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Author	Title	Date	Language
Jewish scripture	Torah	13th-4th century BCE	Hebrew
Chinese classic text	I Ching	late 9th century BCE	Classical Chinese
Homer	Iliad and Odyssey	8th-early 7th century BCE	Ancient Greek
Hindu scripture	Upanishads	7th-5th century BCE	Sanskrit
Lao Tsu	Tao Te Ching	3rd century BCE	Classical Chinese
Zoroastrian scripture	Avesta	3rd century BCE--3rd century AD	Avestan
Confucius	Analects	5th-4th century BCE	Classical Chinese
Thucydides	History of the Peloponnesian War	5th century BCE	Ancient Greek
Hippocrates	Works	400 BCE	Ancient Greek
Aristotle	Works	4th century BCE	Ancient Greek
Herodotus	Histories	4th century BCE	Ancient Greek
Plato	The Republic	380 BCE	Ancient Greek
Euclid	Elements	280 BCE	Ancient Greek
Theravada Buddhist scripture	Dhammapada (Path of the Dharma)	252 BCE
Virgil	Aeneid	19 BCE	Latin
Lucretius	On the Nature of Reality	55 BCE	Latin
Philo of Alexandria	Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Law	1st century AD	Koine Greek
Christian scripture	New Testament	ca. 50-100 AD	Koine Greek
Plutarch	Parallel Lives	120 AD	Koine Greek
Cornelius Tacitus	Annals, From the Death of the Divine Augustus	120 AD	Latin
Valentinus	Gospel of Truth (Gnostic text)	2nd century AD
Marcus Aurelius	Meditations	167 AD	Koine Greek
Sextus Empiricus	Outlines of Pyrrhonism	150-210 AD	Koine Greek
Plotinus	Enneads	3rd century AD	Koine Greek
Augustine of Hippo	Confessions	400 AD	Latin
Muslim scripture	Quran	7th century AD	Arabic
Moses Maimonides	Guide for the Perplexed	1190	Arabic
Text of Judaic mysticism	Kabbalah	12th century	Hebrew
Thomas Aquinas	Summa Theologiae	1266-1273	Latin
Dante Alighieri	The Divine Comedy	1321	Italian
Desiderius Erasmus	In Praise of Folly	1509	Latin
Niccolo Machiavelli	The Prince	1532	Italian
Martin Luther	On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church	1520	Latin
Francois Rabelais	Gargantua and Pantagruel	1534 & 1532	French
John Calvin	Institutes of the Christian Religion	1536	Latin
Nicolaus Copernicus	On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres	1543	Latin
Michael Eyquem de Montaigne	Essays	1580	French
Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	1605 & 1615	Spanish
Johannes Kepler	Harmony of the Worlds	1619	Latin
Francis Bacon	Novum Organum	1620	Latin
William Shakespeare	First Folio	1623	English
Galileo Galilei	Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems	1632	Italian
Rene Descartes	Discourse on Method	1637	French
Thomas Hobbes	Leviathan	1651	English
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	Works	1663-1716	Latin/French
Blaise Pascal	Pensées	1670	French
Baruch de Spinoza	Ethics	1677	Latin
John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	1678-1684	English
Isaac Newton	Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy	1687	Latin
John Locke	Essay Concerning Human Understanding	1689	English
George Berkeley	Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge	1710, revised 1734	English
Giambattista Vico	The New Science	1725, revised 1744	Italian
David Hume	A Treatise of Human Nature	1739-1740	English
Denis Diderot (ed.)	Encyclopédie	1751-1772	French
Samuel Johnson	A Dictionary of the English Language	1755	English
Francois-Marie de Voltaire	Candide	1759	French
Thomas Paine	Common Sense	1776	English
Adam Smith	The Wealth of Nations	1776	English
Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	1776-1787	English
Immanuel Kant	Critique of Pure Reason	1781, revised 1787	German
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Confessions	1781	French
Edmund Burke	Reflections on the Revolution in France	1790	English
Mary Wollstonecraft	Vindication of the Rights of Woman	1792	English
William Godwin	An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice	1793	English
Thomas Robert Malthus	An Essay on the Principle of Population	1798, revised 1803	English
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Phenomenology of Spirit	1807	German
Arthur Schopenhauer	The World as Will and Idea	1819	German
Auguste Comte	Course in the Positivist Philosophy	1830-1842	French
Carl von Clausewitz	On War	1832	German
Soren Kierkegaard	Either/Or	1843	Danish
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels	Communist Manifesto	1848	German
Henry David Thoreau	Civil Disobedience	1849	English
Charles Darwin	The Origin of Species	1859	English
John Stuart Mill	On Liberty	1859	English
Herbert Spencer	First Principles	1862	English
Gregor Mendel	Experiments on Plant Hybridization	1866	German
Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	1868-1869	Russian
James Clerk Maxwell	Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism	1873	English
Friedrich Nietzsche	Thus Spake Zarathustra	1883-1885	German
Sigmund Freud	The Interpretation of Dreams	1900	German
William James	Pragmatism	1908	English
Albert Einstein	Relativity	1916
Vilfredo Pareto	The Mind and Society	1916	Italian
Carl Gustav Jung	Psychological Types	1921	German
Martin Buber	I and Thou	1923	German
Franz Kafka	The Trial	1925	German
Karl Popper	The Logic of Scientific Discovery	1934	German
John Maynard Keynes	General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money	1936	English
Jean-Paul Sartre	Being and Nothingness	1943	French
Friedrich von Hayek	The Road to Serfdom	1944	English
Simone de Beauvoir	The Second Sex	1948	French
Norbert Wiener	Cybernetics	1948, revised 1961	English
George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty-Four	1949	English
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff	Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson	1950
Ludwig Wittgenstein	Philosophical Investigations	1953	German
Noam Chomsky	Syntactic Structures	1957	English
Thomas Kuhn	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions	1962, revised 1970	English
Betty Friedan	The Feminine Mystique	1963	English
Mao Zedong	Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book)	1966	Chinese
B. F. Skinner	Beyond Freedom and Dignity	1971	English

References

Seymour-Smith, Martin (1998). "The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today", Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ.

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