The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Readers' 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. It appears to have been heavily affected by a strong turnout from fans of Ayn Rand and L. Ron. Hubbard.

This is The Readers' List. See also The Board's List näytä vähemmän

Year Awarded:
1999
TeosOrder Label
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) (tekijä: Ayn Rand)
1
Dianetiikka (1950) (tekijä: L. Ron Hubbard)
2
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (1991) (tekijä: Leonard Peikoff)
3
101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution: Ideas and Resources for Self-Liberation, Monkey Wrenching and Preparedness (1996) (tekijä: Claire Wolfe)
4
The God of the Machine (1943) (tekijä: Isabel Paterson)
5
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life : The Companion Book (1998) (tekijä: Michael Paxton)
6
The Ultimate Resource (1981) (tekijä: Julian Lincoln Simon)
7
Talous yhdeltä istumalta (1946) (tekijä: Henry Hazlitt)
8
Send In The Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998 (1999) (tekijä: Vin Suprynowicz)
9
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (1998) (tekijä: John R. Lott Jr.)
10
Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal (1995) (tekijä: Bruce Wiseman)
11
Fingerprints of the Gods (1995) (tekijä: Graham Hancock)
12
Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being (1998) (tekijä: Tibor R. Machan)
13
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (1980) (tekijä: Milton Friedman)
14
Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society (1993) (tekijä: Peter McWilliams)
15
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents: The Definitive Edition (1944) (tekijä: F. A. Hayek)
16
Tie orjuuteen (1944) (tekijä: F. A. Hayek)
16
Freedom in Chains : The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (1891) (tekijä: James Bovard)
17
America's Great Depression (1963) (tekijä: Murray Rothbard)
18
The Roosevelt Myth (1948) (tekijä: John T. Flynn)
19
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (1951) (tekijä: Eric Hoffer)
20
Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America (1997) (tekijä: Thomas G. West)
21
The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas (1942) (tekijä: Carl Becker)
22
Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (1976) (tekijä: Aaron T. Beck)
23
Death by Government (1994) (tekijä: R. J. Rummel)
24
Oma huone (1929) (tekijä: Virginia Woolf)
25
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1995) (tekijä: Dava Sobel)
26
Ordinarily sacred (1982) (tekijä: Lynda Sexson)
27
Puhu, muisti (1947) (tekijä: Vladimir Nabokov)
28
The Art of Memory (1966) (tekijä: Frances A. Yates)
29
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992) (tekijä: John Taylor Gatto)
30
The Golden Bough (1890) (tekijä: James George Frazer)
31
Undaunted Courage (1996) (tekijä: Stephen E. Ambrose)
32
A Modern Prophet: Answers Your Key Questions About Life (1998) (tekijä: Harold Klemp)
33
The Flute of God (1832) (tekijä: Paul Twitchell)
34
Real Presences (1989) (tekijä: George Steiner)
35
Eurooppalaisena Afrikassa (1937) (tekijä: Isak Dinesen)
36
Näkemisen tavat (1972) (tekijä: John Berger)
37
The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses (1998) (tekijä: Alan Charles Kors)
38
Property Matters: How Property Rights Are Under Assault and Why You Should Care (1997) (tekijä: James V. DeLong)
39
Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (1987) (tekijä: Jay Stevens)
40
Katalonia, Katalonia (1938) (tekijä: George Orwell)
42
Uskonnollinen kokemus (1902) (tekijä: William James)
43
Kuinka tilastoilla valehdellaan (1954) (tekijä: Darrell Huff)
44
But Is It True?: A Citizens Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues (1995) (tekijä: Aaron Wildavsky)
45
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995) (tekijä: John Allen Paulos)
46
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) (tekijä: Northrop Frye)
47
The Mainspring of Human Progress (1947) (tekijä: Henry Grady Weaver)
48
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (2001) (tekijä: Paul Johnson)
49
Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900 (1956) (tekijä: Irving Stone)
50
The Education of Henry Adams (1907) (tekijä: Henry Adams)
51
