100 Most Influential Books Ever Written

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This page keeps track of which of the 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written according to Martin Seymour-Smith are on Project Gutenberg.

Author Title Date Status
Jewish scripture Torah 13th-4th century BCE As part of the Bible
Chinese classic text I Ching late 9th century BCE Not in PG
Homer Iliad and Odyssey 8th-early 7th century BCE various editions
Hindu scripture Upanishads 7th-5th century BCE etext:3283
Lao Tsu Tao Te Ching 3rd century BCE etext:216 (en), etext:7337 (zh)
Zoroastrian scripture Avesta 3rd century BCE-3rd century AD not in PG
Confucius Analects 5th-4th century BCE etext:3330 (en), etext:23839 (zh)
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War 5th century BCE etext:7142 (en), etext:29833 to etext:29836 (el)
Hippocrates Works 400 BCE Not extant
Aristotle Works 4th century BCE various works
Herodotus Histories 4th century BCE etext:2707+etext:2456 (en)
Plato The Republic 380 BCE etext:150 (en), etext:1497 (en)
Euclid Elements 280 BCE etext:21076 only books 1-6 (of 13), clearance 2008
Buddhist scripture Dhammapada (Path of the Dharma) 252 BCE etext:2017 (en), etext:35185 (en)
Virgil Aeneid 19 BCE various editions
Lucretius On the Nature of Things 55 BCE etext:785
Philo of Alexandria Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Law 1st century AD not in PG
Christian scripture New Testament 50-100 AD As part of the Bible
Plutarch Parallel Lives 120 AD various editions and excerpts
Cornelius Tacitus Annals, From the Death of the Divine Augustus 120 AD Parts, also in DP
Valentinus Gospel of Truth (Gnostic text) 2nd century AD not in PG (copyrighted?)
Marcus Aurelius Meditations 167 AD various editions
Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhonism 150-210 AD not in PG
Plotinus Enneads 3rd century AD Copyright clearance on Selected Works, 2010
Augustine of Hippo Confessions 400 AD etext:3296 (en), etext:33849 (la)
Muslim scripture Quran 7th century AD various editions
Moses Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed 1190 Copyright clearance 2010
Judaic mysticism Kabbalah 12th century not a specific text
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae 1266-1273 etext:17611+etext:17897+etext:18755+etext:19950 (en)
Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy 1321 many editions
Desiderius Erasmus In Praise of Folly 1509 etext:9371 (en), etext:30201 (en), etext:27846 (nl)
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince 1532 etext:1232 (en), etext:15772 (en)
Martin Luther On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church 1520 part of etext:34904 (en)
Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel 1534 & 1532 etext:1200 (en), etext:8166 to etext:8170] (en)
John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion 1536 copyright clearance 2010
Nicolaus Copernicus On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres 1543 not in PG
Michael Eyquem de Montaigne Essays 1580 etext:3600 (en)
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote 1605 & 1615 several versions
Johannes Kepler Harmony of the Worlds 1619 not in PG
Francis Bacon Novum Organum 1620 in PP
William Shakespeare First Folio 1623 in parts, many editions
Galileo Galilei Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 1632 not in PG
Rene Descartes Discourse on Method 1637 etext:13846 (fr), etext:59 (en), etext:15085 (fi). etext:25830 (en)
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan 1651 etext:3207 (en)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Works 1663-1716 not a specific text
Blaise Pascal Pensées 1670 etext:18269 (en)
Baruch de Spinoza Ethics 1677 etext:15497 (nl), etext:3800 (en)
John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 1678-1684 etext:131
Isaac Newton Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy 1687 etext:28233 (la)
John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1689 etext:10615+etext:10616 (en)
George Berkeley Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge 1710, revised 1734 etext:4723
Giambattista Vico The New Science 1725, revised 1744 copyright clearance 2008 (fr)
David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature 1739-1740 etext:4705
Denis Diderot (ed.) Encyclopédie 1751-1772 not in PG
Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language 1755 etext:5430 - only the preface, copyright clearance 2011
Francois-Marie de Voltaire Candide 1759 etext:19942 (en), etext:1709 (es), etext:4650 (fr)
Thomas Paine Common Sense 1776 etext:147, etext:3755 (en)
Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations 1776 etext:3300 (en)
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1787 etext:731-etext:736 and etext:890-etext:895, etext:900 (en)
Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason 1781, revised 1787 etext:4280 (en), etext:6342 (de/1781), etext:6343 (de/1787)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions 1781 etext:3901-etext:3913 (en)
Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790 part of etext:15679 (en)
Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792 etext:3420
William Godwin An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 1793 not in PG
Thomas Robert Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population 1798, revised 1803 etext:4239 (en)
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit 1807 etext:6698 (de)
Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Idea 1819 etext:38427+etext:40097+etext:40868 (en)
Auguste Comte Course in the Positivist Philosophy 1830-1842 etext:31881, etext:31882, etext:31883, etext:31947, dpproject:projectID446ff259200bf, dpproject:projectID447a6908a1535
Carl Marie von Clausewitz On War 1832 etext:36693 (de), etext:1946 (en; only volume 1)
Soren Kierkegaard Either/Or 1843 not in PG
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels Communist Manifesto 1848 etext:61, etext:31193 (en)
Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience 1849 etext:71 (en)
Charles Darwin The Origin of Species 1859 various editions
John Stuart Mill On Liberty 1859 etext:34901 (en)
Herbert Spencer First Principles 1862 etext:55046 (en)
Gregor Mendel Experiments on Plant Hybridization 1866 Gone through DP (de)
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace 1868-1869 etext:2600 (en), etext:17949+etext:17950+etext:17951 (fr)
James Clerk Maxwell Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism 1873 Copyright clearance 2008
Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra 1883-1885 etext:1998 (en), etext:5258 (fr), etext:7205 (de)
Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams 1900 etext:40739 (de), etext:66048 (en)
William James Pragmatism 1908 etext:5116 (en)
Albert Einstein Relativity: The special and the general theory 1916 etext:5001, etext:30155, etext:36114 (en)
Vilfredo Pareto The Mind and Society 1916 not in PG
Carl Gustav Jung Psychological Types 1921 Copyright clearance 2008 (de)
Martin Buber I and Thou 1923 copyrighted
Franz Kafka The Trial 1925 copyrighted
Karl Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery 1934 copyrighted
John Maynard Keynes General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 1936 copyrighted
Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness 1943 copyrighted
Friedrich von Hayek The Road to Serfdom 1944 copyrighted
Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex 1948 copyrighted
Norbert Wiener Cybernetics 1948, revised 1961 copyrighted
George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949 copyrighted
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson 1950 copyrighted
Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations 1953 copyrighted
Noam Chomsky Syntactic Structures 1957 copyrighted
Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 1962, revised 1970 copyrighted
Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique 1963 copyrighted
Mao Zedong Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book) 1966 copyrighted?
B. F. Skinner Beyond Freedom and Dignity 1971 copyrighted