Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books

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A Room of One's Own
af Virginia Woolf
12,386 medlemmer
168 anmeldelser
4.1
4 Members
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The Elements of Style
af William Jr. Strunk
19,869 medlemmer
192 anmeldelser
4.2
5 Members
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Forklaringer
aulsmith : There was much in this book to like, but I've found other books on writing just as helpful, if not more so.
3
Med koldt blod
af Truman Capote
23,700 medlemmer
466 anmeldelser
4.1
4 Members
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4
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
af Thomas S. Kuhn
8,076 medlemmer
92 anmeldelser
4
3 Members
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Forklaringer
aulsmith: But read it carefully. It's not as post-modern as some people think
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Notes of a Native Son
af James Baldwin
2,006 medlemmer
29 anmeldelser
4.2
3 Members
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The Souls of Black Folk
af W. E. B. Du Bois
5,244 medlemmer
68 anmeldelser
4.2
3 Members
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7
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
af James D. Watson
3,026 medlemmer
44 anmeldelser
3.8
2 Members
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8
The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
af Isaiah Berlin
713 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
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Forklaringer
aulsmith: Berlin is great, never satisfied with easy answers (or some times any answer)
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Selected Essays
af T. S. Eliot
393 medlemmer
4
2 Members
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10
Up from Slavery
af Booker T. Washington
4,253 medlemmer
38 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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Aspects of the Novel
af E. M. Forster
2,285 medlemmer
39 anmeldelser
3.8
2 Members
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12
James Joyce
af Richard Ellmann
1,309 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
2 Members
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13
Kold marv
af Tom Wolfe
4,659 medlemmer
72 anmeldelser
4.2
3 Members
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Forklaringer
aulsmith : This was an interesting book, but too cynical for my taste.
14
Kanonerne i august 1914 : beretningen om krigsudbruddet og de første kæmpeslag der blev afgørende for verdenshistoriens forløb
af Barbara W. Tuchman
6,594 medlemmer
125 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
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15
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
af Studs Terkel
2,121 medlemmer
20 anmeldelser
4.2
2 Members
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16
The Civil War (complete 14 volumes)
af Shelby Foote
25 medlemmer
2 Members
deldevries, peach3009
17
Den afrikanske Farm
af Isak Dinesen
5,219 medlemmer
98 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
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18
The Education of Henry Adams
af Henry Adams
2,821 medlemmer
44 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
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19
The Journalist and the Murderer
af Janet Malcolm
674 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
3.8
2 Members
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20
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
af William Styron
3,033 medlemmer
82 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
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21
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
af Malcolm X
9,768 medlemmer
123 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
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22
This Boy's Life
af Tobias Wolff
2,936 medlemmer
46 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
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23
Religøse erfaringer
af William James
5,184 medlemmer
36 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
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24
Det tavse forår
af Rachel Carson
6,507 medlemmer
97 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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Forklaringer
aulsmith : This is getting very dated. A silent spring is certainly not our greatest ecological worry.
25
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
af Vladimir Nabokov
3,604 medlemmer
44 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
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26
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
af H. L. Mencken
707 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
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27
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
af John Maynard Keynes
1,759 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
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28
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
af Lewis Thomas
2,067 medlemmer
31 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
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29
The Frontier in American History
af Frederick Jackson Turner
504 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
3.9
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30
Sort ungdom
af Richard Wright
5,195 medlemmer
68 anmeldelser
4
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31
The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation
af Reinhold Niebuhr
490 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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32
Alice B. Toklas' selvbiografi
af Gertrude Stein
2,681 medlemmer
43 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
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33
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
af Gunnar Myrdal
140 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
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34
Principia Mathematica (3-volume set)
af Alfred North Whitehead
73 medlemmer
4
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35
The Mismeasure of Man [Revised & Expanded]
af Stephen Jay Gould
1,832 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
4.1
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36
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
af Meyer H. Abrams
564 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
4
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37
The Art of the Soluble: Creativity and Originality in Science
af P. B. Medawar
71 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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38
The Ants
af Bert Hölldobler
351 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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39
A Theory of Justice
af John Rawls
3,144 medlemmer
24 anmeldelser
3.9
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40
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
af E. H. Gombrich
1,093 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4
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41
The Making of the English Working Class
af E. P. Thompson
1,778 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
4.1
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42
Principia Ethica
af G. E. Moore
675 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
3.8
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43
Philosophy and Civilization
af John Dewey
30 medlemmer
3
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44
On Growth and Form
af D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
309 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4.2
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45
Perspektiver og udsyn
af Albert Einstein
1,955 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
3.9
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46
The Age of Jackson
af Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
883 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4
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47
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
af Richard Rhodes
3,515 medlemmer
53 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
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48
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia
af Rebecca West
1,696 medlemmer
23 anmeldelser
4.1
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49
Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
af William Butler Yeats
245 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.9
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50
Science and Civilization in China (Science and Civilisation in China)
af Joseph Needham
16 medlemmer
5
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51
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
af Robert Graves
3,690 medlemmer
66 anmeldelser
4
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52
Hyldest til Catalonien
af George Orwell
6,169 medlemmer
104 anmeldelser
4.1
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53
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
af Mark Twain
886 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
4.1
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54
Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
af Robert Coles
153 medlemmer
½ 4.6
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55
A study of history
af Arnold Joseph Toynbee
271 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
3.2
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56
Det rige samfund
af John Kenneth Galbraith
1,720 medlemmer
13 anmeldelser
3.8
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57
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
af Dean Acheson
468 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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58
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
af David McCullough
2,708 medlemmer
58 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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59
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
af Edmund Wilson
400 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4.1
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60
Samuel Johnson
af W. Jackson Bate
401 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
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61
Eminent Victorians
af Lytton Strachey
1,767 medlemmer
32 anmeldelser
3.8
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62
The Liberal Imagination
af Lionel Trilling
530 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.8
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63
Den anden Verdenskrig I-IV
af Winston S. Churchill
1,471 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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64
Jefferson and His Time (6 Volume Set)
af Dumas Malone
281 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4.2
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65
In the American Grain
af William Carlos William
517 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.9
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66
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
af Marc Reisner
1,746 medlemmer
35 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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67
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
af Ron Chernow
1,435 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
3.9
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68
Det åbne samfund og dets fjender
af Karl Popper
895 medlemmer
13 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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69
The Art of Memory
af Frances A. Yates
1,471 medlemmer
15 anmeldelser
4
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70
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Study
af R. H. Tawney
764 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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71
A Preface to Morals
af Walter Lippmann
372 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.9
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72
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution
af Jonathan D. Spence
432 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.7
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73
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
af C. Vann Woodward
1,075 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4
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74
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
af William H. McNeill
707 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
4.2
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75
Tabernes evangelier
af Elaine Pagels
4,896 medlemmer
51 anmeldelser
3.9
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76
Florence Nightingale
af Cecil Woodham-Smith
307 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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77
The Great War and Modern Memory
af Paul Fussell
2,088 medlemmer
27 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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78
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
af James M. McPherson
5,374 medlemmer
76 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
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79
Why We Can't Wait
af Martin Luther King, Jr.
1,492 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
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80
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
af Edmund Morris
4,053 medlemmer
49 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
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81
Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance
af Erwin Panofsky
446 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.1
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82
The Face of Battle
af John Keegan
2,762 medlemmer
26 anmeldelser
4
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83
The Strange Death of Liberal England
af George Dangerfield
455 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
4.1
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84
Vermeer (Barnes & Noble Art Series)
af Lawrence Gowing
109 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.3
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85
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
af Neil Sheehan
2,156 medlemmer
33 anmeldelser
4.2
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86
Med natten mod vest
af Beryl Markham
3,602 medlemmer
126 anmeldelser
4.1
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87
A Mathematician's Apology
af G. H. Hardy
1,374 medlemmer
26 anmeldelser
3.8
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88
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
af Richard Feynman
3,857 medlemmer
38 anmeldelser
4.1
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89
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
af Annie Dillard
5,469 medlemmer
105 anmeldelser
4.2
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90
Shadow and Act
af Ralph Ellison
425 medlemmer
4
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91
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
af Robert A. Caro
2,912 medlemmer
47 anmeldelser
½ 4.6
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92
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made it
af Richard Hofstadter
1,246 medlemmer
13 anmeldelser
3.9
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93
The Contours of American History
af William Appleman Williams
137 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.5
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94
The Promise of American Life
af Herbert Croly
131 medlemmer
½ 2.6
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95
The Taming of Chance
af Ian Hacking
246 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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96
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
af Anne Lamott
1,701 medlemmer
32 anmeldelser
4.1
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97
The Young Melbourne
af David Cecil
56 medlemmer
2
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98
The Sweet Science
af A. J. Liebling
255 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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Forklaringer
aulsmith : I love Liebling's writing, but even he couldn't get me to read about boxing.
99
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
af Lewis Mumford
1,401 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
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Forklaringer
aulsmith : This has really been out-dated by more modern archeology.
100
The Golden Bough [set - 15 volumes]
af James George Frazer
23 medlemmer
Member
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Forklaringer
aulsmith : Even the abridged version is more than most people want to know.