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? The Modern Library announced this list of the 100 best nonfiction?books written in English and published in the Twentieth Century on April 29, 1999. The voting members of the Modern Library editorial board were: A.S. Byatt, Caleb Carr, Christopher Cerf, Shelby Foote, Stephen Jay Gould, Vartan Gregorian, Charles Johnson, Jon Krakauer, Edmund Morris, Elaine Pagels, John Richardson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Carolyn See. The books were chosen for their literary and intellectual merit. The list was compiled during an eight-month process with voting conducted from a master ballot of over 900 titles that had been assembled by Modern Library and Random House staff and then added to by the board members. Six of the titles on this list were written by authors who also had works listed in the "Modern Library's 100 Best English Language Novels of the Twentieth Century:" Virginia Woolf,?William?Styron, Ralph Ellison, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Wright, and E. M. Forster.?
MODERN LIBRARY'S?
100 BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NONFICTION BOOKS?OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
美国兰登书屋的《当代文库》编辑小组於1998年7月间选出了本世纪一百大最佳英文非小说(100 best nonfiction)。这份排名书单一公布,即引起举世回响和评论。?
另外,蓝灯书屋也在网络上开放供读者票选百大书单,名单亦列在委员会所选之书单旁,以供对照参考。读者票选百大书单中,以贺伯特(L.Ron Hubbard)的《现代心理健康科学》(Dianetics : the Modern Science of Mentel Health)一书获得5,806票,排第一名。?
The Board's List
- THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS《亨利·亚当斯的教育》?by Henry Adams [PDF格式下载]
- THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE《宗教经验种种》?by William James [PDF格式下载]
- UP FROM SLAVERY《超越奴役》?by Booker T. Washington [PDF格式下载]
- A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN《一间自己的房间》?by Virginia Woolf [PDF格式下载]
- SILENT SPRING《寂静的春天》?by Rachel Carson [PDF格式下载]
- SELECTED ESSAYS, 1917-1932《T.S.艾略特散文集》?by T. S. Eliot [PDF影印版下载]
- THE DOUBLE HELIX《双螺旋》?by James D. Watson [PDF格式下载]
- SPEAK, MEMORY?by Vladimir Nabokov
- THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE《美国语言》?by H. L. Mencken [在线阅读]
- THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST, AND MONEY《就业、利息和货币通论》?by John Maynard Keynes [PDF格式下载]
- THE LIVES OF A CELL《细胞生命的礼赞》?by Lewis Thomas [PDF格式下载]
- THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY《美国历史上边疆的重要性》?by Frederick Jackson Turner [PDF格式下载]
- BLACK BOY?by Richard Wright
- ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL《小说面面观》?by E. M. Forster [PDF格式下载]
- THE CIVIL WAR?by Shelby Foote
- THE GUNS OF AUGUST?by Barbara Tuchman [PDF格式下载]
- THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND?by Isaiah Berlin
- THE NATURE AND DESTINY OF MAN?by Reinhold Niebuhr
- NOTES OF A NATIVE SON?by James Baldwin
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS?by Gertrude Stein
- THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE《风格的要素》?by William Strunk and E. B. White [PDF格式下载]
- AN AMERICAN DILEMMA?by Gunnar Myrdal
- PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA《数学原理》?by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell [Djvu格式下载]
- THE MISMEASURE OF MAN《人的误测》?by Stephen Jay Gould [PDF格式下载]
- THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP?by Meyer Howard Abrams
- THE ART OF THE SOLUBLE?by Peter B. Medawar
- THE ANTS?by Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson
- A THEORY OF JUSTICE《正义论》?by John Rawls [PDF影印版下载]
- ART AND ILLUSION?by Ernest H. Gombrich
- THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS?by E. P. Thompson
- THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK《黑人的灵魂》?by W.E.B. Du Bois [PDF格式下载]
- PRINCIPIA ETHICA《伦理学原理》?by G. E. Moore [PDF+HTML格式下载]
- PHILOSOPHY AND CIVILIZATION?by John Dewey
- ON GROWTH AND FORM《生长和形态》?by D'Arcy Thompson
- IDEAS AND OPINIONS《想法和观点》?by Albert Einstein [PDF影印版下载]
- THE AGE OF JACKSON,?by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr
- THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB?by Richard Rhodes
- BLACK LAMB and Grey Falcon?by Rebecca West
- AUTOBIOGRAPHIES?by W. B. Yeats
- SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION IN CHINA?by Joseph Needham
- GOODBYE TO ALL THAT?by?Robert?Graves
- HOMAGE TO CATALONIA《向加泰罗尼亚致敬》?by George Orwell [PDF格式下载]
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN《马克·吐温自传》?by Mark Twain [PDF+HTML格式下载]
- CHILDREN OF CRISIS?by Robert Coles
