Books That Changed the World

50 Books That Changed the World

  1. Bhagavad Gita - discourse of Sri Krishna and Arjuna on the Battlefield of Kurushetra
  2. The Iliad - Home - 8th Century BC
  3. The Histories - Herodotus - True Lies - 8th Century BC
  4. The Dhammapada - Sayings of the Buddha
  5. The Analects - Confucius - 5th Century
  6. The Republic - Plato - 4th Century
  7. The Bible - King James Version 2nd Century AD
  8. Odes -Horace
  9. Geographia - Ptolemy 100- 170
  10. The Qu'ran - 7th Century
  11. Canon of Medicine - Avicenna 1025
  12. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer 1390s
  13. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes 1605
  14. First Folio - William Shakespeare 1623
  15. An Anatomical Study of the motion of the heart and blood in Animals - William Harvey
  16. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - Galileo Galilei - 1632
  17. Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton 1687
  18. A Dictionary of the English Language - Samuel Johnson 1755
  19. The Sorrows of Young Werhter - Johann Wolfgang von Goether 1774
  20. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith 1776
  21. Common Sense - Thomas Paine 1776
  22. Lyrical Ballads - William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798
  23. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin 1813
  24. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - 1843
  25. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx - 1848
  26. Moby Dick - Herman Melville 1851
  27. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852
  28. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 1857
  29. On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin - 1859
  30. On Liberty - John Stuart Mill - 1859
  31. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 1869
  32. The Telephone Directory - New Haven Telephone Company - 1878
  33. The Thousand and One Nights - Sir Richard Burton - 1885
  34. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle - 1888
  35. The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud - 1899
  36. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - Mein Kampf - 1905
  37. Poems - Wilfred Owen - 1920
  38. Relativity : The Special and General Theory - Albert Einstein 1920
  39. Ulysses - James Joyce 1922
  40. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence 1928
  41. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money John Maynard Keynes - 1936
  42. The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
  43. If this is a Man - Primo Levi 1947
  44. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  45. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - 1949
  46. The Second Sex - Simone De Beauvoir - 1949
  47. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger - 1951
  48. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkien
  49. Silent Spring - Rachel Carson - 1962
  50. Quotations from Chairman Mao - Mao Zedong 1964
  51. Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone - J.K.Rowling 1997

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