# Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction 1. [x] **The Education of Henry Adams** by Henry Adams 2. [ ] The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James 3. [ ] Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington 4. [ ] A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 5. [ ] Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 6. [ ] Selected Essays, 1917-1932 by T. S. Eliot 7. [x] **The Double Helix** by James D. Watson 8. [ ] Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 9. [ ] The American Language by H. L. Mencken 10. [ ] The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes 11. [ ] The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas 12. [ ] The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner 13. [x] **Black Boy** by Richard Wright (1987) 14. [ ] Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster 15. [ ] The Civil War by Shelby Foote 16. [ ] The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman 17. [ ] The Proper Study of Mankind by Isaiah Berlin 18. [ ] The Nature and Destiny of Man by Reinhold Neibuhr 19. [ ] Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin 20. [ ] The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein 21. [x] **The Elements of Style** by William Strunk and E. B. White (1992) 22. [ ] An American Dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal 23. [ ] Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russel 24. [x] **The Mismeasure of Man** by Stephen Jay Gould 25. [ ] The Mirror and the Lamp by Meyer Howard Abrams 26. [ ] The Art of the Soluble by Peter B. Medawar 27. [ ] The Ants by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson 28. [ ] A Theory of Justice by John Rawls 29. [ ] Art and Illusion by Ernest H. Gombrich 30. [ ] The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson 31. [ ] The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois 32. [ ] Principia Ethica by G. E. Moore 33. [ ] Philosophy and Civilization by John Dewey 34. [ ] On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Thompson 35. [ ] Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein 36. [ ] The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 37. [x] **The Making of the Atomic Bomb** by Richard Rhodes 38. [ ] Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West 39. [ ] Autobiographies by W. B. Yeats 40. [ ] Science and Civilization in China by Joseph Needham 41. [ ] Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves 42. [ ] Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 43. [x] **The Autobiography of Mark Twain** by Mark Twain 44. [ ] Children of Crisis by Robert Coles 45. [ ] A Study of History by Arnold Toynbee 46. [ ] The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith 47. [ ] Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson 48. [x] **The Great Bridge** by David McCullough 49. [ ] Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson 50. [ ] Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate 51. [ ] The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X 52. [x] **The Right Stuff** by Tom Wolfe 53. [ ] Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey 54. [ ] Working by Studs Terkel 55. [ ] Darkness Visible by William Styron 56. [ ] The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling 57. [ ] The Second World War by Winston Churchill 58. [ ] Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen 59. [x] **Jefferson and His Time** by Duman Malone 60. [ ] In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams 61. [ ] Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner 62. [ ] The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow 63. [x] **The Sweet Science** by A. J. Liebling 64. [ ] The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karp Popper 65. [ ] The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates 66. [ ] Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney 67. [ ] A Preface to Morals by Walter Lippmann 68. [ ] The Gate of Heavenly Peace by Jonathan D. Spence 69. [ ] The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn 70. [ ] The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward 71. [ ] The Rise of the West by William H. McNeill 72. [ ] The Ghnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 73. [ ] James Joyce by Richard Ellmann 74. [ ] Florence Nightingale by Cecil Woodham-Smith 75. [x] **The Great War and Modern Memory** by Paul Fussell 76. [ ] The City in History by Lewis Mumford 77. [ ] Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson 78. [ ] Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr. 79. [x] **The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt** by Edmund Morris 80. [ ] Studies in Iconology by Erwin Panofsky 81. [ ] The Face of Battle by John Keegan 82. [ ] The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Danderfield 83. [ ] Vermeer by Lawrence Gowing 84. [ ] A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan 85. [ ] West with the Night by Beryl Markham 86. [ ] This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff 87. [ ] A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy 88. [ ] Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman 89. [x] **Pilgrim at Tinker Creek** by Annie Dillard 90. [ ] The Golden Bough by James George Frazer 91. [ ] Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison 92. [x] **The Power Broker** by Robert A. Caro 93. [ ] The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter 94. [ ] The Contours of American History by William Appleman Williams 95. [ ] The Promise of American Life by Herbert Croly 96. [ ] In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 97. [ ] The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm 98. [ ] The Taming of Chance by Ian Hacking 99. [ ] Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott 100. [ ] Melbourne by Lord David Cecil