The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

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The goal of the "100 Best" project was to get people talking about great books. We succeeded beyond our wildest imaginings -- more than 400,000 avid readers rushed online to cast votes for their

näytä lisää favorite books.


The readers' poll for the best nonfiction published in the English language since 1900 opened on April 29, 1999 and closed on September 30, 1999 with a total of 194,829 votes cast.

This list of 100 nonfiction books was drawn up by the editorial board of Modern Library. See also The Readers' List. näytä vähemmän

TeosOrder Label
The Education of Henry Adams (1907) (tekijä: Henry Adams)
1
Uskonnollinen kokemus (1902) (tekijä: William James)
2
Up from Slavery (1901) (tekijä: Booker T. Washington)
3
Oma huone (1929) (tekijä: Virginia Woolf)
4
Äänetön kevät (1962) (tekijä: Rachel Carson)
5
Selected Essays (1932) (tekijä: T. S. Eliot)
6
Kaksoiskierre. Henkilökohtainen selonteko DNA:n rakenteen keksimisestä (1969) (tekijä: James D. Watson)
7
Puhu, muisti (1947) (tekijä: Vladimir Nabokov)
8
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (1936) (tekijä: H. L. Mencken)
9
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) (tekijä: John Maynard Keynes)
10
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) (tekijä: Lewis Thomas)
11
The Frontier in American History (1920) (tekijä: Frederick Jackson Turner)
12
Musta poika (1945) (tekijä: Richard Wright)
13
Aspects of the Novel (1927) (tekijä: E. M. Forster)
14
The Civil War: A Narrative (1958) (tekijä: Shelby Foote)
15
Elokuun tykit ensimmäisen maailmansodan synty (1962) (tekijä: Barbara W. Tuchman)
16
Vapaus, ihmisyys ja historia : valikoima esseitä (1997) (tekijä: Isaiah Berlin)
17
The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (1943) (tekijä: Reinhold Niebuhr)
18
Notes of a Native Son (1955) (tekijä: James Baldwin)
19
Alice B. Toklasin omaelämäkerta (1933) (tekijä: Gertrude Stein)
20
The Elements of Style (1959) (tekijä: William Jr. Strunk)
21
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) (tekijä: Gunnar Myrdal)
22
Principia Mathematica (3-volume set) (1927) (tekijä: Alfred North Whitehead)
23
The Mismeasure of Man (1981) (tekijä: Stephen Jay Gould)
24
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1953) (tekijä: Meyer H. Abrams)
25
The Art of the Soluble: Creativity and Originality in Science (1960) (tekijä: P. B. Medawar)
26
Muurahaiset (1990) (tekijä: Bert Hölldobler)
27
A Theory of Justice (1971) (tekijä: John Rawls)
28
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960) (tekijä: E. H. Gombrich)
29
The Making of the English Working Class (1963) (tekijä: E. P. Thompson)
30
The Souls of Black Folk (1903) (tekijä: W. E. B. Du Bois)
31
Principia Ethica (1903) (tekijä: G. E. Moore)
32
The Philosophy of Civilization (1946) (tekijä: Albert Schweitzer)
33
On Growth and Form (1917) (tekijä: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson)
34
Ideas and Opinions (1934) (tekijä: Albert Einstein)
35
The Age of Jackson (1945) (tekijä: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
36
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986) (tekijä: Richard Rhodes)
37
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia (1941) (tekijä: Rebecca West)
38
Autobiographies (1927) (tekijä: William Butler Yeats)
39
Science and civilization in China (tekijä: Joseph Needham)
40
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) (tekijä: Robert Graves)
41
Katalonia, Katalonia (1938) (tekijä: George Orwell)
42
Omaelämäkertani (1959) (tekijä: Mark Twain)
43
Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear (1967) (tekijä: Robert Coles)
44
A Study of History, 1: Introduction; The Geneses of Civilizations, Part 1 (1933) (tekijä: Arnold J. Toynbee)
45
The Affluent Society (1958) (tekijä: John Kenneth Galbraith)
46
