Lists of Bests: WORLD Magazine's "The century's top 100 books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/2978 From our perspective, with our bias toward English-language books, represented here are 100 of the top books of the century. Authors are listed in alphabetical order, and only one title per author is listed, though the author's other books may be equally worthy of inclusion. From http://www.worldmag.com/articles/3366 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:58:07 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The Education of Henry Adams (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4240 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4240"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192823698.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Adams</div> The Origins of Totalitarianism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4147 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4147"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156701537.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422707_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> The Unheavenly City: The Nature and the Future of Our Urban Crisis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839222 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward C Banfield</div> Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839237 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P. T. Bauer</div> DARWINS BLACK BOX: THE BIOCHEMICAL CHALLENGE TO EVOLUTION http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19380 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19380"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684834936.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael J. Behe</div> Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17956 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17956"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671683063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Systematic Theology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839272 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839272"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802838200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis Berkhof</div> The Closing of the American Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17935 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17935"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671657151.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allan Bloom</div> Romans: God and History : Romans 9-11 (Expositional Commentary) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839282 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839282"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0801010586.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Montgomery Boice</div> The Cost of Discipleship http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19279 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19279"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684815001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114054094_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dietrich Bonhoeffer</div> Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25082 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25082"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811200124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056494802_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68462 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68462"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060573112.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert H. Bork</div> God and Man at Yale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93978 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93978"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/089526692X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057196361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William F. Buckley</div> My Utmost for His Highest: An Updated Edition in Today's Language http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27988 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27988"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0929239571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056507895_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oswald Chambers</div> Witness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66623 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66623"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0895267896.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Whittaker Chambers</div> Orthodoxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27750 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27750"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0898705525.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. K. Chesterton</div> The Second World War (Six Volume Boxed Set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11316 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11316"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039541685X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winston S. Churchill</div> Born Again http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839328 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839328"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0800786335.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles W. Colson</div> The Great Terror: A Reassessment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4390 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4390"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195071328.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Conquest</div> The God That Failed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839342 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839342"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0231123957.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056426697_.jpg" /></a></div> The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/254068 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/254068"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521678676.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131058787_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William A. Dembski</div> The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14224 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14224"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465016103.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hernando De Soto</div> Pilgrim at Tinker Creek http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1421 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1421"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060953020.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Dillard</div> T.S. Eliot Collected Poems 1909-1962 (1st U.S. Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839385 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839385"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000F3HVFE.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.S. Eliot</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464902_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> The Humiliation of the Word http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/348593 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/348593"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802800696.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacques Ellul</div> Silence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23891 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23891"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0800871863.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shusaku Endo</div> The Theme Is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/841969 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/841969"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0895264978.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by M. Stanton Evans</div> Collected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66371 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66371"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679764038.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Christian Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114624 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114624"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0851515169.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sinclair B. Ferguson</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743273567.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11213 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11213"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394749138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shelby Foote</div> Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15828 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15828"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553296981.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Frank</div> Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4956 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4956"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226264211.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milton Friedman</div> The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24472 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24472"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805005021.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Frost</div> The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/503021 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Wealth and Poverty (Ics Series in Self-Governance) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/805674 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/805674"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1558152407.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056516451_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Gilder</div> The Cypresses Believe in God: Spain on the Eve of Civil War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839772 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/839772"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1586170465.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Maria Gironella</div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11596 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11596"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0399501487.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64005039_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3713 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3713"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4967 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4967"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226320618.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. A. Hayek</div> God, Revelation and Authority http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/842053 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry</div> In the Face of God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/842075 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/842075"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0849913020.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1103775063_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Scott Horton</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties, Revised Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1380 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1380"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060935502.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul M. Johnson</div> Darwin on Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26140 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26140"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0830813241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Phillip E. Johnson</div> Psychological seduction: The failure of modern psychology http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/842092 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Kilpatrick</div> The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27641 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27641"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0895261715.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Kirk</div> The Quest for Holiness: A Biblical, Historical and Systematic Investigation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/842111 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/842111"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592448399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adolf Koberle</div> Darkness at Noon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76009 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76009"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099424916.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Koestler</div>