Seymour-Smith's "100 Most Influential Books Ever Written"

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From "The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: From the Zend Avesta of Zarathustra to B.F. Skinner’s Beyond Freedom and Dignity":http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/367538 by Martin Seymour-Smith

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  1. 1.
    The I Ching or Book of Changes
    by C.F. Baynes

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  2. 2.
    A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge
    by George Berkeley

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  3. 3.
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    The Old Testament

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  4. 4.
    New Science (Penguin Classics)
    by Giambattista Vico

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  5. 5.
    Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
    by Homer

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  6. 6.
    Treatise of Human Nature
    by David Hume

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  7. 7.
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    Upanishads

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  8. 8.
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    L'Encyclopedie - 2 volumes
    by Denis Diderot

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  9. 9.
    Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition
    by Lao Tsu

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  10. 11.
    Avesta: The Religious Books of the Parsees. Volumes 1-3
    by Arthur Henry Bleeck

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  11. 12.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire

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  12. 13.
    The Analects of Confucius
    by Arthur Waley

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  13. 14.
    Common Sense
    by Thomas Paine

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  14. 15.
    The History Of The Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides

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  15. 17.
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    The genuine works of Hippocrates;
    by Hippocrates

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  16. 19.
    Critique of Pure Reason (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Immanuel Kant

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  18. 22.
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    Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  19. 23.
    The Republic (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato

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  20. 25.
    Euclid's Elements
    by Euclid

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  21. 26.
    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Wollstonecraft

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  22. 27.
    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  23. 28.
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    Experiments With Plant Hybrids
    by Gregor Mendel

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  25. 30.
    The Guide for the Perplexed
    by Moses Maimonides

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  26. 31.
    War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  27. 33.
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    The Kabbalah

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  28. 35.
    The Aenid
    by Virgil

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  29. 37.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

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  30. 38.
    An Essay on the Principle of Population
    by Thomas Robert Malthus

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  31. 39.
    The Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri

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  32. 40.
    The Interpretation Of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud

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  33. 41.
    The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura
    by Lucretius

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  34. 42.
    In Praise of Folly
    by Erasmus

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  35. 43.
    Pragmatism and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
    by William James

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  36. 44.
    Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
    by G. W. F. Hegel

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  37. 45.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  38. 46.

  39. 47.
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    Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws
    by Philo of Alexandria

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  40. 48.
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    On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
    by Martin Luther

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  41. 49.
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    The Mind and Society
    by Vilfredo Pareto

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Comments

Untitled — 1 year ago

two books that really shouldn’t be absent:
- The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
- Paradise Lost (John Milton)

Mein Kampf should probably get a mention as well. Certainly over things like The Republic, which are more about philosopher kings and tyrants than liberty and rule by the people.

The Magna Carta might also be worth a mention, although calling it a book might be stretching it a bit.


Numbering — 2 years ago

I just fixed up the numbering on this list. For some reason it was 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. etc.


Christopher
Peterborough

Untitled — 3 years ago

These kinds of lists irk me. Almost no female authors, dominated by literature from Western Europe, Japan, China and the US…

Surely on a global scale people have been influenced by other books? Have they never picked up a book of Khayyam? Achebe? Borges?