Book Awards100 Books That Shaped World History

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Works (96)

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