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