10 Most Influential and Significant Books in history (non-religious)

The Illiad and Odessey, Homer. 8^th Century BCE

Histories, Herodotus. 5^th Century BCE

The Republic, Plato. 380 BCE

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, 167

The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli. 1532

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Nicolaus Copernicus. 1543

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton. 1687

Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith. 1776

The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx. 1848

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin. 1859

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One Response to “10 Most Influential and Significant Books in history (non-religious)”

Andrew Says:
September 2, 2010 at 12:58 am | Reply
I think that Hitler’s Mein Kampf should make the list on the grounds that it attributed in ways to his rise in power, ultimately attributing to the holocaust.

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