Lists of Bests: Random House Modern Library's "100 Best Books of the 20th Century: Non-Fiction (Board's List)" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/18 The Modern Library produced a list of the 100 greatest non-fiction English-language works of the century, but, recognizing they needed to produce a more balanced list than last year's fiction selections, they employed a different methodology to arrive at the final 100. 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Washington</div> A Room of One's Own http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4156 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4156"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XOShC0qNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Woolf</div> Silent Spring http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DBaOLN24L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> Selected Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64960 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64960"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LNtKl-yGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. S. Eliot</div> Double Helix (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64961 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64961"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GCMKT062L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. Watson</div> Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18663 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18663"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679723390.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> The American Language http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64962 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64962"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aqIuC2ADL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.L. Mencken</div> The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31327 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31327"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/716MJC1HJ7L._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Maynard Keynes</div> Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2532 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2532"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZWR1qieCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Thomas</div> The Frontier in American History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64963 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64963"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486291677.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Jackson Turner</div> Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1280 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1280"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41f1eswuvFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard A. 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