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A Century of Best Adult Non-Fiction Books
1900-1909
The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud (1900)
1910-1919
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartes, Henry Adams (1913)
1920-1929
Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Albert Einstein (1920)
1930-1939
The Joy of Cooking, Irma Rombauer (1931)
Selected Essays, 1917-1932, T.S. Eliot (1932)
1940-1949
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Carl Sandburg (1940)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia, Rebecca West (1941)
The Abolition of Man: Or, Reflections on Education…, C.S. Lewis (1943)
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, Esther Forbes (1943)
The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich A. Hayek (1944)
Western Star, Stephen Vincent Benet (1944)
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (1947)
The Second World War Series, Winston Churchill (1948)
The Seven Story Mountain, Thomas Merton (1948)
1950-1959
Complete Poems, Carl Sandburg (1951)
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Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis (1952)
Henry James, Leon Edel (1953)
A Stillness at Appomattox, Bruce Catton (1954)
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays, Albert Camus (1955)
The Civil War: A Narrative, Shelby Foote (1958)
1960-1969
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson (1962)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn (1962)
Pictures from Brueghel, William Carlos Williams (1963)
The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman (1963)
Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabakov (1966)
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist…, William H. Goetzmann (1967)
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, David Brion Davis (1967)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe (1968)
Rousseau And revolution, The Tenth and Concluding Volume, Will and Ariel Durant (1968)
The Double Helix, James D. Watson (1968)
Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer (1969)
Civilisation: A Personal View, Kenneth Clark (1969)
1970-1979
Gandhi’s Truth, Erik H. Erikson (1970)
The Rising Sun, John Toland (1971)
Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945, Barbara W. Tuchman (1972)
Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III, Robert Coles (1973)
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(1973)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard (1975)
Lamy of Santa Fe, Paul Horgan (1976)
Lee, Douglas Freeman (1977)
Essays of E.B. White, E.B. White (1977)
The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling, Angus Wilson (1977)
The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan (1978)
Now and Then, Robert Penn (1979)
On Human Nature, Edward O. Wilson (1979)
1980-1989
Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Band, Douglas R. Hofstadter (1980)
Been in the Storm So Long, Leon F. Litwack (1980)
Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works, Flannery O’Conner (1981)
Mary Chestnut’s Civil War, C. Vann Woodward, editor (1982)
The Collected Poems, Sylvia Plath (1982)
The Last Lion: Winston Churchill, Vol. 1, William Manchester (1983)
Is There No Place On Earth For Me?, Susan Sheehan (1983)
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two, Studs Terkel (1985)
The Closing of the American Mind, Allen David Bloom (1987)
Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945, David Eisenhower (1987)
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian…, David J. Garrow (1987)
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes (1988)
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, Neil Sheehan (1989)
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963, Taylor Branch (1989)
Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era, James M. McPherson (1989)
1990-1999
The Second World War, John Keegan (1990)
In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines, Stanley Karnow (1990)
And Their Children After Them, Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (1990)
A Midwife’s Tale, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1991)
The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama (1992)
Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories, Joseph Mitchell (1992)
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, Daniel Yergin (1992)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, Garry Wills (1993)
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year, Anne Lamott (1993)
The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood (1993)
Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire, David Remnick (1994)
The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time, Jonathan Weiner (1995)
Complete Stories, Dorothy Parker (1995)
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Doris Kearns Goodwin (1995)
The Simple Truth, Philip Levine (1995)
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Jack. N. Rakove (1997)
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, Lisel Mueller (1997)
Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, Richard Kluger (1997)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond (1998)
Annals of the Former World, John McPhee (1999)
The Best American Short Stories of the Century, John Updike, editor (1999)
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2000-Present
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong (2000)
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, John W. Dower (2000)
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, David M. Kennedy (2000)
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, Joseph J. Ellis (2001)
Different Hours, Stephen Dunn (2001)
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, Louis Menand (2002)
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle…, Diane McWhorter (2002)
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Rick Atkinson (2003)
“A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power (2003)
Moy Sand and Gravel, Paul Muldoon (2003)
Walking to Martha’s Vineyard, Franz Wright (2004)
Gulag: A History, Anne Applebaum (2004)
Ghost Wars, Steve Coll (2005)
Washington’s Crossing, David Hackett Fischer (2005)
The Assassins’ Gate: American in Iraq, George Packer (2005)
Delights & Shadows, Ted Kooser (2005)
Late Wife, Claudia Emerson (2006)
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya, Caroline Elkins (2006)
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright (2006)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan (2006)
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, Gene Roberts (2007)
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The Looming Tower: AL-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright (2007)
The World Without Us, Alan Weissman (2007)
Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey (2007)
Pictures at a Revolution, Michael Harris (2008)
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, Daniel Walker Howe (2008)
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Or, the Murder at Road Hill House, Kate Summerscale (2008)
Time and Materials, Robert Haas (2008)
Zeitoun, Dave Eggers (2009)
The Shadow of Sirius, W.S. Merwin (2009)
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, Annette Gordon-Reed (2009)
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans…, Douglas A. Blackmon (2009)
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed (2010)
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Eric Foner (2011)
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, Kay Ryan (2011)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee (2001)
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