The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith, a British poet, critic, and biographer.[1]

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today.
AuthorMartin Seymour-Smith
Cover artistFrancis Cugat
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublishedSeptember 1998, Citadel
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
ISBN978-0806520001
OCLC38258131

The list includes books such as the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), Candide (a French satire from the Age of Enlightenment) and The World as Will and Representation (a book of German philosophy).

The most influential book ever written according to Martin Seymour-Smith is Holy Bible: King James Version

List
  1. The I Ching, by King Wen of Zhou and the Duke of Zhou (according to tradition); Compilation of classic Chinese texts
  2. The Hebrew Bible, by several authors; Compilation of classic Hebrew books
  3. The Iliad and Odyssey, by Homer (according to tradition)
  4. The Upanishads, by several authors (Rishis [sages]); Compilation of classic Indian books
  5. Tao Te Ching, by Laozi
  6. The Avesta, by several authors (including Zoroaster); Compilation of classic Persian books
  7. Analects, by Confucius
  8. History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
  9. Hippocratic Corpus, several authors, one of whom is Hippocrates, who gives the collection its name.
  10. Corpus Aristotelicum, by Aristotle, compilation of books of the author
  11. Histories, by Herodotus
  12. Republic, by Plato
  13. Elements, by Euclid
  14. The Dhammapada, by Siddartha Gautama
  15. Aeneid, by Virgil
  16. De rerum natura, by Lucretius
  17. Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws, by Philo of Alexandria
  18. The New Testament, by Saint Paul and other authors; compilation of early Christian writings
  19. Parallel Lives, by Plutarch
  20. Annals, by Cornelius Tacitus
  21. Gospel of Truth, by Valentinus
  22. Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
  23. Outlines of Pyrrhonism, by Sextus Empiricus
  24. The Enneads, by Plotinus
  25. Confessions, by Augustine of Hippo
  26. The Quran, traditionally believed to have been dictated to Mohammad by Allah, later written down by early Muslims; definitive text produced by Uthman ibn Affan
  27. The Guide for the Perplexed, by Moses Maimonides
  28. The Zohar, by several authors; Compilation of texts of the Kabbalah
  29. Summa Theologica, by Thomas Aquinas
  30. Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
  31. In Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus
  32. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
  33. On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, by Martin Luther
  34. Gargantua and Pantagruel, by François Rabelais
  35. Institutes of the Christian Religion, by John Calvin
  36. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, by Nicolaus Copernicus
  37. Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  38. Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
  39. Harmonices Mundi, by Johannes Kepler
  40. Novum Organum, by Francis Bacon
  41. The First Folio, by William Shakespeare, compilation of works of the author
  42. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, by Galileo Galilei
  43. Discourse on the Method, by René Descartes
  44. Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
  45. Works, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  46. Pensées, by Blaise Pascal
  47. Ethics, by Baruch de Spinoza
  48. The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
  49. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, by Isaac Newton
  50. Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke
  51. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
  52. The New Science, by Giambattista Vico
  53. A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
  54. Encyclopédie, by Denis Diderot
  55. A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson
  56. Candide, by François-Marie de Voltaire
  57. Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
  58. The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
  59. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon
  60. Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant
  61. Confessions, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  62. Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke
  63. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
  64. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, by William Godwin
  65. An Essay on the Principle of Population, by Thomas Robert Malthus
  66. The Phenomenology of Spirit, by George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  67. The World as Will and Representation, by Arthur Schopenhauer
  68. Course of Positive Philosophy, by Auguste Comte
  69. On War, by Carl von Clausewitz
  70. Either/Or, by Søren Kierkegaard
  71. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  72. Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
  73. On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
  74. On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
  75. First Principles of a New System of Philosophy, Herbert Spencer
  76. Experiments on Plant Hybridization, by Gregor Mendel
  77. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
  78. Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, by James Clerk Maxwell
  79. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
  80. The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud
  81. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, by William James
  82. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, by Albert Einstein
  83. The Mind and Society, by Vilfredo Pareto
  84. Psychological Types, by Carl Gustav Jung
  85. I and Thou, by Martin Buber
  86. The Trial, by Franz Kafka
  87. The Logic of Scientific Discovery, by Karl Popper
  88. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, by John Maynard Keynes
  89. Being and Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Sartre
  90. The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich von Hayek
  91. The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir
  92. Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, by Norbert Wiener
  93. Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
  94. Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
  95. Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  96. Syntactic Structures, by Noam Chomsky
  97. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by T. S. Kuhn
  98. The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
  99. The Little Red Book, by Mao Zedong
  100. Beyond Freedom and Dignity, by B. F. Skinner

See also

References
  1. Seymour-Smith, Martin (1998). The 100 most influential books ever written : the history of thought from ancient times to today. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publ. Group. ISBN 978-0806520001. OCLC 38258131.
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