100: Melbourne by Lord David Cecil
99: Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
98: The Taming of Chance by Ian Hacking
97: The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
96: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
95: The Promise of American Life by Herbert Croly
94: The Countours of American History by William Appleman Williams
93: The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstader
92: The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
91: Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison
90: The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
89: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
88: Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
87: A Mathematician's Apology by G.H. Hardy
86: This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
85: West With the Night by Beryl Markham
84: A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
83: Vermeer by Lawrence Gowing
82: The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield
81: The Face of Battle by John Keegan
80: Studies in Iconology by Erwin Panofsky
79: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
78: Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
77: Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
76: The City in History by Lewis Mumford
75: The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
74: Florence Nightingale by Cecil Woodham-Smith
73: James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
72: The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
71: The Rise of the West by William H. McNeill
70: The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
69: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
68: The Gate of Heavenly Peace by Jonathan D. Spence
67: A Preface to Morals by Walter Lippmann
66: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R.H. Tawney
65: The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates
64: The Open Society and It's Enemies by Karl Popper
63: The Sweet Science by A.J. Liebling
62: The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
61: Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
60: In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams
59: Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone
58: Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
57: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
56: The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
55: Darkness Visible by William Styron
54: Working by Studs Terkel
53: Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
52: The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
51: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
50: Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
49: Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson
48: The Great Bridge by David McCullough
47: Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson
46: The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
45: A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee
44: Children of Crisis by Robert Coles
43: The Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
42: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
41: Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
40: Science and Civilization in China by Joseph Needham
39: Autobiographies by W.B. Yeats
38: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
37: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
36: The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
35: Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
34: On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Thompson
33: Philosophy and Civilization by John Dewey
32: Principa Ethica by G.E. Moore
31: The Souls of Black folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
30: The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
29: Art and Illusion by Ernest H. Gombrich
28: A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
27: The Ants by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson
26: The Art of the Soluble by Peter B. Medawar
25: The Mirror and the Lamp by Meyer Howard Abrams
24: The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
23: Principa Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
22: An American Dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal
21: The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White
20: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
19: Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
18: The Nature and Destiny of Man by Reinhold Niebuhr
17: The Proper Study of Mankind by Isaiah Berlin
16: The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
15: The Civil War by Shelby Foote
14: Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
13: Black Boy by Richard Wright
12: The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
11: The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
10: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
9: The American Language by H.L. Mencken
8: Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
7: The Double Helix by James D. Watson
6: Selected Essays, 1917-1932 by T.S. Eliot
5: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
4: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
3: Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
2: The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
1: The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams