Best Non-Fiction List
Fri/31/Oct 2008
Here’s the Top 25 Non-Fiction books as chosen by The
National Review.
Top 25 Non-Fiction:
1. The Second World War by Winston Churchill
2. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
3. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
4. The Road to Serfdom by F.A. von Hayek
5. Collected Essays by George Orwell
6. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
7. The Abolition o fMan by C.S. Lewis
8. Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
9. The Constitution of Liberty by F.A. von Hayek
10. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
11. Modern Times by Paul Johnson
12. Rationalism in Politics by Michael Oakeshott
13. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter
14. Economy and Society by Max Weber
15. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
16. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
17. Sociobiology by Edward O. Wilson
18. Centisimus Annus by Pope John Paul II
19. The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn
20. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
21. The Great Terror by Robert Conquest
22. Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge
23. Relativity by Albert Einstein
24. Wtness b Whittaker Chambers
25. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
I read #20 in high school, but that’s about it.
Top 25 Non-Fiction:
1. The Second World War by Winston Churchill
2. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
3. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
4. The Road to Serfdom by F.A. von Hayek
5. Collected Essays by George Orwell
6. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
7. The Abolition o fMan by C.S. Lewis
8. Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
9. The Constitution of Liberty by F.A. von Hayek
10. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
11. Modern Times by Paul Johnson
12. Rationalism in Politics by Michael Oakeshott
13. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter
14. Economy and Society by Max Weber
15. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
16. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
17. Sociobiology by Edward O. Wilson
18. Centisimus Annus by Pope John Paul II
19. The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn
20. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
21. The Great Terror by Robert Conquest
22. Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge
23. Relativity by Albert Einstein
24. Wtness b Whittaker Chambers
25. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
I read #20 in high school, but that’s about it.
