This list isn't about the most famous or the most exciting books. It's a list of books that truly enlightened and inspired readers. These books are some of the greatest works that humanity ever produced, real masterpieces in other words. From stories to science to philosophy I tried to make this list as diverse as possible. - Analects by Confucius - Avesta - Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson by G.I. Gurdjieff - Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - Common Sense by Thomas Paine - Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Corpus Aristotelicum by Aristotle - Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener - Dhammapada - Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei - Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes - Encyclopedia by Denis Diderot - First Folio by William Shakespeare - Elements by Euclid - Guide For The Perplexed by Maimonides - Harmony Of The World by Johannes Kepler - History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - History Of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides - I Ching - Iliad and Odyssey by Homer - Interpretation Of Dreams by Sigmund Freud - Kabbalah - Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes - Mathematical Principles Of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - Mind And Society by Vilfredo Pareto - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell - Novum Organum by Francis Bacon - Old Testament and New Testament - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill - On The Babylonian Captivity Of The Church by Martin Luther - On The Nature Of Things by Lucretius - On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin - On The Revolutions Of The Celestial Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus - Phenomenology Of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel - Qur'an - Quotations From Chairman Mao by Mao Zedong - Relativity by Albert Einstein - Republic by Plato - Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir - Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky - Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche - Trial by Franz Kafka - Upanishads - Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft - War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Way And Its Power by Laozi - Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith

• published: 01 Jan 2014
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