Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction

The Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction was created in 1998 by the Modern Library. The list is what it considers to be the 100 best non-fiction books published since 1900.

The list includes memoirs, textbooks, polemics, and collections of essays. A separate list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century was created the same year.^[1]

The following table shows the top ten books from the editors' list:^[2]

#	Year	Title	Author
1	1918	The Education of Henry Adams	Henry Brooks Adams
2	1902	The Varieties of Religious Experience	William James
3	1901	Up from Slavery	Booker T. Washington
4	1929	A Room of One's Own	Virginia Woolf
5	1962	Silent Spring	Rachel Carson
6	1932	Selected Essays, 1917–1932	T. S. Eliot
7	1968	The Double Helix	James D. Watson
8	1951	Speak, Memory	Vladimir Nabokov
9	1919	The American Language	H. L. Mencken
10	1936	The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money	John Maynard Keynes