The 100 best nonfiction books of all time: the full list

After two years of careful consideration, Robert McCrum has concluded his selection of the 100 greatest nonfiction books of all time. Take a quick look back at five centuries of great writing

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 73 – Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (1807), Fiction

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 61 – On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1859), Philosophy books

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 11 – North by Seamus Heaney (1975), Seamus Heaney

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 67 – Household Education by Harriet Martineau (1848), Women

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 46 – The Waste Land by TS Eliot (1922), TS Eliot

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 23 – The Elements of Style by William Strunk and EB White (1959), Classics

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 46 – The Waste Land by TS Eliot (1922), TS Eliot

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 29 – Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1952/53), Samuel Beckett

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The 100 best nonfiction books: No 19 – The Making of the English Working Class by EP Thompson (1963), History books

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 52 – De Profundis by Oscar Wilde (1905), Oscar Wilde