Best Non-Fiction Books of the Twentieth Century

(Books that made an impact on the lives of Americans. Selected by
publishers and readers.)

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Acheson, Dean - Present at the Creation
Ambrose, Stephen E. - Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the America West
Baldwin, James - Notes of a Native Son
Bate, Walter Jackson - Samuel Johnson
Berger, John - Ways of Seeing
Bloom, Harold - The Western Canon
Bovard, James - Freedom in Chains
Browne, Harry - Why Government Doesn't Work
Buchanan, Patrick J. - Right from the Beginning
Caro, Robert A. - The Power Broker
Chase, Alston - In a Dark Wood
Chernow, Ron - The House of Morgan
Churchill, Winston - Memoirs of the Second World War
Dillard, Annie - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
D'Souza, Dinesh - The End of Racism
De Long, James V. - Property Matters: How Property Rights are Under Assault and Why You Should Care
Du Bois, W. E. B - The Souls of Black Folks
Feynman, Richard P. - Six Easy Pieces
Frazer, James George - The Golden Bough
Friedman, Milton - Free to Choose
Fussell, Paul - The Great War and Modern Memory
Haley, Alex and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Hill, Napoleon - Think and Grow Rich
Horowitz, David - Radical Son
James, William - The Varieties of Religious Experience
Johnson, Paul - Modern Times
Keegan, John - The Face of Battle
King, Martin Luther, Jr. - Why We Can't Wait
Kors, Alan Charles - The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on American's Campuses
Kuhn, Thomas S. - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Lamott, Anne - Operating Instructions
Lefkowitz, Mary - Not Out of Africa
Lott, John R. - More Guns, Less Crime
McCullough, David - The Great Bridge
McNeill, William H. - The Rise of the West
McPherson, James M. - Battle Cry of Freedom
Markham, Beryl - West with the Night
Nabokov, Vladimir - Speak, Memory; an Autobiography Revisited
O'Rourke, P. J. - Parliament of Whores
Orwell, George - Homage to Catalonia
Pagels, Elaine - The Gnostic Gospels
Paglia, Camille - Sexual Personae
Paulos, John Allen - A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Radway, Janice - A Feeling for Books
Rand, Ayn - The Virtue of Selfishness
Rawls, John - A Theory of Justice
Rhodes, Richard - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richman, Sheldon - Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's Families
Ronell, Avital - The Telephone Book
Royko, Mike - Slats Grobnik and Some Other Friends
Sheehan, Neil - A Bright Shining Lie
Simon, Julian - The Ultimate Resource
Sobel, Dava - Longitude
Sontag, Susan - Under the Sign of Saturn
Sowell, Thomas - A Conflict of Visions
Spence, Jonathan D. - The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Strachey, Lytton - Eminent Victorians
Strunk, William and E. B. White - The Elements of Style
Styron, William - Darkness Visible
Thomas, Lewis - The Lives of a Cell
Twain, Mark - The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Washington, Booker T. - Up From Slavery
West, Rebecca - Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Wiseman, Bruce - Psychiatry: The Ultimate Betrayal
Woodham-Smith, Cecil - Florence Nightingale
Wolfe, Tom - The Right Stuff
Wolff, Tobias - This Boy's Life
Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One's Own
Wright, Richard - Black Boy