Modern Library's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century

Historical Literary

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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