100 Best Nonfiction (The Reader's List)
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From The Modern Library, http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnonfiction.html.
| Item |
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| 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) |