The Times Literary Supplement "Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War" List

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(including sixteen "seminal works published before the Second World War but which have had a major influence since the war")

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  1. 1.
    The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Simone de Beauvoir

  2. 2.
    Historian's Craft
    by Marc Bloch

  3. 3.

  4. 4.
    The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
    by James Burnham

  5. 5.
    Myth of Sisyphus (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Albert Camus

  6. 6.
    The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Albert Camus

  7. 7.
    The Idea of History: With Lectures 1926-1928
    by R. G. Collingwood

  8. 8.
    The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics)
    by Erich Fromm

  9. 9.
    Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present)
    by Max Horkheimer

  10. 10.
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    The Perennial Scope of Philosophy.
    by Karl Jaspers

  11. 11.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

  12. 12.
    Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine)
    by Andre Malraux

  13. 14.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  14. 15.
    1984
    by George Orwell

  15. 18.
    Economics: The Original 1948 Edition
    by Paul Samuelson

  16. 19.
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    Existentialism & Humanism
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  17. 20.
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
    by Joseph Schumpeter

  18. 21.
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    Power Politics
    by Martin Wright

  19. 22.

  20. 23.
    The Opium of the Intellectuals
    by Raymond Aron

  21. 25.
    Mythologies
    by Roland Barthes

  22. 26.
    Winston S. Churchill: The Second World War
    by Winston Churchill

  23. 29.
    Images and Symbols
    by Mircea Eliade

  24. 31.
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    The Struggle for History (Combats pour l'Histoire)
    by Lucien Febvre

  25. 32.
    The Affluent Society (Penguin Business)
    by John Kenneth Galbraith

  26. 33.
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    The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
    by Erving Goffman

  27. 34.
    The God That Failed
    by Arthur Koestler

  28. 35.
    If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Primo Levi

  29. 36.
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    A World on The Wane
    by Levi-Strauss. C.

  30. 37.
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    The Captive Mind (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Czeslaw Milosz

  31. 38.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

  32. 39.
    The Lonely Crowd
    by David Riesman

  33. 41.
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    The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
    by C. P. Snow

  34. 42.
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    Natural Right and History
    by Leo Strauss

  35. 43.
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    The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
    by Jacob Leib Talmon

  36. 45.
    A Study of History, Vol. 2: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X
    by Arnold J. Toynbee

  37. 46.
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    Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power
    by Karl A. Wittfogel

  38. 48.
    Eichmann in Jerusalem (Penguin Classics)
    by Hannah Arendt

  39. 50.
    Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
    by Isaiah Berlin

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