Lists of Bests: Times Literary Supplement's "100 Most Influential Books Since World War II" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/28419 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 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:44:10 GMT en-us 0 50 96 50 0 The Second Sex (Everyman's Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/164310 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/164310"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1857151372.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44184342_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone de Beauvoir</div> Historian's Craft http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2731723 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2731723"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/071903292X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marc Bloch</div> The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1853317 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1853317"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0837156785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Burnham</div> The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18762 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18762"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679733736.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46690014_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/569364 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/569364"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415253888.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erich Fromm</div> Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Cultural Memory in the Present) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24433 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24433"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0804736332.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Max Horkheimer</div> The Perennial Scope of Philosophy. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753069 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Jaspers</div> Darkness at Noon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15679 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15679"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553265954.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Koestler</div> Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/916037 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/916037"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679725741.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andre Malraux</div> Behemoth : the Structure and Practice of National Socialism 1933-1944 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1663166 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1663166"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E39JD2.01-A3O1P8RHHD8EPM._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Neumann</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1950527 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1950527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EVNTBM.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Nineteen Eighty-four http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499993 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499993"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140126716.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Great Transformation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24846 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24846"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080705643X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl Polanyi</div> The Open Society and Its Enemies (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89348 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89348"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415278422.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl R. Popper</div> Existentialism Is a Humanism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2564764 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2564764"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300115466.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Paul Sartre</div> Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494535 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494535"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415107628.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph A. Schumpeter</div> Power Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753127 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Wright</div> The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354163 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/354163"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805242252.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> The Opium of the Intellectuals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/574013 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/574013"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0765807009.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Aron</div> Social Choice and Individual Values, Second edition (Cowles Foundation Monographs Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1657334 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1657334"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300013647.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth J. Arrow</div> Mythologies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8581 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8581"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374521506.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roland Barthes</div> Pursuit of the Millennium http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753147 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753147"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0712656642.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Cohn</div> The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753156 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753156"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GS753Q.01-A3F0Z3BXDQJ51N._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milovan Djilas</div> Images and Symbols http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320813 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/320813"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/069102068X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mircea Eliade</div> YOUNG MAN LUTHER, A STUDY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HISTORY http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753166 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753166"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HFB1Y2.01-AM538YKOTEV1F._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43613143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik H. Erikson</div> The Struggle for History (Combats pour l'Histoire) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753180 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucien Febvre</div> The Affluent Society (Penguin Business) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934509 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934509"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140285199.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kenneth Galbraith</div> The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9966 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9966"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385094027.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067309580_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erving Goffman</div> The God That Failed: Six Studies in Communism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753202 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Koestler & Richard Crossman (eds)</div> Survival In Auschwitz http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19334 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19334"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684826801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Primo Levi</div> Tristes tropiques (A World on the Wane) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753232 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claude Lévi-Strauss</div> The Captive Mind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18708 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18708"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679728562.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Czeslaw Milosz</div> Doctor Zhivago http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2190606 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2190606"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GAMLQA.01-A2ELYYEK4MISVD._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43043379_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Boris Pasternak</div> The Lonely Crowd http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/334596 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/334596"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000DZG18W.01-A1DI3XXAD7CH18._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Riesman</div> Models of Man Social and Rational http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753243 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herbert Simon</div> The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753247 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. P. Snow</div> Natural Right and History (Walgreen Foundation Lectures) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5056 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5056"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226776948.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Strauss</div> The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1507192 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacob Leib Talmon</div> The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1780546 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1780546"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198221010.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan J. Taylor</div> Study of History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1787848 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arnold Toynbee</div> Oriental Despotism : A Comparative Study of Total Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753278 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2753278"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E0E4B2.01-AM0TBPF72AOXR._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43332798_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karl A. Wittfogel</div> Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35313 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35313"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0024288101.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ludwig Wittgenstein</div> Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1575511"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039881.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hannah Arendt</div> The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/996440 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/996440"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EJ2SWU.01-A34OFMG1ZO6MU6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Bell</div> Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4639 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4639"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019924989X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaiah Berlin</div> Crowds and Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8568 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8568"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374518203.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elias Canetti</div> Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City, Second Edition (Yale Studies in Political Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/977419 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/977419"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300103921.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert A. Dahl</div> Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Routledge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83540 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83540"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415289955.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Douglas</div> Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66446 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik H Erikson</div>