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The Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction was created in 1998 by the Modern Library. The list is what it considers to be the 100 best non-fiction books published since 1900. The list includes memoirs, textbooks, polemics, and collections of essays. A separate list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century was created the same year. [1]
Many publishers have lists of best books, defined by their own criteria.This article enumerates some lists for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by ...
Winners of the Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book. This award was replaced by the award for Best Related Book in 1999 which was itself replaced by the award for Best Related Work in 2010. Pages in category "Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book–winning works"
The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, worked with Mortimer Adler to develop there a course of a type originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921, with the innovation of a "round table" approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates.
20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction; Best-selling books; Big Read; Bokklubben World Library; Children's classic books; Great Books of the Western World; Harvard Classics; Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century; Literary Taste: How to Form It; Major English dictionaries; Modern Library's 100 Best Novels; Most ...
S. Savage Range; Scarlet Plume; Shalako (novel) Shane (novel) The Ship of Souls; Sisters (Lynne Cheney novel) The Sisters Brothers; Six-Gun Snow White; Slocum (westerns)
This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.
Readership of western fiction reached a new low in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and most bookstores, outside a few western states, only carry a small number of Western fiction books. Nevertheless, several Western fiction series are published monthly, such as The Trailsman, Slocum, Longarm and The Gunsmith; these are all "adult ...