This document appears to be a webpage from Random House listing 100 best nonfiction books as selected by their board and readers. It provides two lists of 21 books each that were selected as the best nonfiction by the board and readers respectively based on their influence and importance. The lists cover a wide range of topics from history, science, politics, economics, art and autobiographies.
This document appears to be a webpage from Random House listing 100 best nonfiction books as selected by their board and readers. It provides two lists of 21 books each that were selected as the best nonfiction by the board and readers respectively based on their influence and importance. The lists cover a wide range of topics from history, science, politics, economics, art and autobiographies.
This document appears to be a webpage from Random House listing 100 best nonfiction books as selected by their board and readers. It provides two lists of 21 books each that were selected as the best nonfiction by the board and readers respectively based on their influence and importance. The lists cover a wide range of topics from history, science, politics, economics, art and autobiographies.
This document appears to be a webpage from Random House listing 100 best nonfiction books as selected by their board and readers. It provides two lists of 21 books each that were selected as the best nonfiction by the board and readers respectively based on their influence and importance. The lists cover a wide range of topics from history, science, politics, economics, art and autobiographies.
Copyright:
Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as pdf or txt
You are on page 1/ 4
Random House, Inc.
| Modern Library | More Sites
Account | Cart | Feedback | Help | Title Search: Search Random House
HOME
LIBRARY
TOP 100
SHAKESPEARE
READING GUIDES
COLLECTORS
EDUCATION RESOURCES
ABOUT
100 Best Nonfiction
Top 100 100 Best Novels 100 Best Nonfiction Radcliffes Rival 100 Best Novels List
SIGN-UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER
Join our newsletter and receive updates on Modern Library releases right in your inbox. S UBM I T
THE BOARDS LIST
1. THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by Henry Adams THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by William James UP FROM SLAVERY by Booker T. Washington A ROOM OF ONES OWN by Virginia Woolf SILENT SPRING by Rachel Carson SELECTED ESSAYS, 1917-1932 by T. S. Eliot THE DOUBLE HELIX by James D. Watson SPEAK, MEMORY by Vladimir Nabokov THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE by H. L. Mencken THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST, AND MONEY by John Maynard Keynes THE LIVES OF A CELL by Lewis Thomas THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY by Frederick Jackson Turner BLACK BOY by Richard Wright ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL by E. M. Forster THE CIVIL WAR by Shelby Foote THE GUNS OF AUGUST by Barbara Tuchman THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND by Isaiah Berlin THE NATURE AND DESTINY OF MAN by Reinhold Niebuhr NOTES OF A NATIVE SON by James Baldwin THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS by Gertrude Stein THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE by William Strunk and E. B. White
THE READERS LIST
1. THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS by Ayn Rand DIANETICS:THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH by L. Ron Hubbard OBJECTIVISM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF AYN RAND by Leonard Peikoff 101 THINGS TO DO TIL THE REVOLUTION by Claire Wolfe THE GOD OF THE MACHINE by Isabel Paterson AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE by Michael Paxton THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE by Julian Simon ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON by Henry Hazlitt SEND IN THE WACO KILLERS by Vin Suprynowicz MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME by John R. Lott PSYCHIATRY: THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL by Bruce Wiseman FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS by G. Hancock CLASSICAL INDIVIDUALISM: THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF EACH HUMAN BEING by Tibor Machan FREE TO CHOOSE by Milton and Rose Friedman AINT NOBODYS BUSINESS IF YOU DO by Peter McWilliams THE ROAD TO SERFDOM by F. A. Hayek FREEDOM IN CHAINS by James Bovard AMERICAS GREAT DEPRESSION by Murray N. Rothbard THE ROOSEVELT MYTH by John T. Flynn THE TRUE BELIEVER by Eric Hoffer VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Les Miserables Victor Hugo The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson
SEARCH THE SITE
2.
2.
SEARCH
3.
3.
4.
SEARCH FOR A TITLE OR AUTHOR
4.
5.
SEARCH
5.
6.
6.
OUR BESTSELLERS
7.
7.
8.
8.
9.
9.
10.
10.
11.
11.
12.
12.
13.
13.
14.
15.
14.
16.
15.
17.
16.
PREV | MORE
18.
17.
19.
18.
FOR TEACHERS Use our academic resources to help plan your teaching program. Go there now.
20.
19.
21.
20.
21.
22.
