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The Modern Library list of the century's top
100 works of nonfiction:
1. "The Education
of Henry Adams," Henry Adams.
2. "The Varieties
of Religious Experience," William James.
3. "Up From
Slavery," Booker T. Washington.
4. "A Room
of One's Own," Virginia Woolf.
5. "Silent
Spring," Rachel Carson.
6. "Selected
Essays, 1917-1932," T.S. Eliot.
7. "The Double
Helix," James D. Watson.
8. "Speak,
Memory," Vladimir Nabokov.
9. "The American
Language," H.L. Mencken.
10. "The General
Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money," John Maynard
Keynes.
11. "The Lives
of a Cell," Lewis Thomas.
12. "The Frontier
in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner.
13. "Black
Boy," Richard Wright.
14. "Aspects
of the Novel," E.M. Forster.
15. "The Civil
War," Shelby Foote.
16. "The Guns
of August," Barbara Tuchman.
17. "The Proper
Study of Mankind," Isaiah Berlin.
18. "The Nature
and Destiny of Man," Reinhold Niebuhr.
19. "Notes
of a Native Son," James Baldwin.
20. "The Autobiography
of Alice B. Toklas," Gertrude Stein
.
21. "The Elements
of Style," William Strunk and E.B. White.
22. "An American
Dilemma," Gunnar Myrdal.
23. "Principia
Mathematica," Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell.
24. "The Mismeasure
of Man," Stephen Jay Gould.
25. "The Mirror
and the Lamp," Meyer Howard Abrams.
26. "The Art
of the Soluble," Peter B. Medawar.
27. "The Ants,"
Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson.
28. "A Theory
of Justice," John Rawls.
29. "Art and
Illusion," Ernest H. Gombrich.
30. "The Making
of the English Working Class," E.P. Thompson.
31. "The Souls
of Black Folk," W.E.B. DuBois.
32. "Principia
Ethica," G.E. Moore.
33. "Philosophy
and Civilization," John Dewey.
34. "On Growth
and Form," D'Arcy Thompson.
35. "Ideas
and Opinions," Albert Einstein.
36. "The Age
of Jackson," Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
37. "The Making
of the Atomic Bomb," Richard Rhodes.
38. "Black
Lamb and Grey Falcon," Rebecca West.
39. "Autobiographies,"
W.B. Yeats.
40. "Science
and Civilization in China," Joseph Needham.
41. "Goodbye
to All That," Robert Graves.
42. "Homage
to Catalonia," George Orwell.
43. "The Autobiography
of Mark Twain," Mark Twain.
44. "Children
of Crisis," Robert Coles.
45. "A Study
of History," Arnold J. Toynbee.
46. "The Affluent
Society," John Kenneth Galbraith.
47. "Present
at the Creation," Dean Acheson.
48. "The Great
Bridge," David McCullough.
49. "Patriotic
Gore," Edmund Wilson.
50. "Samuel
Johnson," Walter Jackson Bate.
51. "The Autobiography
of Malcolm X," Alex Haley and Malcolm X.
52. "The Right
Stuff," Tom Wolfe.
53. "Eminent
Victorians," Lytton Strachey.
54. "Working,"
Studs Terkel.
55. "Darkness
Visible," William Styron.
56. "The Liberal
Imagination," Lionel Trilling.
57. "The Second
World War," Winston Churchill.
58. "Out of
Africa," Isak Dinesen.
59. "Jefferson
and His Time," Dumas Malone.
60. "In the
American Grain," William Carlos Williams.
61. "Cadillac
Desert," Mark Reisner.
62. "The House
of Morgan," Ron Chernow.
63. "The Sweet
Science," A.J. Liebling.
64. "The Open
Society and Its Enemies," Karl Popper.
65. "The Art
of Memory," Frances A. Yates.
66. "Religion
and the Rise of Capitalism," R.H. Tawney.
67. "A Preface
to Morals," Walter Lippmann.
68. "The Gate
of Heavenly Peace," Jonathan D. Spence.
69. "The Structure
of Scientific Revolutions," Thomas S. Kuhn.
70. "The Strange
Career of Jim Crow," C. Vann Woodward.
71. "The Rise
of the West," William H. McNeill.
72. "The Gnostic
Gospels," Elaine Pagels.
73. "James
Joyce," Richard Ellmann.
74. "Florence
Nightingale," Cecil Woodham-Smith.
75. "The Great
War and Modern Memory," Paul Fussell.
76. "The City
in History," Lewis Mumford.
77. "Battle
Cry of Freedom," James M. McPherson.
78. "Why We
Can't Wait," Martin Luther King Jr.
79. "The Rise
of Theodore Roosevelt," Edmund Morris.
80. "Studies
in Iconology," Erwin Panofsky.
81. "The Face
of Battle," John Keegan.
82. "The Strange
Death of Liberal England," George Dangerfield.
83. "Vermeer,"
Lawrence Gowing.
84. "A Bright
Shining Lie," Neil Sheehan.
85. "West With
the Night," Beryl Markham.
86. "This Boy's
Life," Tobias Wolff.
87. "A Mathematician's
Apology," G.H. Hardy.
88. "Six Easy
Pieces," Richard P. Feynman.
89. "Pilgrim
at Tinker Creek," Annie Dillard.
90. "The Golden
Bough," James George Frazier.
91. "Shadow
and Act," Ralph Ellison.
92. "The Power
Broker," Robert Caro.
93. "The American
Political Tradition," Richard Hofstadter.
94. "The Contours
of American History," William Appleman Williams.
95. "The Promise
of American Life," Herbert Croly.
96. "In Cold
Blood," Truman Capote.
97. "The Journalist
and the Murderer," Janet Malcolm.
98. "The Taming
of Chance," Ian Hacking.
99. "Operating
Instructions," Anne Lamott.
100. "Melbourne,"
Lord David Cecil.