Ranking | Name of Novel | Author(s) |
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 by Jr. |
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 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 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 Strache |
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 | THE 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 by 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 | THE GOLDEN BOUGH | James George Frazer |
90 | THE POWER BROKER | Robert A. Caro |
91 | THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION | Richard Hofstadter |
92 | THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY | William Appleman Williams |
93 | THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE | Herbert Croly |
94 | IN COLD BLOOD | Truman Capote |
95 | THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER | Janet Malcolm |
96 | THE TAMING OF CHANCE | Ian Hacking |
97 | OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS | Anne Lamott |
98 | MELBOURNE | Lord David Cecil |
99 | THE GINGER MAN | J.P. Donleavy |
100 | THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS | Booth Tarkington |