The Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All-Time

Given by The Guardian

100 Works 355,052 Books 4,384 Reviews ½ 4.0
Robert McCrum's guide to the 100 greatest nonfiction books in English, published in full December 2017. 

Please note that this is a separate list from Guardian 100 Greatest Non-Fiction, published June vis mere 2011.

The Guardian's Hannah Jane Parkinson offers A response to the 100 best nonfiction books list. McCrum explains How I chose my list of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. vis mindre
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) af Elizabeth Kolbert
1
Et år med magisk tænkning (2005) af Joan Didion
2
No logo (2000) af Naomi Klein
3
Birthday Letters (1998) af Ted Hughes
4
Arven fra min far (1995) af Barack Obama
5
Hawkings univers : fra big bang til sorte huller (1988) af Stephen Hawking
6
Kold marv (1979) af Tom Wolfe
7
Orientalisme : vestlige forestillinger om Orienten (1978) af Edward W. Said
8
Dispatches (1977) af Michael Herr
9
The Selfish Gene (1976) af Richard Dawkins
10
North (1975) af Seamus Heaney
11
Awakenings (1973) af Oliver Sacks
12
Den kvindelige eunuk (1970) af Germaine Greer
13
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock (1970) af Nik Cohn
14
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) af James D. Watson
15
Against Interpretation: And Other Essays (1966) af Susan Sontag
16
Ariel og andre digte (1965) af Sylvia Plath
17
The Feminine Mystique (1963) af Betty Friedan
18
The Making of the English Working Class (1963) af E. P. Thompson
19
Det tavse forår (1962) af Rachel Carson
20
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) af Thomas S. Kuhn
21
En sorgens dagbog : C.S. Lewis' optegnelser ved sin hustrus død (1961) af C. S. Lewis
22
The Elements of Style (1959) af William Jr. Strunk
23
Det rige samfund (1958) af John Kenneth Galbraith
24
The Uses of Literacy (1957) af Richard Hoggart
25
Notes of a Native Son (1955) af James Baldwin
26
The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956) af Kenneth Clark
27
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1953) af Isaiah Berlin
28
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (1953) af Samuel Beckett
29
Middelhavsmad (1950) af Elizabeth David
30
The Great Tradition (1948) af F. R. Leavis
31
Hitlers sidste dage (1962) af Hugh Trevor-Roper
32
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945) af Benjamin Spock
33
Hiroshima (Expanded edition) (1946) af John Hersey
34
Det åbne samfund og dets fjender (1962) af Karl Popper
35
Sort ungdom (1945) af Richard Wright
36
How to Cook a Wolf (1942) af M. F. K. Fisher
37
Enemies of promise (1938) af Cyril Connolly
38
The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) af George Orwell
39
The Road to Oxiana (1937) af Robert Byron
40
How to Win Friends & Influence People (1936) af Dale Carnegie
41
Testament of Youth (1933) af Vera Brittain
42
De unge Aar (1930) af Winston S. Churchill
43
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) af Robert Graves
44
A Room of One's Own (1929) af Virginia Woolf
45
The Waste Land (1922) af T. S. Eliot
46
Ti dage der rystede verden (1919) af John Reed
47
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) af John Maynard Keynes
48
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (1936) af H. L. Mencken
49
Eminent Victorians (1918) af Lytton Strachey
50
The Souls of Black Folk (1903) af W. E. B. Du Bois
51
De Profundis (1905) af Oscar Wilde
52
Religøse erfaringer (1902) af William James
53
Brief Lives (1898) af John Aubrey
54
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (1886) af Ulysses S. Grant
55
Life on the Mississippi (1883) af Mark Twain
56
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) af Robert Louis Stevenson
57
Nonsense Songs (1907) af Edward Lear
58
Culture and Anarchy (1867) af Matthew Arnold
59
Arternes Oprindelse ved Udvælgelse eller ved de heldigst stillede Formers Sejr i Kampen for Tilværelsen (1859) af Charles Darwin
60
Om friheden (1859) af John Stuart Mill
61
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) af Mary Seacole
62
The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) af Elizabeth Gaskell
63
Walden eller Livet i skovene (1854) af Henry David Thoreau
64
Roget's International Thesaurus (1852) af Peter Mark Roget
65
London Labour and the London Poor [4 Volume Set] (1967) af Henry Mayhew
66
Household Education (2011) af Harriet Martineau
67
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) af Frederick Douglass
68
Essays: First Series and Second Series (1934) af Ralph Waldo Emerson
69
Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) af Fanny Trollope
70
A Dictionary of the English Language (1967) af Noah Webster
71
En ¤opiumsdrankers bekendelser (1821) af Thomas De Quincey
72
Fortællinger fra Shakespeares verden (1807) af Charles Lamb
73
Travels in the Interior of Africa (1799) af Mungo Park
74
Selvbiografi (1791) af Benjamin Franklin
75
Et forsvar for kvindens rettigheder (1792) af Mary Wollstonecraft
76
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) af James Boswell
77
Tanker om den franske revolution (1790) af Edmund Burke
78
The Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) af Olaudah Equiano
79
Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1788) af Gilbert White
80
The Federalist Papers (1787) af Alexander Hamilton
81
The diary of Fanny Burney (1940) af Fanny Burney
82
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788) af Edward Gibbon
83
En undersøgelse af nationernes velstand, dens natur og årsager (1776) af Adam Smith
84
Common Sense (1776) af Thomas Paine
85
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) af Samuel Johnson
86
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) af David Hume
87
A Modest Proposal [essay] (1729) af Jonathan Swift
88
A Tour through England and Wales (1724) af Daniel Defoe
89
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) af John Locke
90
The Book of Common Prayer [1953] (1945) af Episcopal Church
91
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1825) af Samuel Pepys
92
Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus (1658) af Thomas Browne
93
Leviathan eller Materie, form & magt i et almenvel civilt og kirkeligt (1651) af Thomas Hobbes
94
Om Trykkefrihed (1644) af John Milton
95
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1923) af John Donne
96
The First Folio of Shakespeare (1623) af William Shakespeare
97
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) af Robert Burton
98
The history of the world (1820) af Sir Walter Raleigh
99
Holy Bible (King James Version) (1400) af King James Version
100

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