The Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All-Time

Given by The Guardian

100 Works 355,348 Livros 4,391 Críticas ½ 4.0
Robert McCrum's guide to the 100 greatest nonfiction books in English, published in full December 2017. 

Please note that this is a separate list from Guardian 100 Greatest Non-Fiction, published June mostrar mais 2011.

The Guardian's Hannah Jane Parkinson offers A response to the 100 best nonfiction books list. McCrum explains How I chose my list of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. mostrar menos
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) por Elizabeth Kolbert
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The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) por Joan Didion
2
No Logo (2000) por Naomi Klein
3
Birthday Letters (1998) por Ted Hughes
4
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) por Barack Obama
5
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) por Stephen Hawking
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The Right Stuff (1979) por Tom Wolfe
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Orientalism (1978) por Edward W. Said
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Dispatches (1977) por Michael Herr
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The Selfish Gene (1976) por Richard Dawkins
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North (1975) por Seamus Heaney
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Awakenings (1973) por Oliver Sacks
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The Female Eunuch (1970) por Germaine Greer
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Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock (1970) por Nik Cohn
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) por James D. Watson
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Against Interpretation: And Other Essays (1966) por Susan Sontag
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Ariel (1965) por Sylvia Plath
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The Feminine Mystique (1963) por Betty Friedan
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The Making of the English Working Class (1963) por E. P. Thompson
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Silent Spring (1962) por Rachel Carson
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) por Thomas S. Kuhn
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A Grief Observed (1961) por C. S. Lewis
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The Elements of Style (1959) por William Jr. Strunk
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The Affluent Society (1958) por John Kenneth Galbraith
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The Uses of Literacy (1957) por Richard Hoggart
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Notes of a Native Son (1955) por James Baldwin
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The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956) por Kenneth Clark
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (1953) por Isaiah Berlin
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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (1953) por Samuel Beckett
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A Book of Mediterranean Food (1950) por Elizabeth David
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The Great Tradition (1948) por F. R. Leavis
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The Last Days of Hitler (1962) por Hugh Trevor-Roper
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Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945) por Benjamin Spock
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Hiroshima (Expanded edition) (1946) por John Hersey
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The Open Society and Its Enemies (1962) por Karl Popper
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Black Boy (1945) por Richard Wright
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How to Cook a Wolf (1942) por M. F. K. Fisher
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Enemies of promise (1938) por Cyril Connolly
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The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) por George Orwell
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The Road to Oxiana (1937) por Robert Byron
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How to Win Friends & Influence People (1936) por Dale Carnegie
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Testament of Youth (1933) por Vera Brittain
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My Early Life: 1874-1904 (1930) por Winston S. Churchill
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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) por Robert Graves
44
A Room of One's Own (1929) por Virginia Woolf
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The Waste Land (1922) por T. S. Eliot
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Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) por John Reed
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) por John Maynard Keynes
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The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (1936) por H. L. Mencken
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Eminent Victorians (1918) por Lytton Strachey
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The Souls of Black Folk (1903) por W. E. B. Du Bois
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De Profundis (1905) por Oscar Wilde
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The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) por William James
53
Brief Lives (1898) por John Aubrey
54
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (1886) por Ulysses S. Grant
55
Life on the Mississippi (1883) por Mark Twain
56
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) por Robert Louis Stevenson
57
Nonsense Songs (1907) por Edward Lear
58
Culture and Anarchy (1867) por Matthew Arnold
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On the Origin of Species (1859) por Charles Darwin
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On Liberty (1859) por John Stuart Mill
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) por Mary Seacole
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) por Elizabeth Gaskell
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Walden (1854) por Henry David Thoreau
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Roget's International Thesaurus (1852) por Peter Mark Roget
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London Labour and the London Poor [4 Volume Set] (1967) por Henry Mayhew
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Household Education (2011) por Harriet Martineau
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) por Frederick Douglass
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Essays: First Series and Second Series (1934) por Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) por Fanny Trollope
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A Dictionary of the English Language (1967) por Noah Webster
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821) por Thomas De Quincey
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Tales from Shakespeare (1807) por Charles Lamb
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Travels in the Interior of Africa (1799) por Mungo Park
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791) por Benjamin Franklin
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) por Mary Wollstonecraft
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The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) por James Boswell
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Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) por Edmund Burke
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) por Olaudah Equiano
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Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1788) por Gilbert White
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The Federalist Papers (1787) por Alexander Hamilton
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The diary of Fanny Burney (1940) por Fanny Burney
82
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788) por Edward Gibbon
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Compendio da obra da riqueza das nações (1776) por Adam Smith
84
Common Sense (1776) por Thomas Paine
85
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) por Samuel Johnson
86
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) por David Hume
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A Modest Proposal [essay] (1729) por Jonathan Swift
88
A Tour through England and Wales (1724) por Daniel Defoe
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) por John Locke
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The Book of Common Prayer [1953] (1945) por Episcopal Church
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1825) por Samuel Pepys
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Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus (1658) por Thomas Browne
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Leviathan (1651) por Thomas Hobbes
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Areopagitica (1644) por John Milton
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1923) por John Donne
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The First Folio of Shakespeare (1623) por William Shakespeare
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) por Robert Burton
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The history of the world (1820) por Sir Walter Raleigh
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Holy Bible (King James Version) (1400) por King James Version
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