
    by Dale Carnegie

  19. 21.
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    Unsafe at Any Speed
    by Ralph Nader

  20. 23.
    The American Cinema: Directors And Directions 1929-1968
    by Andrew Sarris

  21. 24.
    A Child of the Century
    by Ben Hecht

  22. 25.
    Within the Context of No Context
    by George W.S. Trow

  23. 26.
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    Mystery Train
    by Greil Marcus

  24. 27.
    The Story of Art
    by E.H. Gombrich

  25. 28.
    Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
    by Susan Sontag

  26. 29.
    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf

  27. 30.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)
    by Joan Didion

  28. 31.
    A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
    by David Foster Wallace

  29. 32.
    How to Cook a Wolf
    by M. F. K. Fisher

  30. 33.
    Mastering the Art of French Cooking (2 Volume Set)
    by Julia Child

  31. 34.
    The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
    by Michael Pollan

  32. 37.
    The Joy of Sex: The Ultimate Revised Edition
    by Alex Comfort

  33. 38.
    Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
    by Alfred C. Kinsey

  34. 39.
    Our Bodies, Our Selves
    by Boston Women's Health Book Collective

  35. 40.
    The Best and the Brightest
    by David Halberstam

  36. 43.
    The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
    by Robert Hughes

  37. 44.
    The Gnostic Gospels
    by Elaine Pagels

  38. 46.
    A People's History of the United States (P.S.)
    by Howard Zinn

  39. 47.
    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
    by William L. Shirer

  40. 48.
    The Closing of the American Mind
    by Allan Bloom

  41. 49.
    The End of History and the Last Man
    by Francis Fukuyama

  42. 50.
    Goedel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid
    by Douglas Hofstadter

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