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969) (tekijä: Dean Acheson)
47
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972) (tekijä: David McCullough)
48
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War (1962) (tekijä: Edmund Wilson)
49
Samuel Johnson (1977) (tekijä: W. Jackson Bate)
50
Malcolm X (1965) (tekijä: Malcolm X)
51
The Right Stuff (1979) (tekijä: Tom Wolfe)
52
Eminent Victorians (1918) (tekijä: Lytton Strachey)
53
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974) (tekijä: Studs Terkel)
54
Pimeän kuva : muistelma hulluudesta (1990) (tekijä: William Styron)
55
The Liberal Imagination (1950) (tekijä: Lionel Trilling)
56
The Second World War {complete} (1950) (tekijä: Winston S. Churchill)
57
Eurooppalaisena Afrikassa (1937) (tekijä: Isak Dinesen)
58
Jefferson and His Time (6 Volume Set) (1948) (tekijä: Dumas Malone)
59
In the American Grain (1925) (tekijä: William Carlos Williams)
60
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (1986) (tekijä: Marc Reisner)
61
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (1990) (tekijä: Ron Chernow)
62
The Sweet Science (1987) (tekijä: A. J. Liebling)
63
Avoin yhteiskunta ja sen viholliset (1962) (tekijä: Karl Popper)
64
The Art of Memory (1966) (tekijä: Frances A. Yates)
65
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Study (1926) (tekijä: R. H. Tawney)
66
A Preface to Morals (1929) (tekijä: Walter Lippmann)
67
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution (1981) (tekijä: Jonathan D. Spence)
68
Tieteellisten vallankumousten rakenne (1962) (tekijä: Thomas S. Kuhn)
69
The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955) (tekijä: C. Vann Woodward)
70
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963) (tekijä: William H. McNeill)
71
Gnostilaiset evankeliumit (1979) (tekijä: Elaine Pagels)
72
James Joyce (1959) (tekijä: Richard Ellmann)
73
Florence Nightingale (1951) (tekijä: Cecil Woodham-Smith)
74
The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) (tekijä: Paul Fussell)
75
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (1961) (tekijä: Lewis Mumford)
76
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988) (tekijä: James M. McPherson)
77
Emme voi odottaa (1964) (tekijä: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
78
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) (tekijä: Edmund Morris)
79
Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939) (tekijä: Erwin Panofsky)
80
The Face of Battle (1976) (tekijä: John Keegan)
81
The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935) (tekijä: George Dangerfield)
82
Vermeer (Barnes & Noble Art Series) (1961) (tekijä: Lawrence Gowing)
83
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) (tekijä: Neil Sheehan)
84
Yön yli länteen (1942) (tekijä: Beryl Markham)
85
This Boy's Life (1989) (tekijä: Tobias Wolff)
86
Matemaatikon apologia (1940) (tekijä: G. H. Hardy)
87
Suhteellisen helppoa (1963) (tekijä: Richard P. Feynman)
88
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) (tekijä: Annie Dillard)
89
The Golden Bough (1890) (tekijä: James George Frazer)
90
Shadow and Act (1964) (tekijä: Ralph Ellison)
91
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) (tekijä: Robert A. Caro)
92
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made it (1948) (tekijä: Richard Hofstadter)
93
The Contours of American History (1966) (tekijä: William Appleman Williams)
94
The Promise of American Life (1964) (tekijä: Herbert Croly)
95
Kylmäverisesti : totuudenmukainen kuvaus eräästä joukkomurhasta ja sen seurauksista (1965) (tekijä: Truman Capote)
96
The Journalist and the Murderer (1990) (tekijä: Janet Malcolm)
97
The Taming of Chance (1990) (tekijä: Ian Hacking)
98
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year (1993) (tekijä: Anne Lamott)
99
Melbourne (1954) (tekijä: David Cecil)
100

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