- A STUDY OF HISTORY?by Arnold J. Toynbee
- THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY?by John Kenneth Galbraith
- PRESENT AT THE CREATION?by Dean Acheson
- THE GREAT BRIDGE?by David McCullough
- PATRIOTIC GORE?by Edmund Wilson
- SAMUEL JOHNSON?by Walter Jackson Bate
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X《马尔科姆X自传》?by Alex Haley and Malcolm X [PDF格式下载]
- THE RIGHT STUFF《太空英雄》?by Tom Wolfe [PDF格式下载]
- EMINENT VICTORIANS《维多利亚名人传》?by Lytton Strachey [PDF格式下载]
- WORKING?by Studs Terkel
- DARKNESS VISIBLE《黑暗视觉》?by William Styron [PDF格式下载]
- THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION?by Lionel Trilling
- THE SECOND WORLD WAR《第二次世界大战回忆录》?by Winston Churchill [PDF格式下载]
- OUT OF AFRICA《走出非洲》?by Isak Dinesen [PDF格式下载]
- JEFFERSON AND HIS TIME?by Dumas Malone
- IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN?by William Carlos Williams
- CADILLAC DESERT?by Marc Reisner
- THE HOUSE OF MORGAN?by Ron Chernow
- THE SWEET SCIENCE?by A. J. Liebling
- THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES《开放社会及其敌人》?by Karl Popper [PDF格式下载]
- THE ART OF MEMORY?by Frances A. Yates
- RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM《宗教与资本主义的兴起》?by R. H. Tawney
- A PREFACE TO MORALS?by Walter Lippmann
- THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE?by Jonathan D. Spence
- THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS《科学革命的结构》by Thomas S. Kuhn [PDF格式下载]
- THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW?by C. Vann Woodward
- THE RISE OF THE WEST?by William H. McNeill
- THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS《诺斯替教的福音》?by Elaine Pagels [PDF格式下载]
- JAMES JOYCE?by Richard Ellmann
- FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE?by Cecil Woodham-Smith
- THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY?by Paul Fussell
- THE CITY IN HISTORY?by Lewis Mumford
- BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM?by James M. McPherson
- WHY WE CAN'T WAIT?by Martin Luther King by Jr.
- THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT?by Edmund Morris
- STUDIES IN ICONOLOGY?by Erwin Panofsky
- THE FACE OF BATTLE?by John Keegan
- THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL ENGLAND?by George Dangerfield
- VERMEER?by Lawrence Gowing
- A BRIGHT SHINING LIE?by Neil Sheehan
- WEST WITH THE NIGHT?by Beryl Markham
- THIS BOY'S LIFE?by Tobias Wolff
- A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY《一个数学家的辩白》?by G. H. Hardy [PDF格式下载]
- SIX EASY PIECES?by Richard P. Feynman
- PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK《汀克溪的朝圣者》?by Annie Dillard [PDF格式下载]
- THE GOLDEN BOUGH《金枝》?by James George Frazer [PDF格式下载]
- SHADOW AND ACT?by Ralph Ellison
- THE POWER BROKER?by Robert A. Caro
- THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION?by Richard Hofstadter
- THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY?by William Appleman Williams
- THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE《美国生活的希望》?by Herbert Croly [PDF格式下载]
- IN COLD BLOOD《冷血》?by Truman Capote [PDF格式下载]
- THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER?by Janet Malcolm
- THE TAMING OF CHANCE?by Ian Hacking
- OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS《操作指导:吾儿第一年的日志》?by Anne Lamott [HTML格式下载]
- MELBOURNE?by Lord David Cecil
The Reader's List
- THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS?by AYN RAND
- DIANETICS:THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH?by L. RON HUBBARD
- OBJECTIVISM: THE PHILOSOPHY OF AYN RAND?by LEONARD PEIKOFF
- 101 THINGS TO DO TIL THE REVOLUTION?by CLAIRE WOLFE
- THE GOD OF THE MACHINE?by ISABEL PATERSON
- AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE?by MICHAEL PAXTON
- THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE?by JULIAN SIMON
- ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON?by HENRY HAZLITT
- SEND IN THE WACO KILLERS?by VIN SUPRYNOWICZ
- MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME?by JOHN R. LOTT
- PSYCHIATRY: THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL?by BRUCE WISEMAN
- FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS?by G. HANCOCK
- CLASSICAL INDIVIDUALISM: THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF EACH HUMAN BEING?by TIBOR MACHAN
- FREE TO CHOOSE?by MILTON AND ROSE FRIEDMAN
- AIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS IF YOU DO?by PETER MCWILLIAMS
- THE ROAD TO SERFDOM?by F. A. HAYEK
