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Best 100 Nonfiction List from 09-13-2010

Best 100 Non Fiction Books of All Time

  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