In 1998 the Modern Library created a list of what it considers to be the 100 best nonfiction books published since 1900. This list is called the Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction.
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Brooks Adams topped the list, followed by The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington and A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. The list included everything from memoirs (such as those listed above) to text books (such as The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by Keynes or The Elements of Style by Strunk and White) to polemics (like Silent Spring by Rachel Carson or Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.), to collections of essays (such as those of T. S. Eliot or James Baldwin).
A separate list of and the 100 best novels of the 20th century was created the same year. A list of reader choices was published separately by Modern Library in 1999.
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