Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Non-Fiction Books

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Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Non-Fiction Books.

Honestly this list has very little information and is ranked accordingly.

This list was originally published in 2011 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
395 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein 1933 American English
640 Black Boy Richard Wright 1945 American English
2206 Dreams from My Father Barack Obama 1995 American English
1783 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers 2000 American English
521 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1969 American English
17152 Manchild In The Promised Land Claude Brown 1965 American English
1104 Maus Art Spiegelman 1980 American English
855 A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1964 American English
3155 Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin 1955 American English
1265 On Writing Stephen King 2000 American English
514 Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov 1951 American English
14232 A Walk In The Woods Bill Bryson 1998 American English
306 The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley 1965 American English
2198 The Last Lion William Manchester 1983 American English
1901 The Power Broker Robert Caro 1974 American English
1170 Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman 1962 American English
5573 Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser 2001 American English
319 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money John Maynard Keynes 1936 British English
1207 How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 1936 American English
2183 No Logo Naomi Klein 1999 Canadian English
5495 Unsafe At Any Speed Ralph Nader 1965 American English
6309 What Color Is Your Parachute? Richard Nelson Bolles 1970 American English
3220 The American Cinema Andrew Sarris 1968 American English
15910 A Child Of The Century Ben Hecht 1954 American English
14985 Within The Context Of No Context George W. S. Trow 1980 American English
11010 Mystery Train Greil Marcus 1975 American English
806 The Story of Art Ernest H. Gombrich 1950 British English
7664 Against Interpretation Susan Sontag 1966 American English
173 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 British English
1020 Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion 1968 American English
1565 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace 1997 American English
2836 How to Cook a Wolf M. F. K. Fisher 1942 American English
2804 Mastering the Art of French Cooking Julia Child, Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle 1961 American English
4751 The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan 2006 American English
1873 And the Band Played On Randy Shilts 1987 American English
795 Baby And Child Care Benjamin Spock 1946 American English
14232 The Joy of Sex Alex Comfort 1972 British English
15910 The Kinsey Reports Alfred C. Kinsey 1948 American English
4676 Our Bodies, Ourselves Unknown 1970 American English
3194 The Best And The Brightest David Halberstam 1972 American English
558 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Alexander Brown 1970 American English
9754 Carry Me Home Diane McWhorter 2001 American English
8891 The Fatal Shore Robert Hughes 1987 Australian English
2817 The Gnostic Gospels Elaine Pagels 1979 American English
456 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee 1941 American English
2586 A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn 1980 American English
2480 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer 1960 American English
3452 The Closing of the American Mind Allan Bloom 1987 American English
3952 The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama 1992 American English
1387 Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas Hofstadter 1979 American English
2625 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell 1949 American English
17152 Imagined Communities Benedict Anderson 1983 British English
1572 Nature and Destiny of Man Reinhold Niebuhr 1941 American English
1529 Orientalism Edward W. Said 1978 Palestinian English
14201 Syntactic Structures Noam Chomsky 1957 American English
1677 A Theory of Justice John Rawls 1971 American English
1545 Understanding Media Marshall McLuhan 1964 Canadian English
634 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig 1974 American English
540 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe 1968 American English
2731 The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer 1979 American English
109 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1966 American English
416 Out of Africa Isak Dinesen 1937 Danish Danish
3148 All the President's Men Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein 1974 American English
14232 The Clash of Civilizations Samuel P. Huntington 1996 American English
15910 Conscience Of A Conservative Barry Goldwater 1960 American English
1320 God and Man at Yale William F. Buckley, Jr 1951 American English
448 Homage to Catalonia George Orwell 1938 British English
7047 The Making of the President, 1960 Theodore White 1961 American English
440 The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt 1951 German English
16801 The Paranoid Style In American Politics Richard Hofstadter 1964 American English
2611 What It Takes Richard Ben Cramer 1992 American English
1122 A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking 1988 British English
905 Coming of Age in Samoa Margaret Mead 1928 American English
304 The Double Helix James D. Watson 1968 American English
1974 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 American English
3195 The Lives of a Cell Lewis Thomas 1974 American English
1345 The Naked Ape Desmond Morris 1967 British English
8408 On Human Nature E. O. Wilson 1978 American English
2307 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins 1976 British English
162 Silent Spring Rachel Carson 1962 American English
417 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn 1962 American English
2633 AA Big Book Bill W 1939 American English
620 The Elements of Style E. B. White, William Strunk Jr. 1918 American English
2519 The American Way of Death Jessica Mitford 1963 American English
7583 Animal Liberation Peter Singer 1975 Australian English
1655 The Beauty Myth Naomi Wolf 1990 American English
1007 The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs 1961 American English
709 The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan 1963 American English
1384 Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond 1997 American English
1204 Nickel And Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich 2001 American English
16547 The Other America Michael Harrington 1962 American English
3099 Why We Can't Wait Martin Luther King 1964 American English
5474 Working Studs Terkel 1974 American English
3100 Ball Four Jim Bouton 1970 American English
3941 The Sweet Science A. J. Liebling 1956 American English
483 The Civil War Shelby Foote 1958 American English
652 Dispatches Michael Herr 1977 American English
2717 The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Fussell 1975 American English
451 Hiroshima John Hersey 1946 American English
1884 The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright 2006 American English