Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction was created in 1998 by the Modern Library. The list is what it considers to be the 100 best non-fiction books published since 1900.
The list includes memoirs, textbooks, polemics, and collections of essays. A separate list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century was created the same year.[1]
The following table shows the top ten books from the editors' list:[2]
| # | Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1918 | The Education of Henry Adams | Script error: No such module "Sort". |
| 2 | 1902 | The Varieties of Religious Experience | Script error: No such module "Sort". |
| 3 | 1901 | Up from Slavery | Script error: No such module "Sort". |
| 4 | 1929 | A Room of One's Own | Script error: No such module "Sort". |
| 5 | 1962 | Silent Spring | Script error: No such module "Sort". |
| 6 | 1932 | Selected Essays, 1917–1932 | Script error: No such module "Sort". |
| 7 | 1968 | The Double Helix | Script error: No such module "Sort". |
| 8 | 1951 | Speak, Memory | Script error: No such module "Sort". |
| 9 | 1919 | The American Language | Script error: No such module "Sort". |
| 10 | 1936 | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | Script error: No such module "Sort". |
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