Book awards: The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

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Titles	Order
The I Ching or Book of Changes by Richard Wilhelm	1 - 14th century BCE
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures--The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text by JPS	13th–4th century BCE
The Iliad by Homer	8th – early 7th century BCE
The Odyssey by Homer	8th – early 7th century BCE
The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal by Anonymous	7th–5th century BCE
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu	3rd century BCE
Avesta: The Religious Books of the Parsees. Volumes 1-3 by Arthur Henry Bleeck	3rd century BCE – 3rd century CE
The Analects by Confucius	5th–4th century BCE
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides	5th century BCE
Hippocratic Writings (Penguin Classics) by Various	400 BCE
The Basic Works of Aristotle by Aristotle	4th century BCE
The Histories by Herodotus	2 - 5th century BCE
The Republic by Plato	380 BCE
Elements, books 1-2 by Thomas L. Heath	280 BCE
The Dhammapada by Anonymous	252 BCE
The Aeneid by Virgil	19 BCE
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius	55 BCE
The Works of Philo by Philo of Alexandria	1st century
Novum Testamentum Graece by Kurt Aland	ca. 50–100 AD
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch	120 AD
The Annals by Tacitus	120 AD
The Nag Hammadi Library in English by James M. Robinson	2nd Century
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius	167
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Sextus Empiricus	150-210 AD
The Six Enneads by Plotinus	3rd century
Confessions by Saint Augustine	400 AD
The Koran by Anonymous	7th century
The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides	1190
Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Daniel Chanan Matt	12th century
Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas	1266–1273
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri	1321
In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus	1509
Three Treatises by Martin Luther	1520
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli	1532
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais	1534
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin	1536
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus	1543
The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne	1580
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes	1615
Harmonies Of The World (On the Shoulders of Giants) by Johannes Kepler	1619
The New Organon by Francis Bacon	1620
The First Folio of Shakespeare: The Norton Facsimile by William Shakespeare	1623
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science) by Galileo Galilei	1632
Discourse on Method / Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes	1637
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes	1651
Philosophical Writings (Everyman Paperback Classics) by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	1663
Pensées by Blaise Pascal	1670
The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza	1677
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke	1684
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan	1684
The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton	1687
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley	1710
New Science by Giambattista Vico	1725
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume	1740
A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar by Samuel Johnson	1755
Candide by Voltaire	1759
Encyclopedia: Selections by Denis Diderot	1751-1772
Common Sense by Thomas Paine	1776
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith	1776
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1781
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant	1787
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (abridged, Hadas) by Edward Gibbon	1776-1787
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke	1790
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft	1792
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness by William Godwin	1793
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus	1803
Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel	1807
The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer	1819
Introduction to Positive Philosophy by Auguste Comte	1830-1842
On War by Carl von Clausewitz	1832
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Søren Kierkegaard	1843
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx	1848
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau	1849
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill	1859
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin	1859
First Principles by Herbert Spencer	1862
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation by Gregor Mendel	1866
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy	1869
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell	1873
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche	1883-1885
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud	1900
Pragmatism by William James	1908
The mind and society [Trattato di Sociologia generale] by Vilfredo Pareto	1916
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein	1916
Psychological Types (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.6) by Carl Jung	1921
I And Thou by Martin Buber	1923
The Trial by Franz Kafka	1925
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper	1934
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes	1936
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre	1943
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek	1943
Cybernetics, or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener	1948
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir	1948
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell	1949
Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson by G. I. Gurdjieff	1950
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein	1953
Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky	1957
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn	1962
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan	1963
Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Mao Tse-Tung	1966
Beyond Freedom & Dignity by B. F. Skinner	1971

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The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith (1928–1998), a British poet, critic, and biographer.

Note, the list has 101 books listed because the original list has Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as one work - here, they are listed separately.

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