Time's Top 100 Nonfiction Book List Features Heartbreaking Work, Civil War, and More
September 1st, 2011
Time has released a list of their picks for the top 100 Nonfiction books of all time. Vintage Books and Anchor Books are strongly represented on the list, which features, among others, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Hiroshima by John Hersey, and The Power Broker by Robert Caro. Read on for the full list of Vintage and Anchor nonfiction picks.
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
- The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
- Orientalism by Edward Said
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
- The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
- What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer
- The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
- The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- The Civil War (Vol. 2, Vol 3) by Shelby Foote
- Dispatches by Michael Herr
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright