Authors of the Top-100 non-fictional books - Statistics

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	Title	Answer	% Correct
52	Das Kapital	Karl Marx	96%
1	The Republic	Plato	94%
11	The Prince	Niccolò Machiavelli	89%
44	On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	86%
67	The Ego and the Id	Sigmund Freud	83%
61	Relativity: The Special and the General Theory	Albert Einstein	79%
25	The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	77%
48	Thus Spoke Zarathustra	Friedrich Nietzsche	77%
2	Politics	Aristotle	74%
27	Critique of Pure Reason	Immanuel Kant	73%
87	The Second Sex	Simone de Beauvoir	68%
23	The Social Contract	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	65%
16	Leviathan	Thomas Hobbes	64%
15	An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding	John Locke	63%
3	Elements	Euclid	62%
7	The City of God	Augustine of Hippo	61%
17	Discourse on the Method	René Descartes	60%
81	Being and Nothingness	Jean-Paul Sartre	58%
32	The Phenomenology of Spirit	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	56%
8	Summa Theologica	Thomas Aquinas	55%
96	The Double Helix	James Watson	51%
40	The Condition of the Working Class in England	Friedrich Engels	49%
10	On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church	Martin Luther	49%
24	An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding	David Hume	47%
12	De revolutionibus orbium coelestium	Nicolaus Copernicus	47%
6	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	46%
14	Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems	Galileo Galilei	44%
22	Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations	Voltaire	44%
72	Being and Time	Martin Heidegger	43%
9	In Praise of Folly	Erasmus	41%
93	Silent Spring	Rachel Carson	41%
66	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus	Ludwig Wittgenstein	33%
76	What Is to Be Done?	Vladimir Lenin	32%
33	The World as Will and Representation	Arthur Schopenhauer	30%
19	Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order	Baruch Spinoza	30%
58	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	Max Weber	30%
37	Democracy in America	Alexis de Tocqueville	29%
89	The Second World War	Winston Churchill	29%
28	Über den Zwischenkiefer der Menschen und der Tiere	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	28%
83	The Open Society and Its Enemies	Karl Popper	28%
21	The Spirit of the Laws	Montesquieu	27%
31	An Essay on the Principle of Population	Thomas Robert Malthus	26%
64	Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy	Bertrand Russell	25%
57	Logical Investigations	Edmund Husserl	25%
88	The Origins of Totalitarianism	Hannah Arendt	25%
99	A Theory of Justice	John Rawls	25%
77	Coming of Age in Samoa	Margaret Mead	25%
18	De l'Esprit géométrique	Blaise Pascal	24%
20	Théodicée	Gottfried Leibniz	24%
5	Parallel Lives	Plutarch	24%
39	The Concept of Anxiety	Søren Kierkegaard	20%
4	The Jewish War	Flavius Josephus	19%
94	Language and Mind	Noam Chomsky	19%
56	Vorträge und Erinnerungen	Max Planck	16%
82	Dialectic of Enlightenment	Max Horkheimer/Theodor W. Adorno	15%
65	The Decline of the West	Oswald Spengler	15%
13	Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects	Giorgio Vasari	13%
35	On War	Carl von Clausewitz	11%
54	Gedanken und Erinnerungen	Otto von Bismarck	11%
41	The Ego and Its Own	Max Stirner	10%
38	What is Property?	Pierre-Joseph Proudhon	9%
91	The Principle of Hope	Ernst Bloch	8%
47	History of Rome	Theodor Mommsen	8%
70	Literature and Revolution	Leon Trotsky	7%
29	Über den Umgang mit Menschen	Adolph Knigge	6%
78	A Study of History	Arnold J. Toynbee	6%
53	The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind	Gustave Le Bon	6%
43	The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy	Jacob Burckhardt	6%
95	Knowledge and Human Interests	Jürgen Habermas	6%
46	Statism and Anarchy	Mikhail Bakunin	6%
51	The Foundations of Arithmetic	Gottlob Frege	5%
34	Nouveau Christianisme	Henri de Saint-Simon	5%
74	The Revolt of the Masses	José Ortega y Gasset	5%
63	The Epistle to the Romans	Karl Barth	5%
97	Physics and Beyond	Werner Heisenberg	5%
45	Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe	Alexander von Humboldt	4%
36	Life of Jesus	David Strauss	4%
68	Toward an Architecture	Le Corbusier	4%
73	Sex and Repression in Savage Society	Bronisław Malinowski	3%
80	Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy	Joseph Schumpeter	3%
42	History of the Reformation in Germany	Leopold von Ranke	3%
59	Reflections on Violence	Georges Sorel	2%
26	A Voyage Round the World	Georg Forster	2%
69	History and Class Consciousness	György Lukács	2%
92	Physics in My Generation	Max Born	2%
86	Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine	Norbert Wiener	2%
79	Jesus Christus und die Mythologie	Rudolf Bultmann	2%
100	The Limits to Growth	Club of Rome	1%
84	Der SS-Staat	Eugen Kogon	1%
62	Fundamental Questions of Sociology	Georg Simmel	1%
50	History of Germany in the nineteenth century	Heinrich von Treitschke	1%
98	Chance and Necessity	Jacques Monod	1%
30	Enquiries into the Course of Nature in the Development of the Human Race	Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi	1%
85	The Phenomenon of Man	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	1%
55	The world-riddle	Ernst Haeckel	0%
49	Diaries	Friedrich Hebbel	0%
60	Kompositionslehre der Natur	Jakob Johann von Uexküll	0%
90	Die Auflösung der Weimarer Republik	Karl Dietrich Bracher	0%
75	Die geistige Situation der Zeit	Karl Jaspers	0%
71	Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique	Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde	0%

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