Lists of Bests: The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction http://www.listsofbests.com/list/20079 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:23:46 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The Education of Henry Adams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2136682 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2136682"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406802786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42269751_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Adams</div> The Varieties of Religious Experience http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934055 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934055"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1402199031.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William James</div> Up from Slavery: an autobiography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2483589 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2483589"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406923400.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44279292_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Booker T. Washington</div> A Room of One's Own http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2128493 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virgina 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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618249060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> Selected essays, 1917-1932 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766700 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684852799.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. Watson</div> Speak, Memory (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336387 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336387"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141183225.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> American Language http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2117736 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry 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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573921394.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Maynard Keynes</div> Lives of a Cell, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74959 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74959"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553275801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Thomas</div> The Frontier In American History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2256976 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2256976"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1428617620.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43974055_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Jackson Turner</div> Black Boy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491166 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Wright</div> Aspects of the Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2272449 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> The Civil War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/821892 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/821892"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0712698124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shelby Foote</div> Guns of August http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491175 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Tuchman</div> The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8627 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8627"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374527172.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaiah Berlin</div> THE NATURE AND DESTINY OF MAN http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491182 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Reinhold Niebuhr</div> Notes of a Native Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491184 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423303 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423303"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679600817.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gertrude Stein</div> The Elements of Style http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1998874 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by JR. E.B. WHITE WILLIAM STRUNK</div> An American Dilemma : The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1018814 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunnar Myrdal</div> Principia Mathematica http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/699236 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred North Whitehead and Russell Bertrand</div> The Mismeasure of Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10869 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10869"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393314251.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Jay Gould</div> The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491193 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by M. H. Abrams</div> THE ART OF THE SOLUBLE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2266796 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P.B. Medawar</div> THE ANTS http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766753 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson</div> A Theory of Justice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2483549 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Rawls</div> Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/965097 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/965097"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0714842087.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.H. Gombrich</div> The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766763 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766763"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140136037.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.P. Thompson</div> The Souls of Black Folk http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664800 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664800"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1420925857.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. E. B. Du Bois</div> Principia Ethica (Principles of Ethics) (Philosophical Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1273919 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1273919"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486437523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. E. Moore</div> Philosophy and Civilization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1138652 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1138652"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1425454941.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Dewey</div> On Growth and Form (Canto) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1582512 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1582512"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521437768.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson</div> Ideas and Opinions (Condor Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2477930 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2477930"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0285647253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> The Age of Jackson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423356 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.</div> The Making of the Atomic Bomb http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19275 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19275"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684813785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Rhodes</div> Black Lamb and Grey Falcon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2045629 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2045629"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014310490X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rebecca West</div> AUTOBIOGRAPHIES http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766820 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. B. Yeats</div> Science and Civilisation in China http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491246 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491246"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521058007.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056450536_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Needham</div> Goodbye to All That (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766845 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766845"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141184590.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book) 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://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156421178.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Autobiography of Mark Twain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64981 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Children of Crisis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64982 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64982"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316151025.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Coles</div> A Study Of History (Abridgement of Vols. 1-10, 2-vol. set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/937620 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/937620"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BR3E6O.01-A1AOT2CTF2SM5P._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arnold J. Toynbee</div> The Affluent Society (Penguin Business) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934509 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934509"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140285199.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kenneth Galbraith</div> Present at the Creation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2145524 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dean Acheson</div> The Great Bridge (Library Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2474000 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2474000"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/073666050X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David McCullough</div> Patriotic Gore http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2491282 <div id="position">49</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund Wilson</div> SAMUEL JOHNSON http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766920 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Jackson Bate</div>