The Best Nonfiction Books of the Century

Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Varities of Religious Experiences by William James

Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Mary Gordon

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson (Preface), Lawrence Bragg

Speak, Memory : An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes

The Lives of a Cell : Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas

Black Boy : (American Hunger) by Richard Wright

Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster

The Civil War : A Narrative : Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Red River to Appomattox (3 Vol. Set) by Shelby Foote

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Proper Study of Mankind : An Anthology of Essays by Sir Berlin Isaiah

The Nature and Destiny of Man : A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature by Reinhold Niebuhr, Robin W. Lovin (Introduction)

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

Elements of Style by William Strunk, E. B. White

Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

The Ants by Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson

Making of the English Working Class by Edward P. Thompson

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Dubois

Principia Ethica by G. E. Moore

On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein

The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon : A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West

Autobiographies by William H. O'Donnell (Editor), Douglas N. Archibald (Editor), William Butler Yeats

Good-Bye to All That : An Autobiography by Robert Graves

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Autobiography of Mark Twain by Charles Neider

A Study of History/Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee

The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

Present at the Creation : My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson

The Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

Working : People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel

Darkness Visible : A Memoir of Madness by William Styron

Second World War by Winston Churchill

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen

Jefferson, the Virginian by Dumas Malone

In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams, H. Gregory

Cadillac Desert : The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Mark Reisner

The House of Morgan : An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney

The Gate of Heavenly Peace : The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980 by Jonathan D. Spence

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

The Strange Career of Jim Crow by Comer Vann Woodward

The Rise of the West : A History of the Human Community With a Retrospective Essay by William H. McNeill

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson

Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield, Peter Stansky

Vermeer by Lawrence Gowing, Johannes Vermeer, Ernst H. Gombrich

A Bright Shining Lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan

West With the Night by Beryl Markham

This Boy's Life : A Memoir by Tobias Wolff

A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow

Six Easy Pieces : Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands, Richard Phillips Feynman

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Golden Bough by James George Frazer

The Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro

American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It by Richard Hofstadter, Christopher Lasch

The Promise of American Life by Herbert Croly

In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote

The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

The Taming of Chance by Tim Hacking, Ian Hacking

Operating Instructions : A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott

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