Best 100 Non-Fiction Books

Top 100 nonfiction books of all time voted by regular people

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1. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
2. The Republic by Plato
3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
4. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
6. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
7. The Principia by Sir Isaac Newton
8. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
9. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
10. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
11. The Holy Bible
12. The Federalist Papers
13. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
14. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkins
15. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
16. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
17. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
18. 1776 by David McCullough
19. Critic of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
20. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
21. Night by Elie Wiesel
22. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
23. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
24. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
25. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
26. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
27. The Confessions of St Augustine by St Augustine of Hippo
28. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
29. John Adams by David McCullough
30. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
31. The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White
32. The Histories by Herodotus
33. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
34. Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
35. Truman by David McCullough
36. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
37. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
38. The World is Flat Thomas L. Friedman
39. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
40. Tao Te Ching By Lao Tzu
41. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
42. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin
43. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
44. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
45. The God Delusion Richard Dawkins
46. The Civil War by Shelby Foote
47. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
48. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
49. Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
50. The City of God by St Augustine

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Best 100 Non-Fiction Books of All Time updated on 01-31-2011