Book awards: The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

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Beyond Freedom & Dignity by B. F. Skinner	1971
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein	1953
The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton	1687
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke	1684
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come by John Bunyan	1684
Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza	1677
Pensées by Blaise Pascal	1670
Philosophical Writings (Everyman Paperback Classics) by Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Leibniz	1663
Leviathan, or the matter, form and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiastical and civil by Thomas Hobbes	1651
Discours de la methode & Meditations by René Descartes	1637
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei	1632
The First Folio of Shakespeare: The Norton Facsimile by William Shakespeare	1623
Francis Bacon: The New Organon by Francis Bacon	1620
Harmonies Of The World by Johannes Kepler	1619
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes	1615
Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne	1580
On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus	1543
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin	1536
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais	1534
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli	1532
Three Treatises by Martin Luther	1520
In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus	1509
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri	1321
Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas	1273
The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides	1190
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius	167
The Aeneid by Virgili
The Analects by Confucius
The Annals by Tacitus
Avesta: The Religious Books of the Parsees. Volumes 1-3 by Arthur Henry Bleeck
The Basic Works of Aristotle by Aristoteles
Confessions by Saint Augustine
The Dhammapada by Anonymous
Elements, books 1-2 by Euclid
The Greek New Testament by Kurt Aland
Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates
The Histories by Herodotus
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
The I Ching or Book of Changes by Richard Wilhelm
The Iliad by Homer
The Koran by Anonymous
The Nag Hammadi Library in English by James M. Robinson
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
Outlines of Pyrrhonism: Sextus Empiricus by Sextus Empiricus
Parallel Lives by Plutarchus
The Republic by Plato
The Six Enneads by Plotinus
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures--The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text by Jewish Publication Society
Tao Te Ching by Laozi
The Upanishads by Anonymous
The Works of Philo by Philo of Alexandria
Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Daniel Chanan Matt

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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 (1928–1998), a British poet, critic, and biographer.