Top 25 Books that Changed History

What are the books that have made an impact on our culture and society? The New York Public Library decided to delve into the world of literature and examine 25 books that changed history. It was no easy feat—reading is such a personal experience—but we found that the following books have offered unique insights about the world around us and changed the course of human history.

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
3. The Analects of Confucius by Confucius
4. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
5. King James Bible
6. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Alexander Brown
7. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
9. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
10. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
11. Hiroshima by John Hersey
12. How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis
13. I Ching: The Book of Change
14. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
15. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
16. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
17. On Liberty: Bold-faced Thoughts on Free Will, Free Speech, and the Importance of Individualityby John Stuart Mill
18. Origin of the Species: By Means of Natural Selection of the Preservation of Favoured Races inthe Struggle for Lifeby Charles Darwin
19. The Qur’an
20. Republic by Plato
21. The Rights of Man: For the Benefit of All Mankind by Thomas Paine
22. The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
23. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
24. The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
25. The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

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