The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith, a British poet, critic, and biographer. Published in 1998.
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Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B. F. Skinner · 1971 · 2 lists
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Quotations from Chairman Mao
Anonymous · 1972 · 3 lists
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The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan · 1963 · 5 lists
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn · 1962 · 5 lists
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Syntactic Structures
Noam Chomsky · 1957 · 2 lists
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Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953 · 1 list
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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff · 1950 · 1 list
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1948 · 36 lists
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Cybernetics
Norbert Wiener · 1948 · 2 lists
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The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir · 1949 · 6 lists
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The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich von Hayek · 1944 · 3 lists
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Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre · 1966 · 4 lists
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper · 1934 · 1 list
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The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925 · 21 lists
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I and Thou
Martin Buber · 1923 · 2 lists
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Psychological Types
C.G. Jung · 2021 · 1 list
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The mind and society
Vilfredo Pareto · 1963 · 1 list
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Relativity
Albert Einstein · 1925 · 4 lists
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Pragmatism
William James · 1999 · 5 lists
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud · 2018 · 10 lists
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · 2011 · 7 lists
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Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
James Clerk Maxwell · 1873 · 1 list
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
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Experiments on Plant Hybridization
Gregor Mendel · 1993 · 1 list
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First Principles
Herbert Spencer · 1860 · 1 list
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On Liberty
John Stuart Mill · 1859 · 4 lists
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On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 1859 · 7 lists
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Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau · 1849 · 2 lists
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Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels · 1848 · 3 lists
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Either Or
Soren Kierkegaard · 1992 · 2 lists
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On War
Carl von Clausewitz · 2020 · 3 lists
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The Course in Positive Philosophy
Auguste Comte · 2002 · 1 list
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
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The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan · 1678 · 5 lists
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Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes · 1651 · 5 lists
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Essays
Michel de Montaigne · 1618 · 11 lists
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The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli · 1515 · 5 lists
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais · 1930 · 7 lists
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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 25 lists
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Confessions
Augustine of Hippo · 1482 · 6 lists
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The Odyssey
Homer · -800 · 21 lists
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The Republic
Plato · 375 · 6 lists
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides · 1526 · 7 lists
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The Aeneid
Virgil · 19 · 10 lists
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Upanishads
Unknown · 1957 · 1 list
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Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu · 1 list
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Avesta
Zoroastrian scripture · 2009 · 1 list
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Hippocratic Corpus
Hippocrates · 2014 · 1 list
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Corpus Aristotelicum
Aristotle · 2016 · 2 lists
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The Histories of Herodotus
Herodotus · 1899 · 7 lists
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Euclid's Elements
Euclid · 1847 · 1 list
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Dhammapada
Unknown · 2012 · 1 list
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De Rerum Natura
Lucretius · 1991 · 4 lists
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Parallel Lives
Plutarch · 1983 · 5 lists
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Annals
Cornelius Tacitus · 1890 · 2 lists
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Gospel of Truth
Valentinus · 2018 · 1 list
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 170 · 6 lists
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Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Sextus Empiricus · 1933 · 1 list
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The Guide for the Perplexed
Maimonides · 1190 · 1 list
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Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas · 1467 · 2 lists
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The Praise of Folly
Erasmus · 1946 · 1 list
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Three Treatises
Martin Luther · 1943 · 1 list
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Institutes of the Christian Religion
John Calvin · 2009 · 1 list
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Nicolaus Copernicus · 1995 · 1 list
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The Harmony of the Worlds
Johannes Kepler · 1997 · 1 list
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Novum Organum
Francis Bacon · 1620 · 1 list
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo · 1953 · 4 lists
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Discourse on Method
Rene Descartes · 1937 · 3 lists
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Works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1718 · 1 list
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Pensées
Blaise Pascal · 1672 · 6 lists
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Ethics
Baruch de Spinoza · 1558 · 4 lists
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Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton · 1687 · 2 lists
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke · 1690 · 2 lists
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The New Science
Giambattista Vico · 1988 · 1 list
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A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume · 1739 · 1 list
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Encyclopédie
Denis Diderot · 2001 · 3 lists
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A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson · 1747 · 1 list
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Common Sense
Thomas Paine · 1776 · 2 lists
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · 1776 · 3 lists
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · 1776 · 5 lists
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Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant · 2016 · 4 lists
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Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1782 · 5 lists
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke · 1790 · 1 list
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792 · 2 lists
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Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
William Godwin · 1793 · 1 list
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An Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Robert Malthus · 1798 · 1 list
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The World as Will and Idea
Arthur Schopenhauer · 1888 · 1 list
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First Folio
William Shakespeare · 1953 · 8 lists
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Phenomenology of Mind
G.W.F. Hegel · 1907 · 1 list
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