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Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Non-Fiction Books
1.
The Elements of Style
by:
William Strunk Jr.
4.18 avg rating β 86,241 ratings
2.
In Cold Blood
by:
Truman Capote
4.09 avg rating β 710,371 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by:
Maya Angelou
4.30 avg rating β 568,955 ratings
4.
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by:
Eric Schlosser
3.75 avg rating β 206,251 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by:
Michael Pollan
4.19 avg rating β 208,898 ratings
6.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by:
Stephen King
4.34 avg rating β 310,130 ratings
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale I: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by:
Art Spiegelman
4.39 avg rating β 365,587 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by:
Bill Bryson
4.07 avg rating β 436,122 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,040 ratings
10.
Hiroshima
by:
John Hersey
4.04 avg rating β 86,439 ratings
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Silent Spring
by:
Rachel Carson
4.05 avg rating β 53,317 ratings
12.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by:
Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating β 285,183 ratings
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by:
Robert M. Pirsig
3.78 avg rating β 241,456 ratings
14.
A Room of Oneβs Own
by:
Virginia Woolf
4.22 avg rating β 246,471 ratings
15.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.65 avg rating β 194,442 ratings
16.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating β 99,681 ratings
17.
A Brief History of Time
by:
Stephen Hawking
4.21 avg rating β 467,020 ratings
18.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by:
Dave Eggers
3.69 avg rating β 182,716 ratings
19.
Out of Africa
by:
Isak Dinesen
3.91 avg rating β 46,908 ratings
20.
All the Presidentβs Men
by:
Carl Bernstein
4.18 avg rating β 56,974 ratings
21.
Our Bodies, Ourselves
by:
Boston Women's Health Book Collective
4.37 avg rating β 7,461 ratings
22.
A Peopleβs History of the United States: 1492 - Present
by:
Howard Zinn
4.08 avg rating β 259,693 ratings
23.
Black Boy
by:
Richard Wright
4.09 avg rating β 55,306 ratings
24.
The Selfish Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating β 189,060 ratings
25.
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating β 28,864 ratings
26.
The Feminine Mystique
by:
Betty Friedan
3.87 avg rating β 30,217 ratings
27.
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
by:
Richard Nelson Bolles
3.71 avg rating β 16,869 ratings
28.
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
by:
Joseph Campbell
4.13 avg rating β 44,163 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by:
William L. Shirer
4.22 avg rating β 144,581 ratings
30.
A Moveable Feast
by:
Ernest Hemingway
4.02 avg rating β 162,861 ratings
31.
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by:
Barack Obama
3.94 avg rating β 229,613 ratings
32.
The Joy of Sex
by:
Alex Comfort
3.62 avg rating β 3,006 ratings
33.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by:
Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating β 78,159 ratings
34.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
by:
Julia Child
4.25 avg rating β 75,793 ratings
35.
The Gnostic Gospels
by:
Elaine Pagels
3.94 avg rating β 19,345 ratings
36.
The Beauty Myth
by:
Naomi Wolf
3.91 avg rating β 30,479 ratings
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
by:
Dale Carnegie
4.22 avg rating β 1,110,790 ratings
38.
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
by:
Robert Hughes
4.09 avg rating β 10,199 ratings
39.
Baby and Child Care
by:
Benjamin Spock
3.80 avg rating β 2,212 ratings
40.
The Double Helix
by:
James D. Watson
3.84 avg rating β 19,753 ratings
41.
Homage to Catalonia
by:
George Orwell
4.09 avg rating β 68,323 ratings
42.
The Executioner's Song
by:
Norman Mailer
4.05 avg rating β 22,788 ratings
43.
Alcoholics Anonymous
by:
Alcoholics Anonymous
4.49 avg rating β 11,593 ratings
44.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by:
Joan Didion
4.19 avg rating β 78,750 ratings
45.
No Logo
by:
Naomi Klein
3.89 avg rating β 32,436 ratings
46.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by:
James Agee
3.97 avg rating β 3,971 ratings
47.
The Making of the President 1960
by:
Theodore H. White
4.15 avg rating β 7,922 ratings
48.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.52 avg rating β 27,076 ratings
49.
The Naked Ape
by:
Desmond Morris
3.93 avg rating β 11,900 ratings
50.
Notes of a Native Son
by:
James Baldwin
4.37 avg rating β 23,282 ratings
51.
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
by:
Studs Terkel
4.24 avg rating β 5,742 ratings
52.
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
by:
Lewis Thomas
4.14 avg rating β 10,344 ratings
53.
