100 Best Nonfiction (The Board's List)
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From The Modern Library, http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnonfiction.html.
| Item |
|---|
| The Education of Henry Adams (Henry Adams) |
| The Varieties of Religious Experience (William James) |
| Up from Slavery (Booker T. Washington) |
| A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf) |
| Silent Spring (Rachel Carson) |
| Selected Essays, 1917-1932 (T. S. Eliot) |
| The Double Helix (James D. Watson) |
| Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov) |
| The American Language (H. L. Mencken) |
| The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (John Maynard Keynes) |
| The Lives of a Cell (Lewis Thomas) |
| The Frontier in American History (Frederick Jackson Turner) |
| Black Boy (Richard Wright) |
| Aspects of the Novel (E. M. Forster) |
| The Civil War (Shelby Foote) |
| The Guns of August (Barbara Tuchman) |
| The Proper Study of Mankind (Isaiah Berlin) |
| The Nature and Destiny of Man (Reinhold Niebuhr) |
| Notes of a Native Son (James Baldwin) |
| The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein) |
| The Elements of Style (William Strunk and E. B. White) |
| An American Dilemma (Gunnar Myrdal) |
| Principia Mathematica (Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell) |
| The Mismeasure of Man (Stephen Jay Gould) |
| The Mirror and the Lamp (Meyer Howard Abrams) |
| The Art of the Soluble (Peter B. Medawar) |
| The Ants (Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson) |
| A Theory of Justice (John Rawls) |
| Art and Illusion (Ernest H. Gombrich) |
| The Making of the English Working Class (E. P. Thompson) |
| The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois) |
| Principia Ethica (G. E. Moore) |
| Philosophy and Civilization (John Dewey) |
| On Growth and Form (D'Arcy Thompson) |
| Ideas and Opinions (Albert Einstein) |
| The Age of Jackson (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.) |
| The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Richard Rhodes) |
| Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Rebecca West) |
| Autobiographies (W. B. Yeats) |
| Science and Civilization in China (Joseph Needham) |
| Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves) |
| Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell) |
| The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Mark Twain) |
| Children of Crisis (Robert Coles) |
| A Study of History (Arnold J. Toynbee) |
| The Affluent Society (John Kenneth Galbraith) |
| Present at the Creation (Dean Acheson) |
| The Great Bridge (David Mccullough) |
| Patriotic Gore (Edmund Wilson) |
| Samuel Johnson (Walter Jackson Bate) |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Alex Haley and Malcolm X) |
| The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe) |
| Eminent Victorians (Lytton Strachey) |
| Working (Studs Terkel) |
| Darkness Visible (William Styron) |
| The Liberal Imagination (Lionel Trilling) |
| The Second World War (Winston Churchill) |
| Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen) |
| Jefferson and His Time (Dumas Malone) |
| In the American Grain (William Carlos Williams) |
| Cadillac Desert (Marc Reisner) |
| The House of Morgan (Ron Chernow) |
| The Sweet Science (A. J. Liebling) |
| The Open Society and Its Enemies (Karl Popper) |
| The Art of Memory (Frances A. Yates) |
| Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (R. H. Tawney) |
| A Preface to Morals (Walter Lippmann) |
| The Gate of Heavenly Peace (Jonathan D. Spence) |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn) |
| The Strange Career of Jim Crow (C. Vann Woodward) |
| The Rise of the West (William H. Mcneill) |
| The Gnostic Gospels (Elaine Pagels) |
| James Joyce (Richard Ellmann) |
| Florence Nightingale (Cecil Woodham-Smith) |
| The Great War and Modern Memory (Paul Fussell) |
| The City in History (Lewis Mumford) |
| Battle Cry of Freedom (James M. Mcpherson) |
| Why We Can't Wait (Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
| The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Edmund Morris) |
| Studies in Iconology (Erwin Panofsky) |
| The Face of Battle (John Keegan) |
| The Strange Death of Liberal England (George Dangerfield) |
| Vermeer (Lawrence Gowing) |
| A Bright Shining Lie (Neil Sheehan) |
| West With the Night (Beryl Markham) |
| This Boy's Life (Tobias Wolff) |
| A Mathematician's Apology (G. H. Hardy) |
| Six Easy Pieces (Richard P. Feynman) |
| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard) |
| The Golden Bough (James George Frazer) |
| Shadow and Act (Ralph Ellison) |
| The Power Broker (Robert A. Caro) |
| The American Political Tradition (Richard Hofstadter) |
| The Contours of American History (William Appleman Williams) |
| The Promise of American Life (Herbert Croly) |
| In Cold Blood (Truman Capote) |
| The Journalist and the Murderer (Janet Malcolm) |
| The Taming of Chance (Ian Hacking) |
| Operating Instructions (Anne Lamott) |
| Melbourne (Lord David Cecil) |
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