Lists of Bests: The Modern Library's 100 Best Non-Fiction List http://www.listsofbests.com/list/9808 http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnonfiction.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:42:42 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The Education of Henry Adams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983640 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983640"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1406504599.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Adams</div> The Varieties of Religious Experience http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1197607 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1197607"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/142190585X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119487199_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William James</div> Up From Slavery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/370408 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/370408"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E82VRI.01-A1CRANICB1QVV0._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43073211_.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/962254 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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://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/1766698 <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> The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20851 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20851"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074321630X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James D. Watson</div> Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8693 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8693"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375405534.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438254_.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://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394400755.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.L. Mencken</div> The General Theory of Employment, Interest And Money http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1302258 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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/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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766714 <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/1766715 <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 (American Heritage Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983591 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983591"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618001875.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bruce Catton</div> The Guns of August http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968383 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968383"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345476093.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara W. 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: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature (Library of Theological Ethics) 2 Volume Set http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64965 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64965"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0664257097.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Reinhold Niebuhr</div> Notes of a Native Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1214085 <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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18679 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18679"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972463X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192800_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gertrude Stein</div> Elements of Style http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/745639 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/745639"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400042313.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wendy Wasserstein</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 (Cambridge Mathematical Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15259 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15259"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521626064.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred North Whitehead</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 (Galaxy Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64970 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64970"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195014715.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Meyer H. Abrams</div> The art of the soluble http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/642311 <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: Original Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1010614 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1010614"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674017722.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></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> Making of the English Working Class http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11153 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11153"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394703227.01._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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64974 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64974"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521448484.01._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 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/765369 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/765369"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0517884402.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114353353_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Einstein</div> The Age of Jackson (Back Bay Books (Series)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64977 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64977"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316773433.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Meier 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: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64978 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64978"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140188479.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59143551_.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/1766825 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766825"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521652707.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056453589_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. T. Huang</div> Goodbye to All That (Essential.penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766844 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1766844"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140274200.01._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/766468 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766468"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BF4NLQ.01-A1DI3XXAD7CH18._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46748057_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edited By Charles Neider</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> National History: 20th Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55404 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55404"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195050800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056423536_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Igor Dolutsky</div> The Affluent Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11400 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11400"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395925002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077665851_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kenneth Galbraith</div> Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64984 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64984"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393304124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dean Acheson</div> The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969062 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969062"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743217373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David McCullough</div> Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64985 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64985"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393312569.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></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>