Modern Library’s List of 100 Best Nonfiction Books
- Adams, Henry – Education of Henry Adams
- James, William – The varieties of religious experience : a study in human nature; being the Gifford lectures on natural religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902
- Washington, Booker T. – Up from slavery : an autobiography
- Woolf, Virginia – A room of one’s own
- Carson, Rachel – Silent spring
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) – Selected essays, 1917-1932
- Watson, James D. – The double helix : a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich – Speak, memory : an autobiography revisited
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) – The American language : an inquiry into the development of English in the United States
- Keynes, John Maynard – The general theory of employment, interest and money
- Thomas, Lewis – The lives of a cell : notes of a biology watcher
- Turner, Frederick Jackson – The frontier in American history
- Wright, Richard – Black boy : a record of childhood and youth
- Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) – Aspects of the novel, by E. M. Forster
- Foote, Shelby – The Civil War, a narrative
- Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim – The guns of August
- Chase, Stuart – The proper study of mankind, by Stuart Chase in consultation with Edmund deS. Brunner
- Berlin, Isaiah, Sir – The proper study of mankind : an anthology of essays
- Niebuhr, Reinhold – The nature and destiny of man : a Christian interpretation
- Baldwin, James – Notes of a native son
- Stein, Gertrude – The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Strunk, William – The elements of style
- Myrdal, Gunnar – American dilemma
- Whitehead, Alfred North – Principia mathematica
- Gould, Stephen Jay – The mismeasure of man
- Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard) – The mirror and the lamp : romantic theory and the critical tradition
- Medawar, P. B. (Peter Brian) – The art of the soluble
- Hölldoblerr, Bert – The ants
- Rawls, John – A theory of justice
- Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans) – Art and illusion : a study in the psychology of pictorial representation
- Thompson, E. P. (Edward Palmer) – The making of the English working class
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) – Souls of black folk
- Moore, G. E. (George Edward) – Principia ethica
- Dewey, John – Philosophy and civilization
- Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth – On growth and form
- Einstein, Albert – Ideas and opinions
- Schlesinger, Arthur Meier – The age of Jackson
- Rhodes, Richard – The making of the atomic bomb
- West, Rebecca, Dame – Black lamb and grey falcon : a journey through Yugoslavia
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) – Autobiographies
- Needham, Joseph – Science and civilisation in China
- Graves, Robert – Good-bye to all that
- Orwell, George – Homage to Catalonia
- Twain, Mark – The autobiography of Mark Twain
- Coles, Robert – Children of crisis
- Toynbee, Arnold Joseph – A study of history
- Galbraith, John Kenneth – The affluent society
- Acheson, Dean – Present at the creation; my years in the State Department
- McCullough, David G – The great bridge
- Wilson, Edmund – Patriotic gore; studies in the literature of the American Civil War
- Bate, Walter Jackson – Samuel Johnson
- X, Malcolm – The autobiography of Malcolm X
- Wolfe, Tom – The right stuff
- Strachey, Lytton – Eminent Victorians : the illustrated edition
- Terkel, Studs – Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do
- Styron, William – Darkness visible
- Churchill, Winston, Sir – The Second World War
- Dinesen, Isak – Out of Africa
- Malone, Dumas – Jefferson and his time
- Williams, William Carlos – In the American grain
- Reisner, Marc – Cadillac desert : the American West and its disappearing water
- Chernow, Ron – The house of Morgan : an American banking dynasty and the rise of modern finance
- Liebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph) – The sweet science
- Popper, Karl Raimund, Sir – The open society and its enemies
- Yates, Frances Amelia – The art of memory
- Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry) – Religion and the rise of capitalism
- Lippmann, Walter – A preface to morals
- Spence, Jonathan D – The Gate of heavenly peace : the Chinese and their revolution, 1895-1980
- Kuhn, Thomas S – The structure of scientific revolutions
- Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann) – The strange career of Jim Crow
- McNeill, William Hardy – The rise of the West; a history of the human community
- Pagels, Elaine H. – The gnostic Gospels
- Ellmann, Richard – James Joyce
- Woodham Smith, Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald – Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910
- Fussell, Paul – The Great War and modern memory
- Mumford, Lewis – The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects
- McPherson, James M – Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. – Why we can’t wait
- Morris, Edmund – The rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- Panofsky, Erwin – Studies in iconology : humanistic themes in the art of the Renaissance
- Keegan, John – The face of battle
- Dangerfield, George – The strange death of liberal England
- Gowing, Lawrence – Vermeer
- Sheehan, Neil – A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- Markham, Beryl – West with the night
- Wolff, Tobias – This boy’s life
- Hardy, G. H. (Godfrey Harold) – A mathematician’s apology
- Feynman, Richard Phillips – Six easy pieces : essentials of physics, explained by its most brilliant teacher
- Dillard, Annie – Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Frazer, James George, Sir – Golden bough
- Ellison, Ralph – Shadow and act
- Caro, Robert A – The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York
- Hofstadter, Richard – The American political tradition and the men who made it. With a foreword by Christopher Lasch
- Williams, William Appleman – The contours of American history
- Croly, Herbert David – The promise of American life
- Capote, Truman – In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
- Malcolm, Janet – The journalist and the murderer
- Hacking, Ian – The taming of chance
- Lamott, Anne – Operating instructions : a journal of my son’s first year
- Cecil, David, Lord – Melbourne
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