Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century
202. 
The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers
by:
John C. Waugh
4.13 avg rating — 1,102 ratings 
204. 
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
by:
Pierre Bourdieu
4.16 avg rating — 3,482 ratings 206. 
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
by:
John Colapinto
4.04 avg rating — 7,895 ratings 207. 
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
by:
Anne Lamott
4.18 avg rating — 25,918 ratings 208. 
214. 
Revelations of the Medieval World (A History of Private Life, #2)
by:
Philippe Ariès
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 593 ratings 
218. 
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence
by:
Martha Minow
3.85 avg rating — 218 ratings 
223. 
Old English Syntax: 2 VolumesVolume I: Concord, the Parts of Speech, and the Sentence Volume II: Subordination, Independent Elements, and Element Order
by:
Bruce Mitchell
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
223. 
Finnish Radicals in Astoria, Oregon, 1904 1940: A Study in Immigrant Socialism it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
223. 
There's a Good Girl: Gender Stereotyping in the First Three Years of Life: A Diary 4.33 avg rating — 73 ratings
223. 
Latte Dreams: My one shot at coffee shop ownership
by:
Steve Williamson
4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings 234. 
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by:
Bernard Bailyn
4.05 avg rating — 4,353 ratings 
234. 
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
by:
Bertram M. Gross
3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings 
234. 
234. 
God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School
by:
Alan Peshkin
3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings 234. 
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
by:
Geoffrey C. Ward
4.09 avg rating — 229 ratings 
244. 
Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon
by:
N.R. Ker
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
249. 
Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg: Edited, with Introduction, Bibliography, Notes, Glossary, and Appendices 4.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
249. 
Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History Of Psychotherapy
by:
Philip Cushman
4.27 avg rating — 147 ratings 249. 
Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution
by:
Kenneth Cloke
4.26 avg rating — 61 ratings 
249. 
Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
by:
Gordon Thomas
4.07 avg rating — 1,145 ratings 
258. 
The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 3.37 avg rating — 51 ratings
258. 
Bastards & Boneheads: Canada’s Glorious Leaders, Past and Present
by:
Will Ferguson
4.09 avg rating — 286 ratings 
267. 
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
by:
Norbert Wiener
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 746 ratings 
267. 
Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism
by:
Valentin Tomberg
4.52 avg rating — 599 ratings 267. 
De dichter vaart tusschen twee stormen : Een herinnering really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
275. 
For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
by:
Alice Miller
4.26 avg rating — 2,195 ratings 
275. 
Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food and Globalization
by:
Deborah Barndt
3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings 
275. 
Dat weet ik zelf niet : Jonge mensen in boek en verhaal
by:
Hella S. Haasse
3.38 avg rating — 37 ratings 
281. 
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
by:
James Davidson
3.90 avg rating — 575 ratings 
281. 
Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
by:
Geraldine Brooks
3.94 avg rating — 2,886 ratings 
285. 
285. 
Who Would Jesus Kill?: War, Peace, and the Christian Tradition
by:
Mark J. Allman
3.81 avg rating — 48 ratings 285. 
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
by:
Mircea Eliade
4.11 avg rating — 8,891 ratings 
