Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction

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]

# Year Title Author
1 1918 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Brooks Adams
2 1902 The Varieties of Religious Experience William James
3 1901 Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington
4 1929 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf
5 1962 Silent Spring Rachel Carson
6 1932 Selected Essays, 1917–1932 T.S. Eliot
7 1968 The Double Helix James D. Watson
8 1951 Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov
9 1919 The American Language H.L. Mencken
10 1936 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.