The Guardian Top 100 Non Fiction

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
Dispatches by Michael Herr
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
North by Seamus Heaney
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
Rock from the Beginning by Nik Cohn
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
The Elements of Style by William Jr. Strunk
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David
The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis
The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper
Black Boy by Richard Wright
How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
Enemies of promise by Cyril Connolly
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
My Early Life: 1874-1904 by Winston S. Churchill
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed
The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
The American Language by H. L. Mencken
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Brief Lives by John Aubrey
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear
Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Roget's international thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
Household Education by Harriet Martineau
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Essays: First Series and Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
American Dictionary of the English Language (1828 Facsimile Edition) by Noah Webster
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb
Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah Equiano
Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
The diary of Fanny Burney by Fanny Burney
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
A tour through the whole island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
The Book of Common Prayer [1953] by Episcopal Church
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial) and The Garden of Cyrus by Thomas Browne
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Areopagitica by John Milton
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne
The First Folio of Shakespeare: The Norton Facsimile by William Shakespeare
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
The History of the World by Sir Walter Raleigh
Holy Bible: King James Version