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Given by The Guardian

5 Works 45,680 Books 434 Reviews 4.1

The 100 greatest non-fiction books, published June 2011.

See also The Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All-Time by Robert McCrum, published December 2017.

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On the Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
The Selfish Gene (1976) by Richard Dawkins
The Character of Physical Law (1965) by Richard Feynman
A Brief History of Time from the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) by Stephen Hawking
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) by James D. Watson

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