Twenty Most Influential Books
A lot of people read second hand books in this World. Some love reading, some read to improve their knowledge and some read because they want to improve their vocabulary and grammar. People want to know what the top influential books in the World are, whether they are beginners or people who have been reading for a while. There are many but I will only be talking about the top twenty.
People have argued in the past why are so many religious books on the list but you cannot hide the fact that religion has always been influential in human history. Here are the top twenty influential books recommended by Seymour Smith in no particular order.
The Old Testament, The Iliad and The Odysseyby Homer, The I Ching Chinese classic texts, The Way and Its Power, Lao-tzu, The Upanishads, Hindu scripture, The Avesta, Analects Confucius, Thucydides, Works Hippocrates, History of the Peloponnesian War, Works Aristotle, History Herodotus, The Republic Plato, Elements Euclid, The Dhammapada, On the Nature of Reality, Lucretius Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws, Aeneid Virgil, The New Testament, Annals from the Death of the Divine Augustus Cornelius Tacitus, Lives Plutarch, Philo of Alexandria.
Yes unfortunately most of them are religious books but they do hold a massive importance on people’s lives. Here are some of the books I feel should be in the top 20 if not then top 50 certainly.
The First Folio by William Shakespeare, Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, Married Love by Marie Stopes, Book of Rules of Association Football by a group of former English public school men, A vindication of the Rights Of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, Magna Carta by members of the English ruling classes and On the Abolition of the Slave trade by William Wilberforce.
If you have any non fiction books or children’s books or any other books that you feel should be in top 100 then feel free to comment below.