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Tags: books

100 Best Nonfiction (The Reader's List)

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From The Modern Library, http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnonfiction.html.

Item
The Virtue of Selfishness (Ayn Rand)
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (L. Ron Hubbard)
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (Leonard Peikoff)
101 Things to Do Til the Revolution (Claire Wolfe)
The God of the Machine (Isabel Paterson)
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (Michael Paxton)
The Ultimate Resource (Julian Simon)
Economics in One Lesson (Henry Hazlitt)
Send in the Waco Killers (Vin Suprynowicz)
More Guns, Less Crime (John R. Lott)
Psychiatry: The Ultimate Betrayal (Bruce Wiseman)
Fingerprints of the Gods (G. Hancock)
Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being (Tibor Machan)
Free to Choose (Milton and Rose Friedman)
Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do (Peter McWilliams)
The Road to Serfdom (F. A. Hayek)
Freedom in Chains (James Bovard)
America's Great Depression (Murray N. Rothbard)
The Roosevelt Myth (John T. Flynn)
The True Believer (Eric Hoffer)
Vindicating the Founders (Thomas West)
The Declaration of Independence (Carl L. Becker)
Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (Aaron T. Beck)
Death by Government (R. J. Rummel)
A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
Longitude (Dava Sobel)
Ordinarily Sacred (Lynda Sexson)
Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Art of Memory (Frances Yates)
Dumbing Us Down (John Taylor Gatto)
The Golden Bough (James Frazer)
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (Stephen E. Ambrose)
A Modern Prophet (Harold Klemp)
The Flute of God (Paul Twitchell)
Real Presences (George Steiner)
Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen)
Ways of Seeing (John Berger)
The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (Alan Charles Kors)
Property Matters: How Property Rights Are Under Assault and Why You Should Care (James V. de Long)
Storming Heaven (Jay Stevens)
The Texan (C. S. Barrios)
Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
The Varieties of Religious Experience (William James)
How to Lie With Statistics (Darrell Huff)
But Is It True? (Aaron Wildavsky)
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (John Allen Paulos)
Anatomy of Criticism (Northrop Frye)
The Mainspring of Human Progress (Henry Grady Weaver)
Modern Times (Paul Johnson)
Men to Match My Mountains (Irving Stone)
The Education of Henry Adams (Henry Adams)
The Great Bridge (David McCullough)
American Gay (Stephen O. Murray)
The Double Helix (James D. Watson)
The Sense of an Ending (Frank Kermode)
The Gnostic Gospels (Elaine Pagels)
Eros the Bittersweet (Anne Carson)
The Western Canon (Harold Bloom)
The White Goddess (Robert Graves)
Healing Our World (Mary Ruwart)
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)
Sexual Personae (Camille Paglia)
Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)
A Life of One's Own (David Kelley)
Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley)
The Discovery of Freedom (Rose Wilder Lane)
More Liberty Means Less Government (Walter Williams)
Libertarianism: A Primer (David Boaz)
Beyond Liberal and Conservative (William Maddox and Stuart Lilie)
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (Thomas Sowell)
Parliament of Whores (P. J. O'Rourke)
Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families (Sheldon Richman)
The Future and Its Enemies (Virginia Postrel)
The Elements of Style (William Strunk and E. B. White)
Orientalism (Edward Said)
Ecoterror (Ron Arnold)
Why Government Doesn't Work (Harry Browne)
Out of the Crisis (W. Edwards Deming)
Not out of Africa (Mary Lefkowitz)
The End of Racism (Dinesh D'Souza)
Behind the Mask (Ian Buruma)
In a Dark Wood (Alston Chase)
Private Parts (Howard Stern)
The Telephone Book (Avital Ronell)
The Minuteman: Restoring an Army of the People (Gary Hart)
Waking and Dreaming (Joseph Hart)
The Greatest Story Never Told (Lana Cantrell)
Radical Son (David Horowitz)
Under the Sign of Saturn (Susan Sontag)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Alex Haley and Malcolm X)
A Feeling for Books (Janice Radway)
The Hero of a Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)
The Job (William Burroughs)
Silent Interviews (Samuel R. Delany)
Slats Grobnik and Some Other Friends (Mike Royko)
Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics (Michael Novack)
Reverse Angle (John Simon)
Placing Movies (Jonathon Rosenbaum)
Right from the Beginning (Patrick J. Buchanan)