Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books

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Een kamer voor jezelf
door Virginia Woolf
12,397 leden
168 besprekingen
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The Elements of Style
door William Jr. Strunk
19,885 leden
192 besprekingen
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aulsmith : There was much in this book to like, but I've found other books on writing just as helpful, if not more so.
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In koelen bloede
door Truman Capote
23,716 leden
466 besprekingen
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De structuur van wetenschappelijke revoluties
door Thomas S. Kuhn
8,080 leden
92 besprekingen
4
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aulsmith: But read it carefully. It's not as post-modern as some people think
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Een geboren Amerikaan
door James Baldwin
2,010 leden
30 besprekingen
4.2
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The Souls of Black Folk
door W. E. B. Du Bois
5,246 leden
68 besprekingen
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De dubbele helix hoe ik de sleutel tot de erfelijkheid ontdekte en daarmee de Nobelprijs won
door James D. Watson
3,029 leden
44 besprekingen
3.8
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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
door Isaiah Berlin
713 leden
4 besprekingen
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aulsmith: Berlin is great, never satisfied with easy answers (or some times any answer)
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Selected Essays
door T. S. Eliot
394 leden
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Uit slavernij in vrijheid
door Booker T. Washington
4,257 leden
38 besprekingen
4
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Aspects of the Novel
door E. M. Forster
2,288 leden
39 besprekingen
3.8
2 Members
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James Joyce
door Richard Ellmann
1,308 leden
12 besprekingen
½ 4.4
2 Members
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Pure klasse
door Tom Wolfe
4,664 leden
72 besprekingen
4.2
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aulsmith : This was an interesting book, but too cynical for my taste.
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De kanonnen van augustus de eerste oorlogsmaand van 1914
door Barbara W. Tuchman
6,602 leden
125 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
door Studs Terkel
2,123 leden
20 besprekingen
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The Civil War (complete 14 volumes)
door Shelby Foote
25 leden
2 Members
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Een lied van Afrika
door Isak Dinesen
5,220 leden
98 besprekingen
3.9
2 Members
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The Education of Henry Adams
door Henry Adams
2,820 leden
44 besprekingen
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The Journalist and the Murderer
door Janet Malcolm
675 leden
14 besprekingen
3.8
2 Members
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Het duister zichtbaar : verslag van een voorbijgaande gekte
door William Styron
3,032 leden
82 besprekingen
3.9
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
door Malcolm X
9,782 leden
123 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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De jongen die ik was
door Tobias Wolff
2,936 leden
46 besprekingen
3.9
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De varianten van religieuze ervaring : een onderzoek naar de menselijke aard
door William James
5,190 leden
36 besprekingen
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Silent Spring
door Rachel Carson
6,517 leden
97 besprekingen
4
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aulsmith : This is getting very dated. A silent spring is certainly not our greatest ecological worry.
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Geheugen, spreek een autobiografie herzien
door Vladimir Nabokov
3,606 leden
44 besprekingen
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The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
door H. L. Mencken
707 leden
3 besprekingen
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
door John Maynard Keynes
1,760 leden
12 besprekingen
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
door Lewis Thomas
2,069 leden
31 besprekingen
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The Frontier in American History
door Frederick Jackson Turner
505 leden
7 besprekingen
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Black Boy
door Richard Wright
5,200 leden
68 besprekingen
4
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The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation: Human Nature & Human Destiny 2 Volume set
door Reinhold Niebuhr
490 leden
2 besprekingen
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De autobiografie van Alice B. Toklas
door Gertrude Stein
2,681 leden
43 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
door Gunnar Myrdal
140 leden
2 besprekingen
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Principia Mathematica (3-volume set)
door Alfred North Whitehead
73 leden
4
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The Mismeasure of Man [Revised & Expanded]
door Stephen Jay Gould
1,833 leden
17 besprekingen
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
door Meyer H. Abrams
564 leden
4 besprekingen
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The Art of the Soluble: Creativity and Originality in Science
door P. B. Medawar
71 leden
2 besprekingen
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The Ants
door Bert Hölldobler
351 leden
3 besprekingen
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Een theorie van rechtvaardigheid
door John Rawls
3,147 leden
24 besprekingen
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Kunst en illusie : de psychologie van het beeldend weergeven
door E. H. Gombrich
1,093 leden
5 besprekingen
4
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The Making of the English Working Class
door E. P. Thompson
1,779 leden
10 besprekingen
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Principia Ethica
door G. E. Moore
675 leden
3 besprekingen
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Philosophy and Civilization
door John Dewey
30 leden
3
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On Growth and Form
door D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
310 leden
2 besprekingen
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Ideas and Opinions
door Albert Einstein
1,957 leden
10 besprekingen
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The Age of Jackson
door Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
883 leden
11 besprekingen
4
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
