100 Books That Shaped World History

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The Complete Fables (600 BCE) by Aesop
Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott
The Divine Comedy (1308) by Dante Alighieri
Nicomachean Ethics (350 BCE) by Aristotle
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) by Dee Brown
The Good Earth (1931) by Pearl S. Buck
Book of the Dead (1240 BCE) by E. A. Wallis Budge
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson
O Pioneers! (1913) by Willa Cather
Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Second World War {complete} (1950) by Winston S. Churchill
The Republic and The Law (1928) by Cicero
The Analects (70 BCE) by Confucius
The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543) by Nicolaus Copernicus
The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) by Frederick Douglass
A Study in Scarlet (1888) by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Story of Civilization (1963) by Will Durant
Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916) by Albert Einstein
Nature (1836) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (1947) by Anne Frank
Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758 (1962) by Benjamin Franklin
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) by Sigmund Freud
The Feminine Mystique (1963) by Betty Friedan
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Epic of Gilgamesh (1700 BCE) by Gilgamesh Poet
Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) by Zane Grey
The Federalist Papers (1787) by Alexander Hamilton
The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) by Stephen Hawking
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
The Histories (420 BCE) by Herodotus
The Jewish State (1896) by Theodor Herzl
Siddhartha (1945) by Hermann Hesse
Hippocratic Writings (Penguin Classics) (1978) by Hippocrates
Mein Kampf (1925) by Adolf Hitler
The Iliad (750 BCE) by Homer
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
The Story of My Life (1903) by Helen Keller
Sons And Lovers (1913) by D. H. Lawrence
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
Two Treatises of Government (1689) by John Locke
The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London
Die Bibel (German Edition) (1912) by Martin Luther
The Prince (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli
Das Kapital (1861) by Karl Marx
Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell
Utopia (1553) by Thomas More
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
The Tale of Genji (2015) by Shikibu Murasaki
Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) by Ralph Nader
Principia Mathematica (1729) by Isaac Newton
Common Sense (1776) by Thomas Paine
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton
The Republic (380 BCE) by Plato
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1832) by Edgar Allan Poe
The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) by Marco Polo
The Koran (1861) by al-Qur'an
On the Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
Romeo and Juliet (1599) by William Shakespeare
The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair
The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (1973) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945) by Benjamin Spock
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1964) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Civil Disobedience (1849) by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace (1868) by Leo Tolstoy
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968) by Mao Tse-Tung
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1870) by Jules Verne
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1968) by Andreas Vesalius
A Treatise on Painting (1651) by Leonardo da Vinci
Up from Slavery (1901) by Booker T. Washington
The War of the Worlds (1897) by H. G. Wells
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft
Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright

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