List: Modern Library Top 100 Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century
The Education of Henry Adams : An Autobiography (1918) - Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) (Grade:B+)
Once More Around the Park : A Baseball Reader (1991) - Roger Angell (1921-) (Grade:A+)The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1951) - Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) (Grade:A+)The Unmaking of a Mayor (1966) - William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-) (Grade:A+)The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) - Robert A. Caro (-) (Grade:A+)The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935) - George Dangerfield (1904-1986) (Grade:A-)
Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek (1974) - Annie Dillard (1945-) (Grade:A)
The End of History and the Last Man (1992) - Francis Fukuyama (10/27/1952-) (Grade:A+)The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) - William James (1842-1910) (Grade:F)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) - Thomas S. Kuhn (1929-1996) (Grade:A)
The Journalist and the Murderer (1990) - Janet Malcolm (-) (Grade:A+)West With the Night (1941) - Beryl Markham (1902-1986) (Grade:A+)The Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972) - David McCullough (1933-) (Grade:A+)The City in History (1961) - Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) (Grade:D)
Speak, Memory : An Autobiography Revisited (1966) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) (Grade:A)
A Theory of Justice (1971) - John Rawls (1921-) (Grade:F)
The Elements of Style (1959) - William Strunk Jr. (1869-1946) (Grade:A+)The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) - Lewis Thomas (1913-1993) (Grade:C)
Up From Slavery (1901) - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) (Grade:A)
The Right Stuff (1979) - Tom Wolfe (1931-) (Grade:A+)The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Malcolm X (1925-1965) (Grade:A+)4) A Room of One's Own (1929) - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) (Grade:C+)
5) Silent Spring (1962) - Rachel Carson (1907-1964) (Grade:F)
9) The American Language (1936) - H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) (Grade:A)
10) The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) - John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) (Grade:F)
13) Black Boy (1945) - Richard Wright (1908-1960) (Grade:C)
14) Aspects of the Novel (1927) - E.M. Forster (1879-1970) (Grade:A-)
24) The Mismeasure of Man (1981) - Stephen Jay Gould (-) (Grade:F)
41) Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) - Robert Graves (1895-1985) (Grade:C-)
42) Homage to Catalonia (1938) - George Orwell (06/25/1903-1949) (Grade:A)
44) Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear (1967) - Robert Coles (-) (Grade:C)
46) The Affluent Society (1958) - John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) (Grade:F)
54) Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974) - Studs Terkel (1912-) (Grade:C-)
55) Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (1990) - William Styron (1925-) (Grade:C)
58) Out of Africa (1937) - Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) (Grade:B+)
70) The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955) - C. Vann Woodward (1908-) (Grade:B)
84) A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) - Neil Sheehan (-) (Grade:C)
87) A Mathematician's Apology (1940) - G. H. Hardy (1877-1947) (Grade:C+)
93) The American Political Tradition: and the Men Who Made It (1948) - Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) (Grade:F)
