<p>Le Morte d'Arthur. First English novel, kind of a big deal?</p>
<p>Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Smith: The Wealth of Nations
Hobbes: Leviathan
Marx: The Communist Manifesto
Aquinas: Summa Theologica
Paine: Common Sense
Machiavelli: The Prince
Darwin: Origin of Species</p>
<p>The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoevsky</p>
<p>Somewhat new compared to what the thers would be, but The Kite Runner is a great book :)</p>
<p>oooh, speaking of new books (well, maybe not so new), but Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.</p>
<p>I mean. It inspired a fatwa.</p>
<p>sometimes the simplist things in life fulfills you the most->simplicity wins all</p>
<p>Ulysses- Hate it or Love it
The Prince- Excellent
THE ANTI-CHRIST-Nietszche.......</p>
<p>Catcher in the Rye</p>
<p>The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty</p>
<p>Autobiography of Malcom X
Dreams from my Father- Barack Obama
Roots-Alex Haley
Man Child in the Promise Land
Makes me Wanna Holler- Nathan Mccall
How to be like Jesus - Pat Williams
Martin Luther King on Leadership-John Maxwell
A wrinkle in Time-Madelene L' Engle
The Bible of course</p>
<p>Makes me Wanna Holler- Nathan Mccall </p>
<p>that was that ish</p>
<p>Influential...Hmm
Bible
Koran
Torah
Art of Dao (Not exactly sure of the name)
Art of War
Vedas
The Prince
The Book of the Courtier
Two Treatises On Civil Government
Spirit of the Laws
Social Contract
New Atlantis
On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies, et al
Man and Superman
The Republic, Plato and Bodin
Encyclopedia, by Diderot
Dictionary, Webster's
Book of Mormon
98 Thesis
Institutions of the Christian Religion
Summa Theologica
Quotations from Chairmen Mao (aka Little Red Book)
Origin of Species
Plato's Socrates' and Aristotle's Dialogue
Decameron
The Prince
Candide
Some work by Descartes
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Adventures of Huck Finn
Christmas Carol
Catcher in the Rye
Catch 22
The Jungle
The Influence of Sea Power on History
Plutach's Parallel Lives
Herodotus' work
Reflections of the Revolution in France</p>
<p>Its more then twenty but they all deserve some CC recognition.</p>
<p>The Communist Manifesto
The Wealth of Nations
Common Sense
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Gulag Archipelago
The Pentagon Papers
Mein Kampf
The Grapes of Wrath
The Jungle
Shakespeare's First Folio
Principia Mathematica (Newton)
On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres (Coppernicus)
Plato's Socratic dialogues (taken as a whole)
The King James Bible
On the Origin of Species
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Iliad and/or The Odyssey
The Koran
The Feminine Mystique
Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses (if they were compiled in book form....)</p>
<p>forgive my ignorance, but is the book of mormon really that influential?</p>
<p>Honorable mention:</p>
<p>Silent Spring
Conscience of a Conservative
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Don Quixote
A Critique of Pure Reason (Kant)
Gray's Anatomy
Aristotle- Physics/Metaphysics
All the President's Men
The Prince
The Last of the Mohicans</p>
<p>Only if you're Mormon..... woops! My intolerance is showing. Better put that baby to bed for the night.</p>
<p>TritiumKnight, I was amused to find that we have a lot of the same choices, but I <em>do</em> take issue with your inclusion of some obvious personal favorites, such as 'A Christmas Carol'. Granted, it's a heart-warming story of redemption during the Yuletide season, but what effect did it have on world events social, economic, or political? </p>
<p>And I'm sure you realized this immediately after you posted, but Luther actually posted ninety-five (rather than 98) theses on the cathedral door at Wittenberg. Sorry, don't mean to nitpick. I just think if we're going to be pretentious and name-drop like mad, we should at least get the important details right.</p>
<p>Kama Sutra
Soduku for Dummies
The Happy Hooker</p>
<p>(Not in any particular order)
1)-Religious texts
2)-1984
3)-The Odyssey
4)-Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
5)-Wealth of Nations
6)-Common Sense
7)-The Catcher and the Rye
8)-Communist Manifesto
9)-On the Origin of Species
10)-Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso
11)-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12)-The Feminine Mystique
13)-The Tale of Genji (The world's first novel; written by a Japanese woman)
14)-The Jungle
15)-Luther's Theses (Good idea, whoever listed that one first.)
16)-Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead
17)-First Folio
18)-Social Contract
19)-Silent Spring
20)-Ulysses</p>
<p>I forgot Ulysses! Never read it, but from what I've read <em>about</em> it, it seems like it definitely marked a stylistic turning point. That, and there was a big obscenity trial concerning its publication, too. So I guess it marked a turning point in literary morals, as well? Basically an important book.</p>