Modern Library's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century
Watson and Crick represent James Watson (7)
* Missing: Lewis Thomas (11)
* Frederick Jackson Turner (12)
* Barbara Tuchman (16)
* Isaiah Berlin (17)
* William Strunk (21)
* Howard Abrams (25)
* Peter Medawar (26)
* Bert Holldobler (27)
* Edward O. Wilson (27)
* Ernest H. Gombrich (29)
* E. P. Thompson (30)
* D’Arcy Thompson (34)
* Richard Rhodes (37)
* Joseph Needham (40)
* Robert Coles (44)
* Arnold Toynbee (45)
* Edmund Wilson (49)
* Walter Jackson Bate (50)
* Lionel Trilling (56)
* Dumas Malone (59)
* Marc Reisner (61)
* Ron Chernow (62)
* A. J. Liebling (63)
* Frances A. Yates (65)
* R. H. Tawney (66)
* Walter Lippmann (67)
* Jonathan D. Spence (68)
* C. Vann Woodward (70)
* William H. McNeill (71)
* Richard Ellman (73)
* Cecil Woodham-Smith (74)
* Paul Fussell (75)
* Lewis Mumford (76)
* James McPherson (77)
* Erwin Panofsky (80)
* John Keegan (81)
* George Dangerfield (82)
* Lawrence Gowring (83)
* Neil Sheehan (84)
* Tobias Wolff (86)
* G. H. Hardy (87)
* Annie Dillard (89)
* James George Frazer (90)
* Robert A. Caro (92)
* Richard Hofstadter (93)
* William Appleman Williams (94)
* Herbert Croly (95)
* Janet Malcolm (97)
* Ian Hacking (98)
* Anne Lamott (99)
* David Cecil (100)
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Author
41.18% (7 of 17 votes)
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44
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Philosopher
36.96% (17 of 46 votes)
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50
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3
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Author
35.00% (14 of 40 votes)
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30
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4
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Author
42.03% (29 of 69 votes)
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Advocate
44.44% (12 of 27 votes)
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6
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Poet
39.06% (25 of 64 votes)
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47
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7
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Scientist
36.11% (13 of 36 votes)
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12
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8
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Author
61.76% (21 of 34 votes)
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9
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Author
39.02% (16 of 41 votes)
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10
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Economist
73.08% (19 of 26 votes)
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70.73% (29 of 41 votes)
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39.02% (16 of 41 votes)
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41.18% (14 of 34 votes)
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Religious Figure
50.0% (9 of 18 votes)
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39.62% (21 of 53 votes)
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20
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Poet
65.85% (27 of 41 votes)
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21
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37.76% (37 of 98 votes)
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Economist
62.50% (15 of 24 votes)
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23
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Philosopher
55.56% (15 of 27 votes)
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Mathematician
50.0% (11 of 22 votes)
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42.42% (14 of 33 votes)
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28
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51.85% (14 of 27 votes)
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31
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Advocate
67.92% (36 of 53 votes)
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Philosopher
47.83% (11 of 23 votes)
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Philosopher
39.13% (9 of 23 votes)
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Scientist
33.13% (222 of 670 votes)
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36
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62.86% (22 of 35 votes)
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48.28% (14 of 29 votes)
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Poet
38.71% (12 of 31 votes)
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41
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Poet
45.45% (10 of 22 votes)
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36.84% (35 of 95 votes)
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36.05% (84 of 233 votes)
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46
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Economist
60.0% (12 of 20 votes)
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U.S. Secretary of State
57.14% (16 of 28 votes)
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Educator
36.84% (7 of 19 votes)
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51
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Advocate
74.22% (213 of 287 votes)
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51.22% (21 of 41 votes)
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67.65% (23 of 34 votes)
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64.29% (9 of 14 votes)
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20.63% (13 of 63 votes)
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50.0% (6 of 12 votes)
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World Leader
30.63% (480 of 1567 votes)
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37.93% (11 of 29 votes)
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60
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Poet
50.0% (12 of 24 votes)
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64
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Philosopher
44.00% (11 of 25 votes)
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69
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Educator
40.0% (10 of 25 votes)
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72
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Educator
52.50% (21 of 40 votes)
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78
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Advocate
35.09% (2589 of 7379 votes)
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79
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83.33% (15 of 18 votes)
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85
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Aviator
62.50% (15 of 24 votes)
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28
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88
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Scientist
43.24% (16 of 37 votes)
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91
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40.43% (19 of 47 votes)
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40.26% (31 of 77 votes)
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