Robert McCrum's guide to the 100 greatest nonfiction books in English, published in full December 2017.
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein
- Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
- A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
- Orientalism by Edward W. Said
- Dispatches by Michael Herr
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- North by Seamus Heaney
- Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
- The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
- Rock from the Beginning by Nik Cohn
- The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
- Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
- Ariel by Sylvia Plath
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
- The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
- A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
- The Elements of Style by William Jr. Strunk
- The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
- The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
- The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark
- The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David
- The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis
- The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- How to Cook a Wolf by M. F. K. Fisher
- Enemies of promise by Cyril Connolly
- The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
- The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
- My Early Life: 1874-1904 by Winston S. Churchill
- Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
- Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
- The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States {Fourth Edition} by H. L. Mencken
- Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
- The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
- De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
- The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
- Aubrey's brief lives by John Aubrey
- The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
- Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear
- Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
- The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Roget's International Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
- London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
- Household Education by Harriet Martineau
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
- Essays: First Series and Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
- American Dictionary of the English Language (1828 Facsimile Edition) by Noah Webster
- Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
- Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb
- Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
- Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah Equiano
- Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White
- The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
- The diary of Fanny Burney by Fanny Burney
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine
- A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
- A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
- A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
- A tour through the whole island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
- The Book of Common Prayer by Episcopal Church
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
- Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial) and The Garden of Cyrus by Thomas Browne
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- Areopagitica by John Milton
- Devotions upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne
- The First Folio of Shakespeare: The Norton Facsimile by William Shakespeare
- The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
- The History of the World by Sir Walter Raleigh
- The Kids Bible: King James Version
SOURCE
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/31/the-100-best-nonfiction-books-of-all-time-the-full-list
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/31/the-100-best-nonfiction-books-of-all-time-the-full-list
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