AN AMERICAN DILEMMA by Gunnar Myrdal PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell THE MISMEASURE OF MAN by Stephen Jay Gould THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP by Meyer Howard Abrams THE ART OF THE SOLUBLE by Peter B. Medawar THE ANTS by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson A THEORY OF JUSTICE by John Rawls ART AND ILLUSION by Ernest H. Gombrich THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS by E. P. Thompson THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK by W.E.B. Du Bois PRINCIPIA ETHICA by G. E. Moore PHILOSOPHY AND CIVILIZATION by John Dewey ON GROWTH AND FORM by DArcy Thompson IDEAS AND OPINIONS by Albert Einstein THE AGE OF JACKSON , Arthur Schlesinger by Jr. THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON by Rebecca West AUTOBIOGRAPHIES by W. B. Yeats SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION IN CHINA by Joseph Needham GOODBYE TO ALL THAT by Robert Graves HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by George Orwell THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN by Mark Twain CHILDREN OF CRISIS by Robert Coles A STUDY OF HISTORY by Arnold J. Toynbee THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY by John Kenneth Galbraith PRESENT AT THE CREATION by Dean Acheson THE GREAT BRIDGE by David McCullough PATRIOTIC GORE by Edmund Wilson SAMUEL JOHNSON by Walter Jackson Bate THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
by Thomas West 22. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE by Carl L. Becker COGNITIVE THERAPY AND THE EMOTIONAL DISORDERS by Aaron T. Beck DEATH by GOVERNMENT by R. J. Rummel A ROOM OF ONES OWN by Virginia Woolf LONGITUDE by Dava Sobel ORDINARILY SACRED by Lynda Sexson SPEAK, MEMORY by Vladimir Nabokov THE ART OF MEMORY by Frances Yates DUMBING US DOWN by John Taylor Gatto THE GOLDEN BOUGH by James Frazer UNDAUNTED COURAGE: MERIWETHER LEWIS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST by Stephen E. Ambrose A MODERN PROPHET by Harold Klemp THE FLUTE OF GOD by Paul Twitchell REAL PRESENCES by George Steiner OUT OF AFRICA by Isak Dinesen WAYS OF SEEING by John Berger THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY: THE BETRAYAL OF LIBERTY ON AMERICAS CAMPUSES by Alan Charles Kors PROPERTY MATTERS: HOW PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE UNDER ASSAULT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE by James V. De Long STORMING HEAVEN by Jay Stevens THE TEXAN by C. S. Barrios HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by George Orwell THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by Williams James HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS by Darrell Huff BUT IS IT TRUE? by Aaron Wildavsky A MATHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER by John Allen Paulos ANATOMY OF CRITICISM by Northrop Frye THE MAINSPRING OF HUMAN PROGRESS by Henry Grady Weaver POPULAR
SUGGEST A BOOK Know of a great published book you'd like to see us add to our library? Let us know.
23.
23.
24.
25.
24.
READING GUIDES Looking to read a classic for your next book club selection? Click here to find reading guides for Modern Library titles.
26.
25.
27.
26.
28.
27.
29.
28.
TAGS
30.
29.
The Korean War The Merry Wives of Windsor... The Only Game In Town 3 Days Before the Shooting... Julius Caesar Dusk and Other Stories The Feminist Promise Hearts Touched By Fire
30.
31.
31.
32.
32.
33.
34.
33.
35.
34.
36.
35.
37.
36.
38.
37.
39.
38.
40.
39.
41.
42.
40.
43.
41.
44.
42.
45.
43.
46.
44.
47.
45.
48.
46.
49.
50.
47.
51.
48.
52.
THE RIGHT STUFF by Tom Wolfe EMINENT VICTORIANS by Lytton Strachey WORKING by Studs Terkel DARKNESS VISIBLE by William Styron THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION by Lionel Trilling THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Winston Churchill OUT OF AFRICA by Isak Dinesen JEFFERSON AND HIS TIME by Dumas Malone IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN by William Carlos Williams CADILLAC DESERT by Marc Reisner THE HOUSE OF MORGAN by Ron Chernow THE SWEET SCIENCE by A. J. Liebling THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES by Karl Popper THE ART OF MEMORY by Frances A. Yates RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM by R. H. Tawney A PREFACE TO MORALS by Walter Lippmann THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE by Jonathan D. Spence THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS by Thomas S. Kuhn THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW by C. Vann Woodward THE RISE OF THE WEST by William H. McNeill THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS by Elaine Pagels JAMES JOYCE by Richard Ellmann FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by Cecil Woodham-Smith THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY by Paul Fussell THE CITY IN HISTORY by Lewis Mumford BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM by James M. McPherson WHY WE CANT WAIT by Martin Luther King by Jr. THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT by Edmund Morris STUDIES IN ICONOLOGY by Erwin Panofsky THE FACE OF BATTLE by John Keegan
49.
