The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Readers' List

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The goal of the "100 Best" project was to get people talking about great books. We succeeded beyond our wildest imaginings -- more than 400,000 avid readers rushed online to cast votes for their

toon meer favorite books.


The readers' poll for the best nonfiction published in the English language since 1900 opened on April 29, 1999 and closed on September 30, 1999 with a total of 194,829 votes cast. It appears to have been heavily affected by a strong turnout from fans of Ayn Rand and L. Ron. Hubbard.

This is The Readers' List. See also The Board's List toon minder

Year Awarded:
1999
WerkSorteerveld
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) door Ayn Rand
1
Dianetics de nieuwe wetenschap over geestelijke gezondheid : een handboek over de Dianetics procedure (1950) door L. Ron Hubbard
2
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (1991) door Leonard Peikoff
3
101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution: Ideas and Resources for Self-Liberation, Monkey Wrenching and Preparedness (1996) door Claire Wolfe
4
The God of the Machine (1943) door Isabel Paterson
5
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life : The Companion Book (1998) door Michael Paxton
6
The Ultimate Resource (1981) door Julian Lincoln Simon
7
Economics in One Lesson (1946) door Henry Hazlitt
8
Send In The Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998 (1999) door Vin Suprynowicz
9
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (1998) door John R. Lott Jr.
10
Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal (1995) door Bruce Wiseman
11
Het ontstaan en het einde van alles (1995) door Graham Hancock
12
Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being (1998) door Tibor R. Machan
13
Aan ons de keus (1980) door Milton Friedman
14
Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society (1993) door Peter McWilliams
15
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents: The Definitive Edition (1944) door F. A. Hayek
16
De weg naar moderne slavernij waarheen leidt de huidige economische crisis ? (1944) door F. A. Hayek
16
Freedom in Chains : The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (1891) door James Bovard
17
America's Great Depression (1963) door Murray Rothbard
18
The Roosevelt Myth (1948) door John T. Flynn
19
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (1951) door Eric Hoffer
20
Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America (1997) door Thomas G. West
21
The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas (1942) door Carl Becker
22
Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (1976) door Aaron T. Beck
23
Death by Government (1994) door R. J. Rummel
24
Een kamer voor jezelf (1929) door Virginia Woolf
25
Lengtegraad : het ware verhaal van een eenzaam genie dat het grootste wetenschappelijke probleem van zijn tijd oploste (1995) door Dava Sobel
26
Ordinarily sacred (1982) door Lynda Sexson
27
Geheugen, spreek een autobiografie herzien (1947) door Vladimir Nabokov
28
De geheugenkunst (1966) door Frances A. Yates
29
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992) door John Taylor Gatto
30
De gouden tak over mythen, magie en religie (1890) door James George Frazer
31
Undaunted Courage (1996) door Stephen E. Ambrose
32
A Modern Prophet: Answers Your Key Questions About Life (1998) door Harold Klemp
33
The Flute of God (1832) door Paul Twitchell
34
Het verbroken contract (1989) door George Steiner
35
Een lied van Afrika (1937) door Isak Dinesen
36
Anders zien (1972) door John Berger
37
The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses (1998) door Alan Charles Kors
38
Property Matters: How Property Rights Are Under Assault and Why You Should Care (1997) door James V. DeLong
39
Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (1987) door Jay Stevens
40
Saluut aan Catalonië (1938) door George Orwell
42
De varianten van religieuze ervaring : een onderzoek naar de menselijke aard (1902) door William James
43
Gebruik en misbruik van de statistiek (1954) door Darrell Huff
44
But Is It True?: A Citizens Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues (1995) door Aaron Wildavsky
45
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995) door John Allen Paulos
46
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) door Northrop Frye
47
The Mainspring of Human Progress (1947) door Henry Grady Weaver
48
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (2001) door Paul Johnson
49
Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900 (1956) door Irving Stone
