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50 Books That Changed the World

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

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