The Modern Library's 100 Best Non-Fiction List

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  1. 1.
    The Education of Henry Adams
    by Henry Adams

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    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    by William James

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  3. 3.
    Up From Slavery
    by Booker T. Washington

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    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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    Selected Essays, 1917-1932
    by T. S. Eliot

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  7. 8.
    Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  8. 9.
    The American Language
    by H.L. Mencken

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    The General Theory of Employment, Interest And Money
    by John Maynard Keynes

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    Lives of a Cell, The
    by Lewis Thomas

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  11. 12.
    The Frontier in American History
    by Frederick Jackson Turner

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  12. 13.
    BLACK BOY
    by Richard Wright

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    ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL
    by E. M. Forster

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  14. 15.
    The Civil War (American Heritage Books)
    by Bruce Catton

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  15. 16.
    The Guns of August
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

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  16. 17.
    The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
    by Isaiah Berlin

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    Notes of a Native Son
    by James Baldwin

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  18. 20.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein

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  19. 21.
    Elements of Style
    by Wendy Wasserstein

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  21. 23.
    Principia Mathematica (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
    by Alfred North Whitehead

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  22. 24.
    The Mismeasure of Man
    by Stephen Jay Gould

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    The art of the soluble
    by P. B Medawar

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    THE ANTS
    by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson

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  25. 28.
    A Theory of Justice: Original Edition
    by John Rawls

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  26. 30.
    Making of the English Working Class
    by E.P. Thompson

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  27. 31.
    The Souls of Black Folk
    by W. E. B. Du Bois

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  28. 32.
    Principia Ethica
    by G. E. Moore

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  29. 33.
    Philosophy and Civilization
    by John Dewey

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  30. 34.
    On Growth and Form (Canto)
    by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

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  31. 35.
    Ideas And Opinions
    by Albert Einstein

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  32. 36.
    The Age of Jackson (Back Bay Books (Series))
    by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.

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  33. 37.
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes

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    AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
    by W. B. Yeats

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  35. 40.
    Science and Civilisation in China
    by H. T. Huang

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  36. 41.
    Goodbye to All That (Essential.penguin)
    by Robert Graves

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  37. 42.
    Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
    by George Orwell

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  38. 43.
    The Autobiography of Mark Twain
    by Edited By Charles Neider

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  39. 44.
    Children of Crisis
    by Robert Coles

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  40. 45.
    National History: 20th Century
    by Igor Dolutsky

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  41. 46.
    The Affluent Society
    by John Kenneth Galbraith

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  42. 47.
    Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
    by Dean Acheson

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    SAMUEL JOHNSON
    by Walter Jackson Bate

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Comments

Duplicate — 38 weeks ago

Same list here.


Untitled — 1 year ago

55 should be “Darkness Visible” by William Styron, not William Golding. And #100 should be “Melbourne” by Lord David Cecil, not Philip Ziegler.


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Sydney

Untitled — 1 year ago

America…..the centre of the universe!