50
The Education of Henry Adams (1907) door Henry Adams
51
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972) door David McCullough
52
American Gay (1996) door Stephen O. Murray
53
De dubbele helix hoe ik de sleutel tot de erfelijkheid ontdekte en daarmee de Nobelprijs won (1969) door James D. Watson
54
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1967) door Frank Kermode
55
De gnostische evangeliën (1979) door Elaine Pagels
56
Eros the Bittersweet (1986) door Anne Carson
57
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (1994) door Harold Bloom
58
The White Goddess (1948) door Robert Graves
59
Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression (1992) door Mary J. Ruwart
60
Silent Spring (1962) door Rachel Carson
61
Waterspiegelingen (1974) door Annie Dillard
62
Het seksuele masker kunst, seksualiteit en decadentie in de westerse beschaving (1990) door Camille Paglia
63
Denk groot & word rijk (1937) door Napoleon Hill
64
A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State (1998) door David Kelley
65
De deuren der waarneming (1954) door Aldous Huxley
66
The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943) door Rose Wilder Lane
67
More Liberty Means Less Government (1998) door Walter E. Williams
68
Libertarianism: A Primer (1997) door David Boaz
69
Beyond Liberal and Conservative: Reassessing the Political Spectrum (1984) door William S. Maddox
70
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (1987) door Thomas Sowell
71
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government (1991) door P. J. O'Rourke
72
Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's Families (1994) door Sheldon Richman
73
The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress (1998) door Virginia Postrel
74
The Elements of Style (1959) door William Jr. Strunk
75
Oriëntalisten (1978) door Edward W. Said
76
Ecoterror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature : The World of the Unabomber (1997) door Ron Arnold
77
Why Government Doesn't Work (1995) door Harry Browne
78
De crisis overwonnen : kwaliteit, produktiviteit en concurrentiepositie (1982) door W. Edwards Deming
79
Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth As History (1996) door Mary Lefkowitz
80
The End of Racism (1995) door Dinesh D'Souza
81
De spiegel van de zonnegodin Japanse zelfportretten (1984) door Ian Buruma
82
In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the New Tyranny of Ecology (1995) door Alston Chase
83
Private Parts (1993) door Howard Stern
84
The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989) door Avital Ronell
85
The Minuteman: Returning to an Army of the People (1998) door Gary Hart
86
The Greatest Story Never Told: A Scientific Inquiry into the Evidence of the Fall of Man from a Higher Civilization in Antiquity (1988) door Lana Corrine Cantrell
88
Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey (1997) door David Horowitz
89
In het teken van Saturnus (1980) door Susan Sontag
90
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) door Malcolm X
91
A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire (1997) door Janice A. Radway
92
De held met de duizend gezichten (1949) door Joseph Campbell
93
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (1970) door Daniel Odier
94
Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics--A Collection of Written Interviews (1994) door Samuel R. Delany
95
Slats Grobnik and some other friends (1973) door Mike Royko
96
The rise of the unmeltable ethnics; politics and culture in the seventies (1971) door Michael Novak
97
Reverse Angle: A Decade of American Film (1981) door John Simon
98
Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism (1995) door Jonathan Rosenbaum
99
Right from the Beginning (1988) door Patrick J. Buchanan
100

Beschrijvingen

The goal of the "100 Best" project was to get people talking about great books. We succeeded beyond our wildest imaginings -- more than 400,000 avid readers rushed online to cast votes for their favorite books.


The readers' poll for the best nonfiction published in the English language since 1900 opened on April 29, 1999 and closed on September 30, 1999 with a total of 194,829 votes cast. It appears to have been heavily affected by a strong turnout from fans of Ayn Rand and L. Ron. Hubbard.

This is The Readers' List. See also The Board's List

(English, Door lid geschreven)

The work at #41, "The Texan" by C.S. Barrios, is to date not catalogued on LibraryThing.

(English, Technisch/ondubbelzinnig maken bericht)

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