door Richard Rhodes
3,518 leden
53 besprekingen
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia
door Rebecca West
1,697 leden
23 besprekingen
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Autobiography of William Butler Yeats
door William Butler Yeats
245 leden
2 besprekingen
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Science and Civilization in China (Science and Civilisation in China)
door Joseph Needham
16 leden
5
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Dat hebben we gehad
door Robert Graves
3,690 leden
66 besprekingen
4
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Saluut aan Catalonië
door George Orwell
6,176 leden
104 besprekingen
4.1
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
door Mark Twain
887 leden
9 besprekingen
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Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
door Robert Coles
153 leden
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A study of history
door Arnold Joseph Toynbee
271 leden
4 besprekingen
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De economie van de overvloed
door John Kenneth Galbraith
1,721 leden
13 besprekingen
3.8
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
door Dean Acheson
468 leden
5 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
door David McCullough
2,714 leden
58 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
door Edmund Wilson
401 leden
5 besprekingen
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Samuel Johnson
door W. Jackson Bate
401 leden
5 besprekingen
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Eminent Victorians
door Lytton Strachey
1,769 leden
32 besprekingen
3.8
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The Liberal Imagination
door Lionel Trilling
530 leden
5 besprekingen
3.8
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De Tweede Wereldoorlog
door Winston S. Churchill
1,475 leden
9 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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Jefferson and His Time (6 Volume Set)
door Dumas Malone
280 leden
3 besprekingen
4.2
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In the American Grain
door William Carlos William
517 leden
2 besprekingen
3.9
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
door Marc Reisner
1,748 leden
35 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
door Ron Chernow
1,436 leden
19 besprekingen
3.9
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The open society and its enemies
door Karl Popper
895 leden
13 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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De geheugenkunst
door Frances A. Yates
1,472 leden
15 besprekingen
4
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Religie en de opkomst van het kapitalisme een historische studie
door R. H. Tawney
764 leden
3 besprekingen
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A Preface to Morals
door Walter Lippmann
373 leden
1 bespreking
3.9
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De poort van de Hemelse Vrede de Chinezen en hun revolutie 1895-1980
door Jonathan D. Spence
433 leden
1 bespreking
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
door C. Vann Woodward
1,074 leden
5 besprekingen
4
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The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
door William H. McNeill
707 leden
8 besprekingen
4.2
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De gnostische evangeliën
door Elaine Pagels
4,901 leden
51 besprekingen
3.9
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Florence Nightingale
door Cecil Woodham-Smith
307 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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The Great War and Modern Memory
door Paul Fussell
2,088 leden
27 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
door James M. McPherson
5,380 leden
76 besprekingen
½ 4.4
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Waarom wij niet langer kunnen wachten
door Martin Luther King, Jr.
1,492 leden
7 besprekingen
½ 4.4
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
door Edmund Morris
4,054 leden
49 besprekingen
½ 4.4
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Iconologische studies
door Erwin Panofsky
448 leden
1 bespreking
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The Face of Battle
door John Keegan
2,764 leden
26 besprekingen
4
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The Strange Death of Liberal England
door George Dangerfield
455 leden
6 besprekingen
4.1
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Vermeer (Barnes & Noble Art Series)
door Lawrence Gowing
109 leden
1 bespreking
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
door Neil Sheehan
2,159 leden
33 besprekingen
4.2
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De nacht achterna vlucht over Afrika
door Beryl Markham
3,603 leden
127 besprekingen
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Apologie van een wiskundige
door G. H. Hardy
1,375 leden
26 besprekingen
3.8
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
door Richard Feynman
3,864 leden
38 besprekingen
4.1
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Waterspiegelingen
door Annie Dillard
5,474 leden
105 besprekingen
4.2
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Shadow and Act
door Ralph Ellison
426 leden
4
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
door Robert A. Caro
2,913 leden
48 besprekingen
½ 4.6
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The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made it
door Richard Hofstadter
1,246 leden
13 besprekingen
3.9
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The Contours of American History
door William Appleman Williams
137 leden
1 bespreking
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The Promise of American Life
door Herbert Croly
131 leden
½ 2.6
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The Taming of Chance
door Ian Hacking
246 leden
2 besprekingen
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
door Anne Lamott
1,702 leden
32 besprekingen
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The Young Melbourne
door David Cecil
56 leden
2
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98
The Sweet Science
door A. J. Liebling
255 leden
7 besprekingen
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aulsmith : I love Liebling's writing, but even he couldn't get me to read about boxing.
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
door Lewis Mumford
1,400 leden
8 besprekingen
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aulsmith : This has really been out-dated by more modern archeology.
100
The Golden Bough [set - 15 volumes]
door James George Frazer
23 leden
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aulsmith : Even the abridged version is more than most people want to know.