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Times Literary Supplement's "100 Most Influential Books Since World War II"

This list was published in the Oct 6, 1995 issue of The Times Literary Supplement.

1940s: 1-21
1950s: 22-47
1960s: 48-70
1970s: 71-85
1980s + 1990s: 86-100

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1. The Second Sex (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Simone de Beauvoir
  
2. Historian's Craft
by Marc Bloch
  
3. The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
by James Burnham
  
4. The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
by Albert Camus
  
5. The Stranger
by Albert Camus
  
6. The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics)
by Erich Fromm
  
7. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Max Horkheimer
  
8.
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 The Perennial Scope of Philosophy.
by Karl Jaspers
  
9. Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
  
10. Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine)
by Andre Malraux
  
11. Behemoth : the Structure and Practice of National Socialism 1933-1944
by Franz Neumann
  
12. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
13. Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell
  
14. The Great Transformation
by Karl Polanyi
  
15. The Open Society and Its Enemies (Routledge Classics)
by Karl R. Popper
  
16. Existentialism Is a Humanism
by Jean Paul Sartre
  
17. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
by Joseph A. Schumpeter
  
18.
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 Power Politics
by Martin Wright
  
19. The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power
by Hannah Arendt
  
20. The Opium of the Intellectuals
by Raymond Aron
  
21. Social Choice and Individual Values, Second edition (Cowles Foundation Monographs Series)
by Kenneth J. Arrow
  
22. Mythologies
by Roland Barthes
  
23. Pursuit of the Millennium
by Norman Cohn
  
24. The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System
by Milovan Djilas
  
25. Images and Symbols
by Mircea Eliade
  
26. YOUNG MAN LUTHER, A STUDY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HISTORY
by Erik H. Erikson
  
27.
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 The Struggle for History (Combats pour l'Histoire)
by Lucien Febvre
  
28. The Affluent Society (Penguin Business)
by John Kenneth Galbraith
  
29. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman
  
30.
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 The God That Failed: Six Studies in Communism
by Arthur Koestler & Richard Crossman (eds)
  
31. Survival In Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
  
32.
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 Tristes tropiques (A World on the Wane)
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
  
33. The Captive Mind
by Czeslaw Milosz
  
34. Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
  
35. The Lonely Crowd
by David Riesman
  
36.
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 Models of Man Social and Rational
by Herbert Simon
  
37.
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 The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
by C. P. Snow
  
38. Natural Right and History (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)
by Leo Strauss
  
39.
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 The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
by Jacob Leib Talmon
  
40. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 (Oxford History of Modern Europe)
by Alan J. Taylor
  
41.
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 Study of History
by Arnold Toynbee
  
42. Oriental Despotism : A Comparative Study of Total Power
by Karl A. Wittfogel
  
43. Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition)
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  
44. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)
by Hannah Arendt
  
45. The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties
by Daniel Bell
  
46. Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
by Isaiah Berlin
  
47. Crowds and Power
by Elias Canetti
  
48. Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City, Second Edition (Yale Studies in Political Science)
by Robert A. Dahl
  
49. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Routledge Classics)
by Mary Douglas
  
50.
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 Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
by Erik H Erikson
  
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