The Modern Library's "100 Best Non-Fiction List"

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  1. 1.
    The Education of Henry Adams
    by Henry Adams
  2. 2.
    The Varieties of Religious Experience
    by William James
  3. 3.
    Up From Slavery
    by Booker T. Washington
  4. 4.
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    A Room of One's Own
    by Virginia Woolf
  5. 5.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  6. 6.
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    Selected Essays, 1917-1932
    by T. S. Eliot
  8. 8.
    Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  9. 9.
    The American Language
    by H.L. Mencken
  11. 11.
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    Lives of a Cell, The
    by Lewis Thomas
  12. 12.
    The Frontier in American History
    by Frederick Jackson Turner
  13. 13.
    BLACK BOY
    by Richard Wright
  14. 14.
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    ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL
    by E. M. Forster
  15. 15.
    The Civil War (American Heritage Books)
    by Bruce Catton
  16. 16.
    The Guns of August
    by Barbara W. Tuchman
  17. 17.
    The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
    by Isaiah Berlin
  19. 19.
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    Notes of a Native Son
    by James Baldwin
  20. 20.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein
  21. 21.
    Elements of Style
    by Wendy Wasserstein
  22. 22.
    ?
  23. 23.
    Principia Mathematica to *56 (Cambridge Mathematical Library)
    by Alfred North Whitehead
  24. 24.
    The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
    by Stephen Jay Gould
  26. 26.
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    The art of the soluble
    by P. B Medawar
  27. 27.
    ?
    THE ANTS
    by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson
  28. 28.
    A Theory of Justice: Original Edition
    by John Rawls
  30. 30.
    The Making of the English Working Class
    by E. P. Thompson
  31. 31.
    The Souls of Black Folk
    by W. E. B. Du Bois
  32. 32.
    Principia Ethica
    by G. E. Moore
  33. 33.
    Philosophy and Civilization
    by John Dewey
  34. 34.
    On Growth and Form
    by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  35. 35.
    Ideas And Opinions
    by Albert Einstein
  36. 36.
    The Age of Jackson (Back Bay Books (Series))
    by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
  37. 37.
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes
  39. 39.
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    AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
    by W. B. Yeats
  41. 41.
    Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin 2)
    by Robert Graves
  42. 42.
    Homage to Catalonia
    by George Orwell
  43. 43.
    The Autobiography of Mark Twain
    by Edited By Charles Neider
  44. 44.
    Children of Crisis
    by Robert Coles
  45. 45.
    A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI
    by Arnold J. Toynbee
  46. 46.
    The Affluent Society
    by John Kenneth Galbraith
  47. 47.
    Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
    by Dean Acheson
  50. 50.
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    SAMUEL JOHNSON
    by Walter Jackson Bate

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bah

Duplicate — 4 years ago

Same list here.

Oct 14, 12:01PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

wjvann

Untitled — 4 years ago

  1. should be “Darkness Visible” by William Styron, not William Golding. And #100 should be “Melbourne” by Lord David Cecil, not Philip Ziegler.
May 12, 05:40PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

catielied11

Untitled — 5 years ago

America…..the centre of the universe!

Oct 06, 09:52PM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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