Influential Books (100)
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1. I Ching
2. The Old Testament
3. Homer, The Illiad, The Odyssey
4. Upanishads
5. Tao Te Ching
6. Zend Avesta
7. Confucius, The Analects
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8. Thucydides, History Peloponnesian War
9. Hippocrates, Oath, Works
10. Aristotle, Organon
11. Herodotus, History
12. Plato, The Republic
13. Euclid, Elements
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14. The Dhammapada
15. Vigil, Aeneid
16. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
17. Philo, Allegorical Interpretations
18. The New Testament
19. Plutarch, Parallel Lives
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20. Tacitus, Histories
21. Gospel of Truth
22. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
23. Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhonism
24. Plotinus, The Enneads
25. St. Augustine, Confessions
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26. The Koran
27. Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed
28. The Kabbalah
29. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
30. Dante, Divine Comedy
31. Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
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32. Machiavelli, The Prince
33. Martin Luther, Reformation
34. Rabelais, Gargantua, Pantagruel
35. Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
36. Copernicus, Revolution of Celestial Orbs
37. Montaigne, Essays
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38. Cervante, Don Quixote
39. Kepler, Harmony of the World
40. Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
41. Shakespeare, Works
42. Galileo, Two Systems
43. Descartes, The Method
44. Hobbes, Leviathan
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45. Leibniz, Works
46. Pascal, Pensees
47. Spinoza, Ethics
48. Bunyan, Pilgrims Progress
49. Newton, Mathematical Principles
50. Locke, Essay on Human Understanding
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51. Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge
52. Vico, The New Science
53. Hume, Treatise on Human Nature
54. Diderot, Encyclopedie
55. Johnson, English Dictionary
56. Voltaire, Candide
57. Pain, Common Sense
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58. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
59. Gibbon, Fall of the Roman Empire
60. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
61. Rousseau, Confessions
62. Burke, French Revolution
63. Wollstonecraft, Rights of Women
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64. Godwin, Political Justice
65. Malthus, Population and Power
66. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
67. Schopenhauer, World as Will and Idea
68. Comte, Positive Philosophy
69. Clausewitz, On War
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70. Kierkegaard, Either/Or
71. Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto
72. Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
73. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
74. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
75. Herbert Spencer, First Principles
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76. Mendel, Plant Hybridization
77. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
78. Maxwell, Electricity and Magnetism
79. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
80. Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
81. William James, Pragmatism
82. Albert Einstein, The Theory of Relativity
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83. Vilfredo Pareto, Mind and Society
84. Carl Jung, Psychological Types
85. Martin Buber, I and Thou
86. Franz Kafka, The Trial
87. Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery
88. John Keynes, Employment
89. Jean Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
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90. Fredrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
91. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
92. Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics
93. George Orwell, 1984
94. George Gurdjieff, Tales to My Grandson
95. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
96. Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures
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97. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
98. Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolution
99. Mao Zedong, Little Red Book
100. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity