Leading Influential Top Twenty Books
Many people read second hand books around the continent. The reason some people read is to improve their grammar and knowledge and some feel it makes them intelligent. People who have recently just started reading books want to know what books to read and what are the most influential books in the World. 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. According to Seymour Smith here are the top twenty lists of influential books he gives 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.
Married Love by Marie Stopes, On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, A vindication of the Rights Of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, Book of Rules of Association Football by a group of former English public school men, On the Abolition of the Slave trade by William Wilberforce, The First Folio by William Shakespeare and Magna Carta by members of the English ruling classes.
If you have any non fiction books or children’s books or any other books then I would love to write about it in the coming future, please feel free to comment below.
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