Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books

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Une chambre à soi
de Virginia Woolf
12,394 membres
168 critiques
4.1
4 Members
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The elements of style
de William Jr. Strunk
19,884 membres
192 critiques
4.2
5 Members
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Explications
aulsmith : There was much in this book to like, but I've found other books on writing just as helpful, if not more so.
3
De sang-froid
de Truman Capote
23,710 membres
466 critiques
4.1
4 Members
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4
La Structure des révolutions scientifiques
de Thomas S. Kuhn
8,081 membres
92 critiques
4
3 Members
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Explications
aulsmith: But read it carefully. It's not as post-modern as some people think
5
Notes of a Native Son
de James Baldwin
2,008 membres
30 critiques
4.2
3 Members
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Les âmes du peuple noir
de W. E. B. Du Bois
5,247 membres
68 critiques
4.2
3 Members
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La double hélice
de James D. Watson
3,027 membres
44 critiques
3.8
2 Members
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The Proper Study of Mankind
de Isaiah Berlin
713 membres
4 critiques
½ 4.3
2 Members
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Explications
aulsmith: Berlin is great, never satisfied with easy answers (or some times any answer)
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Selected Essays
de T. S. Eliot
393 membres
4
2 Members
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Up from Slavery, Ascension d'un Esclave Emancipé
de Booker T. Washington
4,257 membres
38 critiques
4
2 Members
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Aspects du roman
de E. M. Forster
2,288 membres
39 critiques
3.8
2 Members
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James Joyce
de Richard Ellmann
1,308 membres
12 critiques
½ 4.4
2 Members
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L'étoffe des héros
de Tom Wolfe
4,664 membres
72 critiques
4.2
3 Members
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Explications
aulsmith : This was an interesting book, but too cynical for my taste.
14
Août 14
de Barbara W. Tuchman
6,601 membres
125 critiques
½ 4.3
2 Members
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Working : Une adaptation graphique
de Studs Terkel
2,121 membres
20 critiques
4.2
2 Members
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The Civil War (complete 14 volumes)
de Shelby Foote
25 membres
2 Members
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La ferme africaine
de Isak Dinesen
5,221 membres
98 critiques
3.9
2 Members
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18
The Education of Henry Adams
de Henry Adams
2,820 membres
44 critiques
3.8
Member
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19
Le journaliste et l'assassin
de Janet Malcolm
675 membres
14 critiques
3.8
2 Members
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20
Face aux ténèbres
de William Styron
3,032 membres
82 critiques
3.9
2 Members
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21
L'Autobiographie de Malcolm X
de Malcolm X
9,780 membres
123 critiques
½ 4.3
2 Members
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22
This Boy's Life
de Tobias Wolff
2,936 membres
46 critiques
3.9
2 Members
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23
The Varieties of Religious Experience
de William James
5,189 membres
36 critiques
3.9
Member
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Printemps silencieux
de Rachel Carson
6,514 membres
97 critiques
4
2 Members
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Explications
aulsmith : This is getting very dated. A silent spring is certainly not our greatest ecological worry.
25
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
de Vladimir Nabokov
3,606 membres
44 critiques
4.2
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The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
de H. L. Mencken
707 membres
3 critiques
½ 4.5
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27
Théorie générale de l'emploi de l'intérêt et de la monnaie
de John Maynard Keynes
1,760 membres
12 critiques
½ 3.6
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
de Lewis Thomas
2,069 membres
31 critiques
4.1
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29
The Frontier in American History
de Frederick Jackson Turner
505 membres
7 critiques
3.9
Member
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30
Black Boy
de Richard Wright
5,200 membres
68 critiques
4
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31
The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation
de Reinhold Niebuhr
490 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
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32
Autobiographie d'Alice Toklas
de Gertrude Stein
2,680 membres
43 critiques
½ 3.6
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33
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
de Gunnar Myrdal
140 membres
2 critiques
3.8
Member
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34
Principia Mathematica (3-volume set)
de Alfred North Whitehead
73 membres
4
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35
The Mismeasure of Man [Revised & Expanded]
de Stephen Jay Gould
1,833 membres
17 critiques
4.1
Member
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36
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
de Meyer H. Abrams
564 membres
4 critiques
4
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37
The Art of the Soluble: Creativity and Originality in Science
de P. B. Medawar
71 membres
2 critiques
½ 4.3
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38
The Ants
de Bert Hölldobler
351 membres
3 critiques
½ 4.3
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Théorie de la justice
de John Rawls
3,147 membres
24 critiques
3.9
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L'Art et l'illusion: Psychologie de la représentation picturale
de E. H. Gombrich
1,093 membres
5 critiques
4
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41
La formation de la classe ouvrière anglaise
de E. P. Thompson
1,780 membres
10 critiques
4.1
Member
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42
Principa ethica
de G. E. Moore
675 membres
3 critiques
3.8
Member
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43
Philosophy and Civilization
de John Dewey
30 membres
3
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44
Forme et croissance
de D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
309 membres
2 critiques
4.2
Member
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45
Ideas and Opinions
de Albert Einstein
1,957 membres
10 critiques
3.9
Member
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46
The Age of Jackson
de Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
883 membres
11 critiques
4
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47
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
de Richard Rhodes
3,518 membres
53 critiques
½ 4.5
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48
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia
de Rebecca West
1,697 membres
23 critiques
4.1
Member
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49
Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
de William Butler Yeats
245 membres
2 critiques
3.9
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50
Science and Civilization in China (Science and Civilisation in China)
de Joseph Needham
16 membres
5
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51
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
de Robert Graves
3,690 membres
66 critiques
4
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Hommage à la Catalogne : 1936-1937
de George Orwell
6,173 membres
104 critiques
4.1
Member
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53
Autobiographie
de Mark Twain
886 membres
9 critiques
4.1
Member
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54
Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
de Robert Coles
153 membres
½ 4.6
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55
A study of history
de Arnold Joseph Toynbee
271 membres
4 critiques
3.2
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56
The affluent society.
