Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History || Andrew Taylor

1. The Iliad — c. 8th century BC, Homer
2. The Histories — 5th century BC, Herodotus
3. The Analects — 5th century BC, Confucius
4. The Republic — 4th century BC, Plato
5. The Bible — 2nd century BC–2nd century AD
6. Odes — 23–13 BC, Horace
7. Geographia — c. AD 100–170, Claudius Ptolemy
8. Kama Sutra — 2nd or 3rd century AD, Mallanaga Vatsyayana
9. The Qur'an — 7th century
10. The Canon of Medicine — 1025, Avicenna
11. The Canterbury Tales — 1380s–1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer
12. The Prince — 1532, Niccolò Machiavelli
13. Atlas, or, Cosmographic Meditations — 1585–1595, Gerard Mercator
14. Don Quixote — 1605–1615, Miguel de Cervantes
15. First Folio — 1623, William Shakespeare
16. An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals — 1628, William Harvey
17. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems — 1632, Galileo Galilei
18. Principia Mathematica — 1687, Isaac Newton
19. A Dictionary of the English Language — 1755, Samuel Johnson
20. The Sorrows of Young Werther — 1774, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
21. The Wealth of Nations — 1776, Adam Smith
22. Common Sense — 1776, Thomas Paine
23. Lyrical Ballads — 1798, William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge
24. Pride and Prejudice — 1813, Jane Austen
25. A Christmas Carol — 1843, Charles Dickens
26. The Communist Manifesto — 1848, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
27. Moby-Dick — 1851, Herman Melville
28. Uncle Tom's Cabin — 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe
29. Madame Bovary — 1857, Gustave Flaubert
30. On the Origin of Species — 1859, Charles Darwin
31. On Liberty — 1859, John Stuart Mill
32. War and Peace — 1869, Leo Tolstoy
33. The Telephone Directory — 1878, New Haven District Telephone Company
34. The Thousand and One Nights — 1885 edition, translated by Sir Richard Burton
35. A Study in Scarlet — 1888, Arthur Conan Doyle
36. The Interpretation of Dreams — 1899, Sigmund Freud
37. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion — 1905
38. Poems — 1920, Wilfred Owen
39. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory — 1920, Albert Einstein
40. Ulysses — 1922, James Joyce
41. Lady Chatterley's Lover — 1928, D. H. Lawrence
42. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money — 1936, John Maynard Keynes
43. If This Is a Man — 1947, Primo Levi
44. Nineteen Eighty-Four — 1949, George Orwell
45. The Second Sex — 1949, Simone de Beauvoir
46. The Catcher in the Rye — 1951, J. D. Salinger
47. Things Fall Apart — 1958, Chinua Achebe
48. Silent Spring — 1962, Rachel Carson
49. Quotations from Chairman Mao — 1964, Mao Zedong
50. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — 1997, J. K. Rowling