A Century in Books

This is one of the 743 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

First Things Magazine, 19 Books

The editors of First Things Magazine, an influential journal of religion & public life, released this list back in 2000 when R. J. Neuhaus was editor-in-chief

Who voted?
There are 18 people who submitted books according to the article, and every person is named

This list was originally published in 2000 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
2415 Natural Right and History Leo Strauss 1953 American English
8347 Moral Man And Immoral Society Reinhold Niebuhr 1932 American English
13462 Humanist Manifesto 2000 Paul Kurtz 1999 American English
8347 Ethics Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1949 German German
673 The Joy of Cooking Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker 1931 American English
8347 Dogmatics In Outline Karl Barth 1946 German German
580 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Rebecca West 1941 British English
2184 That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
8347 Integral Humanism Jacques Maritain 1936 French French
51 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
10274 Just And Unjust Wars Michael Walzer 1977 American English
414 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn 1962 American English
12591 The Missionary Movement In Christian History Andrew Walls 1996 Scottish English
11507 Modernity On Endless Trial Leszek Kolakowski 1990 Polish English
8347 Christianity And Liberalism J. Gresham Machen 1923 American English
8852 Crisis Of The House Divided Harry V. Jaffa 1959 American English
349 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor 1971 American English
641 The Varieties of Religious Experience William James 1902 American English
6392 Crossing The Threshold Of Hope Pope John Paul II 1994 Italian Italian