Books That Changed The World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History
The Iliad 8TH CENTURY BC Homer
The Histories 5TH CENTURY BC Herodotus
The Analects 5TH CENTURY BC Confucius
The Republic 4TH CENTURY BC Plato
The Bible 2ND CENTURY BC–2ND CENTURY AD
Odes 23–13 BC Horace
Geographia c. AD 100–170 Ptolemy
Kama Sutra 2ND OR 3RD CENTURY AD Mallanaga Vatsyayana
The Qur’an 7TH CENTURY
Canon of Medicine 1025 Avicenna
The Canterbury Tales 1380s–90s Geof rey Chaucer
The Prince 1532 Niccolò Machiavelli
Atlas, or, Cosmographic Meditations 1585–95 Gerard Mercator
Don Quixote 1605–15 Miguel de Cervantes
First Folio 1623 William Shakespeare
An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals 1628 William Harvey
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 1632 Galileo Galilei
Principia Mathematica 1687 Isaac Newton
A Dictionary of the English Language 1755 Samuel Johnson
The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Wealth of Nations 1776 Adam Smith
Common Sense 1776 Thomas Paine
Lyrical Ballads 1798 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pride and Prejudice 1813 Jane Austen
A Christmas Carol 1843 Charles Dickens
The Communist Manifesto 1848 Karl Marx
Moby-Dick 1851 Herman Melville
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Madame Bovary 1857 Gustave Flaubert
On the Origin of Species 1859 Charles Darwin
On Liberty 1859 John Stuart Mill
War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy
The Telephone Directory 1878 New Haven District Telephone Company
The Thousand and One Nights 1885 Translated by Sir Richard Burton
A Study in Scarlet 1888 Arthur Conan Doyle
The Interpretation of Dreams 1899 Sigmund Freud
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 1905
Poems 1920 Wilfred Owen
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory 1920 Albert Einstein
Ulysses 1922 James Joyce
Lady Chatterley’s Lover 1928 D.H. Lawrence
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 1936 John Maynard Keynes
If This is a Man 1947 Primo Levi
Nineteen Eighty-four 1949 George Orwell
The Second Sex 1949 Simone de Beauvoir
The Catcher in the Rye 1951 J.D. Salinger
Things Fall Apart 1958 Chinua Achebe
Silent Spring 1962 Rachel Carson
Quotations from Chairman Mao 1964 Mao Zedong
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 1997 J.K. Rowling