de John Kenneth Galbraith
1,722 membres
13 critiques
3.8
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57
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
de Dean Acheson
468 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.7
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58
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
de David McCullough
2,713 membres
58 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
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59
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
de Edmund Wilson
401 membres
5 critiques
4.1
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60
Samuel Johnson
de W. Jackson Bate
401 membres
5 critiques
½ 4.4
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61
Victoriens éminents
de Lytton Strachey
1,769 membres
32 critiques
3.8
Member
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62
The Liberal Imagination
de Lionel Trilling
530 membres
5 critiques
3.8
Member
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63
La Deuxième Guerre mondiale (12 tomes)
de Winston S. Churchill
1,474 membres
9 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
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64
Jefferson and His Time (6 Volume Set)
de Dumas Malone
280 membres
3 critiques
4.2
Member
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65
Au grain d'Amérique
de William Carlos William
517 membres
2 critiques
3.9
Member
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66
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
de Marc Reisner
1,748 membres
35 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
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67
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
de Ron Chernow
1,436 membres
19 critiques
3.9
Member
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68
La société ouverte et ses ennemis
de Karl Popper
895 membres
13 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
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69
L'Art de la mémoire
de Frances A. Yates
1,472 membres
15 critiques
4
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70
La religion et l'essor du capitalisme
de R. H. Tawney
764 membres
3 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
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71
A Preface to Morals
de Walter Lippmann
373 membres
1 critique
3.9
Member
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72
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution
de Jonathan D. Spence
432 membres
1 critique
½ 3.7
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73
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
de C. Vann Woodward
1,074 membres
5 critiques
4
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74
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
de William H. McNeill
707 membres
8 critiques
4.2
Member
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75
Les Evangiles Secrets
de Elaine Pagels
4,900 membres
51 critiques
3.9
Member
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76
Florence Nightingale
de Cecil Woodham-Smith
307 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.7
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77
The Great War and Modern Memory
de Paul Fussell
2,088 membres
27 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
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78
La guerre de Sécession, 1861-1865
de James M. McPherson
5,380 membres
76 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
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79
Révolution non violente
de Martin Luther King, Jr.
1,493 membres
7 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
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80
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
de Edmund Morris
4,054 membres
49 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
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81
Essais d'iconologie
de Erwin Panofsky
447 membres
1 critique
4.1
Member
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82
Anatomie de la bataille. Azincourt 1415, Waterloo 1815, la Somme 1916
de John Keegan
2,763 membres
26 critiques
4
Member
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83
The Strange Death of Liberal England
de George Dangerfield
455 membres
6 critiques
4.1
Member
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84
Vermeer (Barnes & Noble Art Series)
de Lawrence Gowing
109 membres
1 critique
½ 3.3
Member
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85
L'innocence perdue. Un Américain au Vietnam
de Neil Sheehan
2,158 membres
33 critiques
4.2
Member
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86
Vers l'Ouest avec la nuit
de Beryl Markham
3,603 membres
127 critiques
4.1
Member
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87
Hardy, 1877-1947
de G. H. Hardy
1,374 membres
26 critiques
3.8
Member
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88
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
de Richard Feynman
3,861 membres
38 critiques
4.1
Member
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89
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
de Annie Dillard
5,473 membres
105 critiques
4.2
Member
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90
Shadow and Act
de Ralph Ellison
425 membres
4
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91
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
de Robert A. Caro
2,913 membres
48 critiques
½ 4.6
Member
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92
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made it
de Richard Hofstadter
1,246 membres
13 critiques
3.9
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93
The Contours of American History
de William Appleman Williams
137 membres
1 critique
½ 3.5
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94
The Promise of American Life
de Herbert Croly
131 membres
½ 2.6
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95
The Taming of Chance
de Ian Hacking
246 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
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96
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
de Anne Lamott
1,701 membres
32 critiques
4.1
Member
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97
The Young Melbourne
de David Cecil
56 membres
2
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98
The Sweet Science
de A. J. Liebling
255 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
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Explications
aulsmith : I love Liebling's writing, but even he couldn't get me to read about boxing.
99
La cité à travers l'histoire
de Lewis Mumford
1,400 membres
8 critiques
4.2
Member
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Explications
aulsmith : This has really been out-dated by more modern archeology.
100
The Golden Bough [set - 15 volumes]
de James George Frazer
23 membres
Member
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Explications
aulsmith : Even the abridged version is more than most people want to know.