TIME Magazine’s All-Time

100 Nonfiction Books
1. The Elements of Style  by William Strunk & EB White
2. In Cold Blood  by Truman Capote
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings  by Maya Angelou
4. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal   by Eric
Schlosser
5. The Omnivore’s Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael
Pollan
6. On Writing  by Stephen King
7. Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History  by Art
Spiegelman
8. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies   by Jared
Diamond
9. Silent Spring  by Rachel Carson
10. Hiroshima  by John Heresy
11. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian
Trail   by Bill Bryson
12. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into
Values   by Robert M Pirsig
13. The Autobiography of Malcolm X  by Alex Haley & Malcolm X
14. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America   by Barbara
Ehrenreich
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius   by Dave Eggers
16. A Brief History of Time   by Stephen Hawking
17. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
18. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the
American West  by Dee Brown
19. Out of Africa  by Isak Dinesen
20. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein
21. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
22. Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
23. Black Boy  by Richard Wright
24. What Color Is Your Parachute? 2007: A Practical Manual for
Job-Hunters and Career-Changers   by Richard Nelson Bolles
25. The Feminine Mystique  by Betty Friedan
26. The Selfish Gene  by Richard Dawkins
27. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS
Epidemic   by Randy Shilts
28. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi
Germany   by William L. Shirer
29. A Moveable Feast  by Ernest Hemingway
30. The Hero With a Thousand Faces  by Joseph Campbell
31. Dreams from my Father  by Barack Obama
32. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test  by Tom Wolfe
33. The Joy of Sex  by Alex Comfort
34. Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Vol. 1)   by Julia Child
35. The Gnostic Gospels  by Elaine Pagels
36. The Double Helix  by James D Watson
37. The Beauty Myth  by Naomi Wolf
38. Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care   by Benjamin Spock
39. How to Win Friends & Influence People   by Dale Carnegie
40. Homage to Catalonia  by George Orwell
41. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
42. Alcoholics Anonymous — Big Book  by Alcoholics Anonymous
43. The Fatal Shore: The Epic Of Australia’s Founding by Robert Hughes
44. No Logo  by Naomi Klein
45. Slouching Towards Bethlehem  by Joan Didion
46. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men  by James Agee
47. The Lives of a Cell  by Lewis Thomas
48. The Making of President 1960  by Theodore H White
49. The Power Broker  by Robert A Caro
50. Speak, Memory  by Vladimir Nabokov
51. The Naked Ape  by Desmond Morris
52. Notes of a Native Son  by James Baldwin
53. Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How
They Feel About What They Do   by Studs Terkel
54. The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas  by Gertrude Stein
55. The Best and the Brightest  by David Halberstam
56. The Civil War  by Shelby Foote
57. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid  by Douglas R
Hofstadter
58. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive
Youth for Western Civilisation   by Margaret Mead
59. Capitalism and Freedom  by Milton Friedman
60. Manchild in the Promised Land  by Claude Brown
61. The Emperor of all Maladies  by Siddhartha Mukherjee
62. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again   by David Foster
Wallace
63. Against Interpretation  by Susan Sontag
64. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions  by Thomas S Kuhn
65. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11  by Lawrence
Wright
66. Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King Jr
67. Ball Four  by Jim Bouton
68. Unsafe at Any Speed  by Ralph Nader
69. Animal Liberation  by Peter Singer
70. Orientalism  by Edward Saïd
71. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money   by John
Maynard Keynes
72. The Closing of the American Mind  by Allan Bloom
73. God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of ‘Academic
Freedom’   by William F Buckley Jr
74. The Other America  by Michael Harrington
75. The Origins of Totalitarianism  by Hannah Arendt
76. Dispatches  by Michael Herr
77. The American Way of Death Revisited  by Jessica Mitford
78. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order   by
Samuel P Huntington
79. The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-40   by
William Raymond Manchester
80. The End of History and the Last Man  by Francis Fukuyama
81. Syntactic Structures  by Noam Chomsky
82. On Human Nature  by Edward O Wilson
83. The Paranoid Style in American Politics  by Richard Hofstadter
84. The Conscience of a Conservative  by Barry Goldwater
85. The Death and Life of Great American Cities  by Jane Jacobs
86. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of
the Civil Rights Revolution   by Diane McWhorter
87. Nature and Destiny of Man  by Reinhold Niebuhr
88. The Story of Art  by Ernst Gombrich
89. How to Cook a Wolf  by MFK Fisher
90. A Theory of Justice  by John Rawls
91. The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968  by
Andrew Sarris
92. A Child of the Century  by Ben Hecht
93. Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male  by Alfred Kinsey
94. What it Takes: The Way to the White House  by Richard Ben Cramer
95. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man  by Marshall McLuhan
96. Within the Context of No Context  by George WS Trow
97. Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll by Greil Marcus
98. The Sweet Science  by AJ Leibling
99. The Great War and Modern Memory  by Paul Fussell
100. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism by Benedict RO’G Anderson