Speak, Memory
by:
Vladimir Nabokov
4.08 avg rating β 17,396 ratings
54.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by:
Gertrude Stein
3.54 avg rating β 13,203 ratings
55.
The Best and the Brightest
by:
David Halberstam
4.27 avg rating β 12,645 ratings
56.
The Civil War: A Narrative
by:
Shelby Foote
4.53 avg rating β 8,028 ratings
57.
GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by:
Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.29 avg rating β 51,681 ratings
58.
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
by:
Margaret Mead
3.55 avg rating β 3,149 ratings
59.
Capitalism and Freedom
by:
Milton Friedman
3.90 avg rating β 14,798 ratings
60.
Manchild in the Promised Land
by:
Claude Brown
4.28 avg rating β 9,113 ratings
61.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by:
Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.34 avg rating β 111,145 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by:
Thomas S. Kuhn
4.03 avg rating β 29,126 ratings
63.
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.36 avg rating β 36,106 ratings
64.
Why We Can't Wait
by:
Martin Luther King Jr.
4.54 avg rating β 8,975 ratings
65.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
by:
David Foster Wallace
4.14 avg rating β 52,663 ratings
66.
Ball Four
by:
Jim Bouton
4.05 avg rating β 20,737 ratings
67.
Unsafe at Any Speed
by:
Ralph Nader
3.69 avg rating β 259 ratings
68.
Orientalism
by:
Edward W. Said
4.13 avg rating β 28,509 ratings
69.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
by:
Susan Sontag
4.14 avg rating β 9,996 ratings
70.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
by:
John Maynard Keynes
3.85 avg rating β 5,679 ratings
70.
The Closing of the American Mind
by:
Allan Bloom
3.76 avg rating β 5,868 ratings
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God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
by:
William F. Buckley Jr.
3.71 avg rating β 2,021 ratings
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The Other America: Poverty in the United States
by:
Michael Harrington
4.06 avg rating β 1,184 ratings
74.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by:
Hannah Arendt
4.30 avg rating β 13,914 ratings
75.
Dispatches
by:
Michael Herr
4.22 avg rating β 21,214 ratings
76.
The American Way of Death Revisited
by:
Jessica Mitford
3.97 avg rating β 2,582 ratings
77.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by:
Samuel P. Huntington
3.78 avg rating β 13,748 ratings
78.
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
by:
William Manchester
4.39 avg rating β 11,881 ratings
79.
Animal Liberation
by:
Peter Singer
4.30 avg rating β 11,079 ratings
79.
The End of History and the Last Man
by:
Francis Fukuyama
3.61 avg rating β 7,615 ratings
81.
Syntactic Structures
by:
Noam Chomsky
3.83 avg rating β 885 ratings
82.
On Human Nature
by:
Edward O. Wilson
4.14 avg rating β 3,567 ratings
83.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
by:
Richard Hofstadter
4.16 avg rating β 1,427 ratings
84.
The Conscience of a Conservative
by:
Barry M. Goldwater
3.83 avg rating β 3,632 ratings
85.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by:
Jane Jacobs
4.29 avg rating β 19,189 ratings
86.
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by:
Diane McWhorter
4.21 avg rating β 1,042 ratings
87.
The Nature and Destiny of Man, Vol 1
by:
Reinhold Niebuhr
4.16 avg rating β 127 ratings
88.
The Story of Art
by:
E.H. Gombrich
3.96 avg rating β 448,924 ratings
89.
How to Cook a Wolf
by:
M.F.K. Fisher
4.15 avg rating β 2,993 ratings
90.
A Theory of Justice
by:
John Rawls
3.95 avg rating β 13,399 ratings
91.
The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968
by:
Andrew Sarris
4.03 avg rating β 537 ratings
91.
A Child of the Century
by:
Ben Hecht
4.24 avg rating β 93 ratings
93.
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
by:
Alfred C. Kinsey
3.62 avg rating β 285 ratings
94.
What It Takes: The Way to the White House
by:
Richard Ben Cramer
4.41 avg rating β 3,144 ratings
95.
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
by:
Marshall McLuhan
4.10 avg rating β 4,051 ratings
96.
Within the Context of No Context
by:
George W.S. Trow
3.75 avg rating β 488 ratings
97.
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll
by:
Greil Marcus
4.04 avg rating β 3,544 ratings
98.
The Sweet Science
by:
A.J. Liebling
4.10 avg rating β 1,502 ratings
99.
The Great War and Modern Memory
by:
Paul Fussell
4.13 avg rating β 6,077 ratings
100.
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
by:
Benedict Anderson
4.11 avg rating β 15,875 ratings
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