- FREEDOM IN CHAINS?by JAMES BOVARD
- AMERICA'S GREAT DEPRESSION?by MURRAY N. ROTHBARD
- THE ROOSEVELT MYTH?by JOHN T. FLYNN
- THE TRUE BELIEVER?by ERIC HOFFER
- VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS?by THOMAS WEST
- THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?by CARL L.?BECKER
- COGNITIVE THERAPY AND THE EMOTIONAL DISORDERS?by AARON T. BECK
- DEATH?by GOVERNMENT by R. J. RUMMEL
- A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN?by VIRGINIA WOOLF
- LONGITUDE?by DAVA SOBEL
- ORDINARILY SACRED?by LYNDA SEXSON
- SPEAK, MEMORY?by VLADIMIR NABOKOV
- THE ART OF MEMORY?by FRANCES YATES
- DUMBING US DOWN?by JOHN TAYLOR GATTO
- THE GOLDEN BOUGH?by JAMES FRAZER
- UNDAUNTED COURAGE: MERIWETHER LEWIS, THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST?by STEPHEN E. AMBROSE
- A MODERN PROPHET?by HAROLD KLEMP
- THE FLUTE OF GOD?by PAUL TWITCHELL
- REAL PRESENCES?by GEORGE STEINER
- OUT OF AFRICA?by ISAK DINESEN
- WAYS OF SEEING?by JOHN BERGER
- THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY: THE BETRAYAL OF LIBERTY ON AMERICA'S CAMPUSES?by ALAN CHARLES KORS
- PROPERTY MATTERS: HOW PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE UNDER ASSAULT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE?by JAMES V. DE LONG
- STORMING HEAVEN?by JAY STEVENS
- THE TEXAN?by C. S. BARRIOS
- HOMAGE TO CATALONIA?by GEORGE ORWELL
- THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE?by WILLIAM JAMES
- HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS?by DARRELL HUFF
- BUT IS IT TRUE??by AARON WILDAVSKY
- A MATHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER?by JOHN ALLEN PAULOS
- ANATOMY OF CRITICISM?by NORTHROP FRYE
- THE MAINSPRING OF HUMAN PROGRESS?by HENRY GRADY WEAVER
- MODERN TIMES?by PAUL JOHNSON
- MEN TO MATCH MY MOUNTAINS?by IRVING STONE
- THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS?by HENRY ADAMS
- THE GREAT BRIDGE?by DAVID MCCULLOUGH
- AMERICAN GAY?by STEPHEN O. MURRAY
- THE DOUBLE HELIX?by JAMES D. WATSON
- THE SENSE OF AN ENDING?by FRANK KERMODE
- THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS?by ELAINE PAGELS
- EROS THE BITTERSWEET?by ANNE CARSON
- THE WESTERN CANON?by HAROLD BLOOM
- THE WHITE GODDESS?by ROBERT GRAVES
- HEALING OUR WORLD?by MARY RUWART
- SILENT SPRING?by RACHEL CARSON
- PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK?by ANNIE DILLARD
- SEXUAL PERSONAE?by CAMILLE PAGLIA
- THINK AND GROW RICH?by NAPOLEON HILL
- A LIFE OF ONE'S OWN?by DAVID KELLEY
- DOORS OF PERCEPTION?by ALDOUS HUXLEY
- THE DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM?by ROSE WILDER LANE
- MORE LIBERTY MEANS LESS GOVERNMENT?by WALTER WILLIAMS
- LIBERTARIANISM: A PRIMER?by DAVID BOAZ
- BEYOND LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE?by WILLIAM MADDOX AND STUART LILIE
- A CONFLICT OF VISIONS: IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF POLITICAL STRUGGLES?by THOMAS SOWELL
- PARLIAMENT OF WHORES?by P. J. O'ROURKE
- SEPARATING SCHOOL AND STATE: HOW TO LIBERATE AMERICA'S FAMILIES?by SHELDON RICHMAN
- THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES?by VIRGINIA POSTREL
- THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE?by WILLIAM STRUNK AND E. B. WHITE
- ORIENTALISM?by EDWARD SAID
- ECOTERROR?by RON ARNOLD
- WHY GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WORK?by HARRY BROWNE
- OUT OF THE CRISIS?by W. EDWARDS DEMING
- NOT OUT OF AFRICA?by MARY LEFKOWITZ
- THE END OF RACISM?by DINESH D'SOUZA
- BEHIND THE MASK?by IAN BURUMA
- IN A DARK WOOD?by ALSTON CHASE
- PRIVATE PARTS?by HOWARD STERN
- THE TELEPHONE BOOK?by AVITAL RONELL
- THE MINUTEMAN: RESTORING AN ARMY OF THE PEOPLE?by GARY HART
- WAKING AND DREAMING?by JOSEPH HART
- THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD?by LANA CANTRELL
- RADICAL SON?by DAVID HOROWITZ
- UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN?by SUSAN SONTAG
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X?by ALEX HALEY AND MALCOLM X
- A FEELING FOR BOOKS?by JANICE RADWAY
- THE HERO OF A THOUSAND FACES?by JOSEPH CAMPBELL
- THE JOB?by WILLIAM BURROUGHS
- SILENT INTERVIEWS?by SAMUEL R. DELANY
- SLATS GROBNIK AND SOME OTHER FRIENDS?by MIKE ROYKO
- RISE OF THE UNMELTABLE ETHNICS?by MICHAEL NOVACK
- REVERSE ANGLE?by JOHN SIMON
- PLACING MOVIES?by JONATHON ROSENBAUM
- RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING?by PATRICK J BUCHANAN