What are the 25 most influential books of all time?

I'm making it a goal of mine to read 25 books this year (about 1 per 2 weeks). What do you think are 25 books that changed history? I'd like to know!





Also, if you could tell me top 10 investment books, that'd be great too!

What are the 25 most influential books of all time?
the bible, Uncle Tom's Cabin, On The Road, To Kill A Mocking Bird, In Cold Blood, Harry Potter, Wuthering Heights, The Odyssey, anything by Shakespeare, Sense and Sensibility, Oliver twist, Moby Dick, The Grimm Brothers Tales, and The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn to name a few.
Reply:Read the Chronicles of Narnia (7)


Anne Frank's Diary (1)


Bible (this may take more than 2 weeks)
Reply:I don't know about the 25, but Im pretty sure the Holy Bible tops the list:)
Reply:Of mice and men


The Hobit


Cronicals of Narnia


To kill a Mockingbird


Oliver Twist


Anne Franks Diary


A Tree Grows in Broklyn


Moby Dick


Little Woman


Pride and Predudiced


A Tale of Two Citys


Dracula


Stardust


Outsiders


Gone with the wind


Romeo and Juliet


The Wizard of OZ


Beauty and the Beast


Lord of the Rings


A Christmas Carol





I couldn't come up with 25 but here are a few
Reply:The problem with influential books is that most of them tend to be LONG and somewhat difficult to sit down and read. I'll give you a few books that I read that had a great deal of influence on me, which may be different from what you're looking for.





To Kill a Mockingbird


The Chronicles of Narnia


Candide


Second Treatise of Government


Kite Runner
Reply:Epic of Gilgamesh (C. 2700-1500 B.C.)


The Egyptian Book of the Dead (C. 2400-1420 B.C.)


Iliad (C. 800 B.C.)


Aesop's Fables (C. 600-560 B.C.)


Hippocratic Corpus (C. 5th Century B.C.)


The History of Herodotus (C. 440 B.C.)


The Analects of Confucius (429 B.C.)


Republic (C. 378 B.C.)


Nicomachean Ethics (C. 330 B.C.)


On the Republic (51 B.C.)


Koran (C. A.D. 652)


The Tale of Genji (C. 1010)


The Travels of Marco Polo (C. 1300)


The Divine Comedy (C. 1320)


Gutenberg Bible (1455)


The Prince (1513)


Utopia (1516)


Ninety-Five Theses (1517)


The Fabric of the Human Body (1543)


On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (1543)


Romeo and Juliet (1594)


Don Quixote De La Mancha (1605)


Treatise on Painting (1651)


The Pilgrim's Progress (1678; 1684)


Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1689)


Two Treatises of Government (1690)





Here. Read them yourself. It's free.


http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page





( You might want to check out my 75 other favourites so that you can be a bit more choosy)


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