Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction

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The Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction was created in 1998 by the Modern Library. The list is what it considers to be the 100 best non-fiction books published since 1900.

The list includes memoirs, textbooks, polemics, and collections of essays. A separate list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century was created the same year. [1]

The following table shows the top ten books from the editors' list: [2]

#YearTitleAuthor
11918 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Brooks Adams
21902 The Varieties of Religious Experience William James
31901 Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington
41929 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf
51962 Silent Spring Rachel Carson
61932 Selected Essays, 1917–1932 T. S. Eliot
71968 The Double Helix James D. Watson
81951 Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov
91919 The American Language H. L. Mencken
101936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money John Maynard Keynes

References

  1. "Modern Library Top 100 - Penguin Random House". sites.prh.com.
  2. "Modern Library Top 100 - Penguin Random House". sites.prh.com.