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972) (tekijä: David McCullough)
52
American Gay (1996) (tekijä: Stephen O. Murray)
53
KAKSOISKIERRE (1969) (tekijä: James D. Watson)
54
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1967) (tekijä: Frank Kermode)
55
Gnostilaiset evankeliumit (1979) (tekijä: Elaine Pagels)
56
Eros the Bittersweet (1986) (tekijä: Anne Carson)
57
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (1994) (tekijä: Harold Bloom)
58
The White Goddess (1948) (tekijä: Robert Graves)
59
Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression (1992) (tekijä: Mary J. Ruwart)
60
Äänetön kevät (1962) (tekijä: Rachel Carson)
61
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) (tekijä: Annie Dillard)
62
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) (tekijä: Camille Paglia)
63
Think and Grow Rich (1937) (tekijä: Napoleon Hill)
64
A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State (1998) (tekijä: David Kelley)
65
The Doors of Perception (1954) (tekijä: Aldous Huxley)
66
The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943) (tekijä: Rose Wilder Lane)
67
More Liberty Means Less Government (1998) (tekijä: Walter E. Williams)
68
Libertarianism: A Primer (1997) (tekijä: David Boaz)
69
Beyond Liberal and Conservative: Reassessing the Political Spectrum (1984) (tekijä: William S. Maddox)
70
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (1987) (tekijä: Thomas Sowell)
71
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government (1991) (tekijä: P. J. O'Rourke)
72
Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's Families (1994) (tekijä: Sheldon Richman)
73
The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress (1998) (tekijä: Virginia Postrel)
74
The Elements of Style (1959) (tekijä: William Jr. Strunk)
75
Orientalismi (1978) (tekijä: Edward W. Said)
76
Ecoterror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature : The World of the Unabomber (1997) (tekijä: Ron Arnold)
77
Why Government Doesn't Work (1995) (tekijä: Harry Browne)
78
Out of the Crisis (1982) (tekijä: W. Edwards Deming)
79
Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth As History (1996) (tekijä: Mary Lefkowitz)
80
The End of Racism (1995) (tekijä: Dinesh D'Souza)
81
A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture (1984) (tekijä: Ian Buruma)
82
In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the New Tyranny of Ecology (1995) (tekijä: Alston Chase)
83
Private Parts (1993) (tekijä: Howard Stern)
84
The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989) (tekijä: Avital Ronell)
85
The Minuteman: Returning to an Army of the People (1998) (tekijä: Gary Hart)
86
The Greatest Story Never Told: A Scientific Inquiry into the Evidence of the Fall of Man from a Higher Civilization in Antiquity (1988) (tekijä: Lana Corrine Cantrell)
88
Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey (1997) (tekijä: David Horowitz)
89
Under the Sign of Saturn (1980) (tekijä: Susan Sontag)
90
Malcolm X (1965) (tekijä: Malcolm X)
91
A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire (1997) (tekijä: Janice A. Radway)
92
Sankarin tuhannet kasvot (1949) (tekijä: Joseph Campbell)
93
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (1970) (tekijä: Daniel Odier)
94
Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics--A Collection of Written Interviews (1994) (tekijä: Samuel R. Delany)
95
Slats Grobnik and some other friends (1973) (tekijä: Mike Royko)
96
The rise of the unmeltable ethnics; politics and culture in the seventies (1971) (tekijä: Michael Novak)
97
Reverse Angle: A Decade of American Film (1981) (tekijä: John Simon)
98
Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism (1995) (tekijä: Jonathan Rosenbaum)
99
Right from the Beginning (1988) (tekijä: Patrick J. Buchanan)
100

Kuvailut

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 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. It appears to have been heavily affected by a strong turnout from fans of Ayn Rand and L. Ron. Hubbard.

This is The Readers' List. See also The Board's List

(English, Member-written)

The work at #41, "The Texan" by C.S. Barrios, is to date not catalogued on LibraryThing.

(English, Technical/disambiguation notice)

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