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The 100 Most Influential BooksEver Written: The History of
Thought from Ancient Times toToday
Author Martin Seymour-Smith
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher Citadel
Publication date September, 1998
Media type Print (hardcover and
paperback)
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The 100 Most InfluentialBooks Ever Written: TheHistory of Thought fromAncient Times to Today(1998) is a book ofintellectual history writtenby Martin Seymour-Smith, aBritish poet, critic, andbiographer.
Chronological list
The one hundred mostinfluential books, accordingto Seymour-Smith, in theapproximate chronological order he gives:
# Author or source Title Date
1Chinese classictexts
I Ching14th centuryBCE
2 Jewish scripture Hebrew Bible13th–4thcentury BCE
3 Homer Iliad and Odyssey8th – early 7thcentury BCE
4 Hindu scripture Upanishads7th–5thcentury BCE
5 Lao Tsu Tao Te Ching3rd centuryBCE
Zoroastrian3rd century
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6Zoroastrianscripture
Avesta BCE – 3rdcentury AD
7 Confucius Analects5th–4thcentury BCE
8 ThucydidesHistory of thePeloponnesian War
5th centuryBCE
9 Hippocrates Works 400 BCE
10 Aristotle Works4th centuryBCE
11 Herodotus Histories5th centuryBCE
12 Plato The Republic 380 BCE
13 Euclid Elements 280 BCE
14TheravadaBuddhist scripture
Dhammapada (Path of theDharma)
252 BCE
15 Virgil Aeneid 19 BCE
16 Lucretius De Rerum Natura 55 BCE
17 Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Expositions ofthe Holy Laws
1st century
18 Christian scripture New Testamentca. CE 50– CE100
19 Plutarch Parallel Lives CE 120
20 Cornelius TacitusAnnals, From the Death ofthe Divine Augustus
CE 120
21 ValentinusGospel of Truth (Gnostictext)
2nd century
22 Marcus Aurelius Meditations 167
23 Sextus Empiricus Outlines of Pyrrhonism CE 150-210
24 Plotinus Enneads 3rd century
25 Augustine of Hippo Confessions CE 400
26 Muslim scripture Quran 7th century
27 Moses Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed 1190
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28Text of Judaicmysticism
Kabbalah 12th century
29 Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae 1266–1273
30 Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy 1321
31 Desiderius Erasmus In Praise of Folly 1509
32NiccolòMachiavelli
The Prince 1532
33 Martin LutherOn the Babylonian Captivityof the Church
1520
34 François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel 1532 & 1534
35 John CalvinInstitutes of the ChristianReligion
1536
36NicolausCopernicus
On the Revolutions of theHeavenly Spheres
1543
37Michael Eyquem deMontaigne
Essays 1580
38Miguel deCervantes
Don Quixote 1605 & 1615
39 Johannes Kepler Harmony of the Worlds 1619
40 Francis Bacon Novum Organum 1620
41WilliamShakespeare
First Folio 1623
42 Galileo GalileiDialogue Concerning theTwo Chief World Systems
1632
43 René Descartes Discourse on Method 1637
44 Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 1651
45Gottfried WilhelmLeibniz
Works 1663–1716
46 Blaise Pascal Pensées 1670
47 Baruch de Spinoza Ethics 1677
48 John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 1678–1684
49 Isaac NewtonMathematical Principles of
1687
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49 Isaac NewtonNatural Philosophy
1687
50 John LockeEssay Concerning HumanUnderstanding
1689
51 George BerkeleyTreatise Concerning thePrinciples of HumanKnowledge
1710, revised1734
52 Giambattista Vico The New Science1725, revised1744
53 David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature 1739–1740
54 Denis Diderot (ed.) Encyclopédie 1751–1772
55 Samuel JohnsonA Dictionary of the EnglishLanguage
1755
56François-Marie deVoltaire
Candide 1759
57 Thomas Paine Common Sense 1776
58 Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations 1776
59 Edward GibbonThe History of the Declineand Fall of the RomanEmpire
1776–1787
60 Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason1781, revised1787
61Jean-JacquesRousseau
Confessions 1781
62 Edmund BurkeReflections on theRevolution in France
1790
63MaryWollstonecraft
Vindication of the Rights ofWoman
1792
64 William GodwinAn Enquiry ConcerningPolitical Justice
1793
65Thomas RobertMalthus
An Essay on the Principle ofPopulation
1798, revised1803
66George WilhelmFriedrich Hegel
Phenomenology of Spirit 1807
Arthur
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67ArthurSchopenhauer
The World as Will and Idea 1819
68 Auguste ComteThe Course in PositivePhilosophy
1830–1842
69Carl vonClausewitz
On War 1832
70 Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or 1843
71Karl Marx &Friedrich Engels
Communist Manifesto 1848
72Henry DavidThoreau
Civil Disobedience 1849
73 Charles Darwin The Origin of Species 1859
74 John Stuart Mill On Liberty 1859
75 Herbert Spencer First Principles 1862
76 Gregor MendelExperiments on PlantHybridization
1866
77 Leo Tolstoy War and Peace 1868–1869
78James ClerkMaxwell
Treatise on Electricity andMagnetism
1873
79 Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra 1883–1885
80 Sigmund FreudThe Interpretation ofDreams
1900
81 William James Pragmatism 1908
82 Albert Einstein Relativity 1916
83 Vilfredo Pareto The Mind and Society 1916
84 Carl Gustav Jung Psychological Types 1921
85 Martin Buber I and Thou 1923
86 Franz Kafka The Trial 1925
87 Karl PopperThe Logic of ScientificDiscovery
1934
88John MaynardKeynes
General Theory ofEmployment, Interest, andMoney
1936
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89 Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness 1943
90Friedrich vonHayek
The Road to Serfdom 1944
91Simone deBeauvoir
The Second Sex 1948
92 Norbert Wiener Cybernetics1948, revised1961
93 George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
94George IvanovitchGurdjieff
Beelzebub's Tales to HisGrandson
1950
95LudwigWittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations 1953
96 Noam Chomsky Syntactic Structures 1957
97 Thomas KuhnThe Structure of ScientificRevolutions
1962, revised1970
98 Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique 1963
99 Mao ZedongQuotations From ChairmanMao Tse-tung (Little RedBook)
1966
100 B. F. SkinnerBeyond Freedom andDignity
1971
See also
List of best-selling booksThe 100 Best Books of All Time
References
Seymour-Smith, Martin (1998). The 100 Most Influential BooksEver Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today,Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ, 1998, ISBN 0806520000
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