50 most influential books in history
Books in cultural circulation, sourced from @JeremyTate41 via x.com on x.com
37 of 50 matched our catalog.
Original source: https://x.com/JeremyTate41/status/2069867434589225015
- The Epic of Gilgamesh — Anonymous #1
- The Iliad — Homer #2
- The Odyssey — Homer #3
- The Republic — Plato #4
- The Art of War — Sun Tzu #5
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius #6
- The Histories — Herodotus #7
- The Analects — Confucius #8
- The Dhammapada — Anonymous #9
- The Upanishads — Anonymous #10
- The Prince — Kiera Cass #11
- Utopia — Thomas More #12
- Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra #13
- Hamlet — William Shakespeare #14
- King Lear — William Shakespeare #15
- Macbeth — William Shakespeare #16
- Paradise Lost — John Milton #17
- The Pilgrim's Progress — John Bunyan #18
- Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes #19
- The Origin of Species — Charles Darwin #20
- The Communist Manifesto — Karl Marx #21
- Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche #22
- On Liberty — John Stuart Mill #23
- The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky #24
- Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky #25
- War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy #26
- Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy #27
- The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald #28
- Middlemarch — George Eliot #29
- Moby-Dick or, The Whale — Herman Melville #30
- Great Expectations — Charles Dickens #31
- The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde #32
- 1984 — George Orwell #33
- Brave New World — Aldous Huxley #34
- Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury #35
- The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. Salinger #36
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee #37
Not in our catalog
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- The Gospels (New Testament)
- The Quran
- The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- The Commentaries by Julius Caesar
- Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
- The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
- The Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel
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