Published June 2011​
  1. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 : an experiment in literary investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  2. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  3. The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes
  4. The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich
  5. Ways of Seeing by John Berger
  6. The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
  7. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
  8. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
  9. Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
  10. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
  11. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
  12. Notes On 'Camp' by Susan Sontag
  13. Mythologies by Roland Barthes
  14. Orientalism by Edward W. Said
  15. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  16. The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock
  17. The Histories by Herodotus
  18. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  19. The History of England from the Accession of James II, Complete by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  20. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
  21. The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
  22. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
  23. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
  24. Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński
  25. The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
  26. Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt
  27. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
  28. The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
  29. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
  30. Dispatches by Michael Herr
  31. Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson
  32. An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. by Chinua Achebe
  33. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
  34. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
  35. The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  36. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
  37. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
  38. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence
  39. An Autobiography: the Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
  40. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
  41. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  42. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
  43. The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka by Wole Soyinka
  44. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
  45. Bad blood by Lorna Sage
  46. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
  47. The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen
  48. Symposium by Plato
  49. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  50. The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
  51. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
  52. Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
  53. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  54. Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
  55. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  56. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
  57. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
  58. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
  59. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  60. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  61. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
  62. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
  63. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
  64. The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
  65. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  66. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
  67. The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
  68. The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
  69. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman
  70. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
  71. The Golden Bough : A Study in Comparative Religion by James George Frazer
  72. The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
  73. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  74. The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
  75. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
  76. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  77. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
  78. The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
  79. In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
  80. Letters on England by Voltaire
  81. Suicide by Emile Durkheim
  82. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology by Max Weber
  83. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
  84. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
  85. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
  86. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  87. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
  88. Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison by Michel Foucault
  89. News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez
  90. The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
  91. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
  92. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
  93. Venice by Jan Morris
  94. A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
  95. Danube by Claudio Magris
  96. China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society by Cao Jinqing
  97. The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
  98. Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban
  99. Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa
SOURCE
​https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/14/100-greatest-non-fiction-books
​Guardian 100 Greatest Non-Fiction