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Books Ever Written: The Ever Written: The History of
History of Thought from Thought from Ancient Times to
Ancient Times to Today Today
(1998) is a book of
intellectual history written Author Martin Seymour-Smith
by Martin Seymour-Smith, a Country United Kingdom
British poet, critic, and
biographer. Language English
Publisher Citadel
Chronological list Publication date September, 1998
Media type Print (hardcover and
The one hundred most
paperback)
influential books, according
to Seymour-Smith, in the
approximate chronological order he gives:
# Author or source Title Date

Chinese classic 14th century
1 I Ching
texts BCE
13th–4th
2 Jewish scripture Hebrew Bible
century BCE
8th – early 7th
3 Homer Iliad and Odyssey
century BCE
7th–5th
4 Hindu scripture Upanishads
century BCE
3rd century
5 Lao Tsu Tao Te Ching
BCE
3rd century
Zoroastrian
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6 Avesta BCE – 3rd
scripture
century AD
5th–4th
7 Confucius Analects
century BCE
History of the 5th century
8 Thucydides
Peloponnesian War BCE
9 Hippocrates Works 400 BCE
4th century
10 Aristotle Works
BCE
5th century
11 Herodotus Histories
BCE
12 Plato The Republic 380 BCE
13 Euclid Elements 280 BCE
Theravada Dhammapada (Path of the
14 252 BCE
Buddhist scripture Dharma)
15 Virgil Aeneid 19 BCE
16 Lucretius De Rerum Natura 55 BCE
Allegorical Expositions of
17 Philo of Alexandria 1st century
the Holy Laws
ca. CE 50– CE
18 Christian scripture New Testament
100
19 Plutarch Parallel Lives CE 120
Annals, From the Death of
20 Cornelius Tacitus CE 120
the Divine Augustus
Gospel of Truth (Gnostic
21 Valentinus 2nd century
text)
22 Marcus Aurelius Meditations 167
23 Sextus Empiricus Outlines of Pyrrhonism CE 150-210
24 Plotinus Enneads 3rd century
25 Augustine of Hippo Confessions CE 400
26 Muslim scripture Quran 7th century
27 Moses Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed 1190
Text of Judaic
28 Kabbalah 12th century
mysticism
29 Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae 1266–1273
30 Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy 1321
31 Desiderius Erasmus In Praise of Folly 1509
Niccolò
32 The Prince 1532
Machiavelli
On the Babylonian Captivity
33 Martin Luther 1520
of the Church
34 François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel 1532 & 1534
Institutes of the Christian
35 John Calvin 1536
Religion
Nicolaus On the Revolutions of the
36 1543
Copernicus Heavenly Spheres
Michael Eyquem de
37 Essays 1580
Montaigne
Miguel de
38 Don Quixote 1605 & 1615
Cervantes
39 Johannes Kepler Harmony of the Worlds 1619
40 Francis Bacon Novum Organum 1620
William
41 First Folio 1623
Shakespeare
Dialogue Concerning the
42 Galileo Galilei 1632
Two Chief World Systems
43 René Descartes Discourse on Method 1637
44 Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 1651
Gottfried Wilhelm
45 Works 1663–1716
Leibniz
46 Blaise Pascal Pensées 1670
47 Baruch de Spinoza Ethics 1677
48 John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 1678–1684
Mathematical Principles of
49 Isaac Newton 1687
49 Isaac Newton 1687
Natural Philosophy
Essay Concerning Human
50 John Locke 1689
Understanding
Treatise Concerning the
1710, revised
51 George Berkeley Principles of Human
1734
Knowledge
1725, revised
52 Giambattista Vico The New Science
1744
53 David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature 1739–1740
54 Denis Diderot (ed.) Encyclopédie 1751–1772
A Dictionary of the English
55 Samuel Johnson 1755
Language
François-Marie de
56 Candide 1759
Voltaire
57 Thomas Paine Common Sense 1776
58 Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations 1776
The History of the Decline
59 Edward Gibbon and Fall of the Roman 1776–1787
Empire
1781, revised
60 Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason
1787
Jean-Jacques
61 Confessions 1781
Rousseau
Reflections on the
62 Edmund Burke 1790
Revolution in France
Mary Vindication of the Rights of
63 1792
Wollstonecraft Woman
An Enquiry Concerning
64 William Godwin 1793
Political Justice
Thomas Robert An Essay on the Principle of 1798, revised
65
Malthus Population 1803
George Wilhelm
66 Phenomenology of Spirit 1807
Friedrich Hegel
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67 The World as Will and Idea 1819
Schopenhauer
The Course in Positive
68 Auguste Comte 1830–1842
Philosophy
Carl von
69 On War 1832
Clausewitz
70 Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or 1843
Karl Marx &
71 Communist Manifesto 1848
Friedrich Engels
Henry David
72 Civil Disobedience 1849
Thoreau
73 Charles Darwin The Origin of Species 1859
74 John Stuart Mill On Liberty 1859
75 Herbert Spencer First Principles 1862
Experiments on Plant
76 Gregor Mendel 1866
Hybridization
77 Leo Tolstoy War and Peace 1868–1869
James Clerk Treatise on Electricity and
78 1873
Maxwell Magnetism
79 Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra 1883–1885
The Interpretation of
80 Sigmund Freud 1900
Dreams
81 William James Pragmatism 1908
82 Albert Einstein Relativity 1916
83 Vilfredo Pareto The Mind and Society 1916
84 Carl Gustav Jung Psychological Types 1921
85 Martin Buber I and Thou 1923
86 Franz Kafka The Trial 1925
The Logic of Scientific
87 Karl Popper 1934
Discovery
General Theory of
John Maynard
88 Employment, Interest, and 1936
Keynes
Money
89 Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness 1943
Friedrich von
90 The Road to Serfdom 1944
Hayek
Simone de
91 The Second Sex 1948
Beauvoir
1948, revised
92 Norbert Wiener Cybernetics
1961
93 George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
George Ivanovitch Beelzebub's Tales to His
94 1950
Gurdjieff Grandson
Ludwig
95 Philosophical Investigations 1953
Wittgenstein
96 Noam Chomsky Syntactic Structures 1957
The Structure of Scientific 1962, revised
97 Thomas Kuhn
Revolutions 1970
98 Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique 1963
Quotations From Chairman
99 Mao Zedong Mao Tse-tung (Little Red 1966
Book)
Beyond Freedom and
100 B. F. Skinner 1971
Dignity
See also
List of best-selling books
The 100 Best Books of All Time
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, 1998, ISBN 0806520000
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