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