MODERN TIMES by Paul Johnson MEN TO MATCH MY MOUNTAINS by Irving Stone THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by Henry Adams THE GREAT BRIDGE by David McCullough AMERICAN GAY by Stephen O. Murray THE DOUBLE HELIX by James D. Watson THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by Frank Kermode THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS by Elaine Pagels EROS THE BITTERSWEET by Anne Carson THE WESTERN CANON by Harold Bloom THE WHITE GODDESS by Robert Graves HEALING OUR WORLD by Mary Ruwart SILENT SPRING by Rachel Carson PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by Annie Dillard SEXUAL PERSONAE by Camille Paglia THINK AND GROW RICH by Napoleon Hill A LIFE OF ONES OWN by David Kelley DOORS OF PERCEPTION by Aldous Huxley THE DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM by Rose Wilder Lane MORE LIBERTY MEANS LESS GOVERNMENT by Walter Williams LIBERTARIANISM: A PRIMER by David Boaz BEYOND LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE by William Maddox and Stuart Lilie A CONFLICT OF VISIONS: IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF POLITICAL STRUGGLES by Thomas Sowell PARLIAMENT OF WHORES by P. J. ORourke SEPARATING SCHOOL AND STATE: HOW TO LIBERATE AMERICAS FAMILIES by Sheldon Richman THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES by Virginia Postrel THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE by William Strunk and E.B. White ORIENTALISM by Edward Said ECOTERROR by Ron Arnold WHY GOVERNMENT DOESNT WORK by Harry Browne
53.
50.
54.
51.
55.
52.
56.
53.
57.
54.
58.
55.
59.
56.
60.
57.
61.
58.
62.
59.
63.
60.
64.
61.
65.
62.
66.
63.
67.
64.
68.
65.
69.
66.
67.
70.
68.
71.
69.
72.
70.
73.
71.
74.
75.
72.
76.
73.
77.
74.
78.
75.
79.
76.
80.
77.
81.
78.
82.
THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL ENGLAND by George Dangerfield VERMEER by Lawrence Gowing A BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan WEST WITH THE NIGHT by Beryl Markham THIS BOYS LIFE by Tobias Wolff A MATHEMATICIANS APOLOGY by G. H. Hardy SIX EASY PIECES by Richard P. Feynman PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by Annie Dillard THE GOLDEN BOUGH by James George Frazer SHADOW AND ACT by Ralph Ellison THE POWER BROKER by Robert A. Caro THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION by Richard Hofstadter THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY by William Appleman Williams THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE by Herbert Croly IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER by Janet Malcolm THE TAMING OF CHANCE by Ian Hacking OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS by Anne Lamott MELBOURNE by Lord David Cecil
79.
OUT OF THE CRISIS by W. Edwards Deming NOT OUT OF AFRICA by Mary Lefkowitz THE END OF RACISM by Dinesh DSouza BEHIND THE MASK by Ian Buruma IN A DARK WOOD by Alston Chase PRIVATE PARTS by Howard Stern THE TELEPHONE BOOK by Avital Ronell THE MINUTEMAN: RESTORING AN ARMY OF THE PEOPLE by Gary Hart WAKING AND DREAMING by Joseph Hart THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD by Lana Cantrell RADICAL SON by David Horowitz UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN by Susan Sontag THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X A FEELING FOR BOOKS by Janice Radway THE HERO OF A THOUSAND FACES by Joseph Campbell THE JOB by William Burroughs SILENT INTERVIEWS by Samuel R. Delany SLATS GROBNIK AND SOME OTHER FRIENDS by Mike Royko RISE OF THE UNMELTABLE ETHNICS by Michael Novack REVERSE ANGLE by John Simon PLACING MOVIES by Jonathon Rosenbaum RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING by Patrick J. Buchanan
83.
80.
84.
81.
85.
82.
86.
83.
87.
84.
88.
85.
89.
86.
90.
87.
91.
88.
92.
89.
93.
90.
94.
91.
95.
92.
96.
93.
97.
94.
98.
95.
99.
96.
100.
97.
98.
99.
100.
WEBSITE Home The Library Top 100 Shakespeare Reading Guides Collectors About AtRandom.com Contact Us
RANDOMHOUSE.COM Advanced Search Author Events Newsletters & RSS Blogs & Podcasts Reading Groups Privacy Policy Terms of Use
SERVICES Randomhouse.biz Publisher Services Educator Services Random House Speakers Bureau Rights & Permissions Vendor Services Technology Services Affiliate Program Insight Web Service
SHOPPING View My Account View My Cart FAQs and Help Shipping Information Return Policy Children's Books Bestsellers Awards Signed Editions Personalized Books
ORDERING INFO eBooks U.S. Consumers International Consumers U.S. Booksellers International Booksellers Educators Libraries Corporations
