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MOST INFLUENTIAL NON-FICTION BOOKS SINCE WWII

  • Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
  • Marc Bloch: The Historian’s Craft
  • James Burnham: The Managerial Revolution
  • Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
  • Erich Fromm: Fear of Freedom
  • Max Horkheimer: Dialectic of Enlightenment
  • Karl Jaspers: The Perennial Shape of Philosophy
  • Franz Neumann: Behemoth: the Structure and Practice of National Socialism 1933-1944
  • Karl Polanyi: The Great Transformation: The Political & Economic Origins of Our Time
  • Karl Popper: The Open Society & its Enemies
  • Jean Paul Sartre: Existentialism Is a Humanism
  • Joseph Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
  • Martin Wright: Power Politics
  • Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism
  • Raymond Aron: The Opium of Intellectuals
  • Kenneth J Arow: Social Choice and Individual Values
  • Roland Barthes: Mythologies
  • Norman Cohn: The Pursuit Of The Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
  • Milovan Djilas: The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System
  • Mircea Eliade: Images and Symbols
  • Erik H Erikson: Young Man Luther: A Study In Psychoanalysis and History
  • Lucien Febvre: The Struggle for History
  • John Kenneth Galbraith: The Affluent Society
  • Erving Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
  • Arthur Koestler: The God That Failed: Six Studies in Communism
  • Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: Tristes Tropiques
  • Czeslaw Milosz: The Captive Mind
  • David Riesman: The Lonely Crowd
  • Herbert Simon: Models of Man: Social and Rational
  • CP Snow: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
  • Leo Strauss: Natural Right and History
  • Jacob Leib Talmon: The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
  • Alan J. Taylor: The Struggle for Mastery in Europe (1848-1918)
  • Arnold Toynbee: The Study of History
  • Karl A. Wittfogel: Oriental Despotism
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations
  • Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • Daniel Bell: The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties
  • Isaiah Berlin: Liberty
  • Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power
  • Robert A Dahl: Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City
  • Mary Douglas: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
  • Erik H Erikson: Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
  • Michel Foucault: Madness and Civilisation
  • Milton Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom
  • Alexander Gerschenkron: Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective - A Book of Essays
  • Antonio Gramsci: The Prison Notebooks
  • F A Hayek: The Constitution of Liberty
  • Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
  • Carl Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
  • Thomas S Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  • Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie: The Peasants of Languedoc
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Savage Mind
  • Konrad Lorenz: On Aggression
  • Thomas C. Schelling: The Strategy of Conflict
  • Fritz Stern: The Politics Of Cultural Despair: A Study In The Rise Of The Germanic Ideology
  • EP Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class
  • Daniel Bell: The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism
  • Isaiah Berlin: Russian Thinkers
  • Ronald Dworkin: Taking Rights Seriously
  • Clifford Geertz: The Interpretation of Cultures
  • Albert O Hirschman: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
  • Leszek Kolakowski: Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
  • Hans Kung: On Being A Christian
  • Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia
  • John Rawls: A Theory of Justice
  • Gershom Scholem: The Messianic Idea in Judaism
  • EF Schumacher: Small is Beautiful
  • Tibor Scitovsky: The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction
  • Quentin Skinner: The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
  • Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn : The Gulag Archipelago
  • Keith Thomas: Religion and the Decline of Magic
  • Raymond Aron: Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection
  • Peter L. Berger: The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions About Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty
  • Norberto Bobbio: The Future of Democracy: A Defence of the Rules of the Game
  • Karl Dietrich Bracher: The Totalitarian Experience
  • John Eatwell, Murray Milgate & Peter Newman : The New Palgrave: The World of Economics
  • Ernest Gellner: Nations and Nationalism
  • Vaclav Havel: Living in Truth
  • Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time
  • Paul Kennedy: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
  • Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved
  • Roger Penrose: The Emperor’s Mind
  • Richard Rorty: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
  • Amartya Sen: Resources, Values, and Development
  • Michael Walzer: Spheres Of Justice: A Defense Of Pluralism And Equality
  • CS Lewis: Mere Christianity
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      • Favorite Books of 100 Spanish Authors by El Pais
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      • 50 Years of Books to Remember by The New York Public Library
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      • Radcliffe’s 100 Best Novels
      • Koen Book Distributors Top 100 Books of the Past Century
      • The Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
      • The 100 Best Non-Fiction Books Of The Century By National Review
    • Great Books of the Western World
    • Religion >
      • A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan
      • Christianity Today's Books of the Century
      • Church Times: 100 Best Christian books
      • Curriculum Of Thomas Aquinas College
    • Guardian >
      • Guardian Essential Library
      • ​Guardian 100 Greatest Non-Fiction (2011)
      • ​Guardian 100 Greatest Non-Fiction (2017)
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    • NPR Books >
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      • 100 Must-Reads For Kids 9-14
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      • Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life Reading List
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      • 105 Highly Regarded Fantasy Books
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        • 88 Books That Shaped America
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      • The Positive Library Books
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        • 100 Best Science Books
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        • Best Health Books
      • 272 Highly Regarded Crime & Thriller Books
      • Most Influential Non-Fiction Books since WWII
      • The Master List of Best Books
      • 1276 Greatest Books
      • ​Top 5000 Books of All Time
  • Hacker News​
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    • Bio & Memoir
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        • PSY 1504 Lecture 5-9
        • PSY 1504 Lecture 10-16
        • PSY 1504 Lecture 17-20
        • PSY 1504 Lecture 21-23
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