Lists of Bests: Random House Modern Library's "100 Best Books of the 20th Century: Non-Fiction (Reader's List)" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/20 The reader's poll for the best nonfiction published in the English language since 1900 opened on April 29, 1999 and closed on September 30, 1999 with a total of 194,829 votes cast. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:51:55 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13579 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13579"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K44HoSo9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27288 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27288"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/088404632X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V66862712_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Ron Hubbard</div> Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (The Ayn Rand Library, Volume 6) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13995 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13995"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V0LH32UWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Peikoff</div> 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution: Ideas and Resources for Self-Liberation, Monkey Wrenching and Preparedness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62854 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claire Wolfe</div> God of the Machine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65022 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65023 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65023"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WDJQ92V8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Paxton</div> Ultimate Resource http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65024 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14988 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14988"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uSgsELZvL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Hazlitt</div> Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65025 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5006 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5006"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416KT5ZM0GL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John R. Lott Jr.</div> Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65026 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65026"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AAZ7TFQ1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bruce Wiseman</div> Fingerprints of the Gods http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15035 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15035"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/715N3MMHKCL._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Hancock</div> Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65027 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65027"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41C2kv-8FHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tibor R. Machan</div> Free to Choose: A Personal Statement http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4110 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4110"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-JlKqsXNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milton Friedman</div> Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do : The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28038 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28038"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0931580587.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter McWilliams</div> The Road to Serfdom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65028 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65028"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VV16QF3FL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. A. Hayek</div> Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64520 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64520"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T95VD0J8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Bovard</div> America's Great Depression http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65029 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65029"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QY96Z005L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Murray N. Rothbard</div> The Roosevelt Myth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65030 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65030"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416VTEHfQfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John T. Flynn</div> The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/617 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/617"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VMQjVia1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Hoffer</div> Vindicating the Founders : Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65031 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65031"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0847685160.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas G. West</div> Declaration of Independence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65032 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Cognitive Therapy &amp; the Emotional Disorders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65033 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Death by Government http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65034 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65034"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414AJE50M8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. J. Rummel</div> A Room of One's Own http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4156 <div id="position">25</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> The Illustrated Longitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65035 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65035"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802713440.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dava Sobel</div> Ordinarily Sacred (Studies in Religion and Culture) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65036 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65036"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5181WCYAE7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynda Sexson</div> Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18663 <div id="position">28</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 Art of Memory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64992 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64992"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bQd4qimBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances A. Yates</div> Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26631 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26631"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qw8BpfDZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Taylor Gatto</div> The Golden Bough http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19329 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19329"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uXfSQaaML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James George Frazer</div> Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65037 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65037"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743507835.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen E. Ambrose</div> A Modern Prophet: Answers Your Key Questions About Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65038 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65038"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BW1GW9J3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold Klemp</div> Flute of God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65039 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Twitchell</div> Real Presences http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65040 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65040"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JwU7KDYwL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Steiner</div> Out of Africa (Modern Library of the World's Best Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18566 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18566"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vYUprSeBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isak Dinesen</div> Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2654 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2654"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IuwXgzuuL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Berger</div> The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1552 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1552"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5190zFSQw9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Charles Kors</div> Property Matters: How Property Rights Are Under Assault and Why You Should Care http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65041 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65041"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684874377.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James V. DeLong</div> Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24106 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24106"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ff%2BoDVdrL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jay Stevens</div> The Texan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65042 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Homage to Catalonia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4117 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4117"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-EhnniOuL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19425 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19425"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684842971.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William James</div> How to Lie with Statistics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10832 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10832"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UT7gYNn6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Darrell Huff</div> But Is It True?: A Citizen's Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65043 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65043"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uwFR-FxHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aaron Wildavsky</div> A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10282 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10282"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UMjqOAAqL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Allen Paulos</div> Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41535 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41535"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419wFBq5QeL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Northrop Frye</div> Mainspring of Human Progress http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65044 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. Henry Weaver</div> Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1380 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1380"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41cxgY%2BTZdL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Johnson</div> Men to Match My Mountains http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65045 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65045"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ydbFhuqWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irving Stone</div>