Best 100 Nonfiction List from 09-13-2010

1. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 
2. The Republic by Plato 
3. Walden by Henry David Thereau 
4. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 
5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 
6. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 
7. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn 
8. The Principia by Sir Isaac Newton 
9. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis 
10. 1776 by David McCullough 
11. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 
12. Night by Elie Wiesel 
13. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkins 
14. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 
15. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 
16. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 
17. The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White 
18. John Adams by David McCullough 
19. The Federalist Papers 
20. Common Sense by Thomas Paine 
21. Critic of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 
22. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown 
23. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 
24. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins 
25. The Confessions of St Augustine by St Augustine of Hippo 
26. Into Thin Air by John Krakauer 
27. The Histories by Herodotus 
28. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe 
29. The City of God by St Augustine 
30. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 
31. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 
32. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 
33. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 
34. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber 
35. Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes