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

  2. 2.
    A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge
    by George Berkeley
  3. 3.
    ?
    The Old Testament

  4. 4.
    New Science (Penguin Classics)
    by Giambattista Vico
  5. 5.
    The Iliad / The Odyssey
    by Homer
  6. 6.
    Treatise of Human Nature
    by David Hume
  7. 7.
    ?
    Upanishads

  8. 8.
    L'Encyclopedie - 2 volumes (French Edition)
    by Denis Diderot
  11. 11.
    Avesta: The Religious Books of the Parsees. Volumes 1-3
    by Arthur Henry Bleeck
  12. 12.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire
  13. 13.
    The Analects of Confucius

  14. 14.
    Common Sense
    by Thomas Paine
  15. 15.
    The History Of The Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides
  17. 17.
    ?
    The genuine works of Hippocrates;
    by Hippocrates
  19. 19.
    Critique of Pure Reason (Penguin Classics)
    by Immanuel Kant
  20. 20.
  21. 21.
    The Histories (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Herodotus
  22. 22.
    ?
    Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  23. 23.
    The Republic (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato
  25. 25.
    Euclid's Elements
    by Euclid
  26. 26.
    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Wollstonecraft
  27. 27.
    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous
  28. 28.
    ?
    Experiments With Plant Hybrids
    by Gregor Mendel
  29. 29.
  30. 30.
    The Guide for the Perplexed
    by Moses Maimonides
  31. 31.
    War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  33. 33.
    ?
    The Kabbalah

  35. 35.
    The Aenid
    by Virgil
  36. 36.
    The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas (Five Volumes)
    by Thomas Aquinas
  37. 37.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche
  38. 38.
    An Essay on the Principle of Population
    by Thomas Robert Malthus
  39. 39.
  40. 40.
    The Interpretation Of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud
  42. 42.
    In Praise of Folly
    by Erasmus
  43. 43.
    Pragmatism and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
    by William James
  44. 44.
    Phenomenology of Spirit
    by G. W. F. Hegel
  45. 45.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli
  46. 46.
  47. 47.
    ?
    Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws
    by Philo of Alexandria
  48. 48.
    ?
    On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
    by Martin Luther
  49. 49.
    ?
    The Mind and Society
    by Vilfredo Pareto

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Comments

Saladino

Untitled — 4 years 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.

May 12, 09:47PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

bah

Numbering — 5 years ago

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

Feb 28, 04:56AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Christopher

Untitled — 6 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?

May 22, 12:26AM | 2 comments | Reply to this



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