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        • 50 Years of Books to Remember by The New York Public Library
        • Waterstones 100 Books of the Century
        • Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time
        • The Celebrity Reading List
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        • The Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
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Bronze Age (c.3000 BC – c.1050 BC)

  1. Epic of Gilgamesh (2100 B.C.) by Unknown
  2. Code of Hammurabi (1754 B.C.) by Hammurabi
  3. Vedas (1700-1100 B.C.) by Multiple

Archaic Greece (776 BC – 480 BC)

  1. Old Testament (800-63 B.C.) by Multiple
  2. Upanishads (800-500 B.C.) by Multiple
  3. Iliad (750 B.C.) by Homer
  4. Oddyssey (750 B.C.) by Homer
  5. Works and Days (700 B.C.) by Hesiod
  6. Theogeny (700 B.C.) by Hesiod
  7. Tao Te Ching (550 B.C.) by Laozi (traditionally credited)
  8. Torah (Pentateuch) (550 B.C.) by Multiple
  9. The Art of War (550 B.C.) by Sunzi
  10. Aesop's Fables (550 B.C.) by Aesop
  11. Analects (475 B.C.) by Confucious

​Classical antiquity (480 BC – 476 AD)

  1. ​Oresteia (458 B.C.) by Aeschylus
  2. Histories (449 B.C.) by Herodotus
  3. Antigone (441 B.C.) by Sophocles
  4. History of the Peloponessian War (431 B.C.) by Thucydides
  5. Medea (431 B.C.) by Euripides
  6. Oedipus the King (429 B.C.) by Sophocles
  7. Lysistrata (411 B.C.) by Aristophanes
  8. Oedipus at Colonus (406 B.C.) by Sophocles
  9. Apology (399-390 B.C.) by Plato
  10. Republic (399-390 B.C.) by Plato
  11. Crito (399-390 B.C.) by Plato
  12. Symposium (396 B.C.) by Plato
  13. Georgias (388-367 B.C.) by Plato
  14. Meno (388-367 B.C.) by Plato
  15. Phadreus (388-367 B.C.) by Plato
  16. Parmenides (388-367 B.C.) by Plato
  17. Prototgoras (388-367 B.C.) by Plato
  18. Theatetus (368 B.C.) by Plato
  19. Nichomachean Ethics (350 B.C.) by Aristotle
  20. Organon (350 B.C.) by Aristotle
  21. Metaphysics (350 B.C.) by Aristotle
  22. Poetics (350 B.C.) by Aristotle
  23. Rhetoric (350 B.C.) by Aristotle
  24. Dyskolos (317 B.C.) by Menander
  25. Elements (300 B.C.) by Euclid
  26. Histories (146 B.C.) by Polybius

Late Roman Republic (147 BC – 27 BC)

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  1. Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) (100 B.C.) by 72 Jewish Scholars
  2. On the Nature of Things (99-55 B.C.) by Lucretius
  3. Catilinarian Orations (63 B.C.) by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  4. Aenid (30 B.C.) by Virgil
  5. Pali Canon (29 B.C.) by Multiple
  6. Odes (23 B.C.) by Horace
  7. Metamorphoses (8 CE)  by Ovid

Principate of the Roman Empire (27 BC – 284 AD)

  1. New Testament (57-110)  by Multiple
  2. Gospel of Mark (68-70)  by Multiple
  3. Gospel of Luke (80-90)  by Multiple
  4. Gospel of Matthew (89-90)  by Multiple
  5. Gospel of John (90-110)  by Multiple
  6. Acts of the Apostles (95-100)  by Multiple
  7. Epistles (57-110)  by Multiple
  8. Book of Revelation (68-96)  by Multiple
  9. Histories and Annals (100)  by Tacitus
  10. Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (early 2nd century)  by Plutarch
  11. Manual of Epictetus (108)  by Epictetus
  12. Almagest (150)  by Ptolemy
  13. Meditations (170-180)  by Marcus Aurelius
  14. Apologeticus (197)  by Turtulian
  15. Zend-Avesta (3rd - 7th Century)  by Multiple
  16. Hexapla (240)  by Origen
  17. The Six Enneads (of Plotinus) (270)  by Porphyry

Late Antiquity (284 AD – 500 AD)

  1. Exposition of the Christian Faith (350)  by Ambrose
  2. Confessions (400)  by Augustine
  3. The City of God (426)  by Augustine

Early Middle Ages (Europe, 476 – 1066)

  1. The Consolation of Philosophy (523)  by Boethius
  2. Quran (609-632)  by Multiple
  3. Beowulf (700-1000)  by Anonymous
  4. Tale of Genji (1001-1008)  by Murasaki Shikibu
  5. The Cannon of Medicine (1025)  by Avicenna
  6. The Book of Healing (1027)  by Avicenna

High Middle Ages (Europe, 1066 – c.1300)

  1. Proslogion (1078)  by Anselm of Canterbury
  2. "Sic et Non" ("Yes and No") (1132)  by Peter Abelard
  3. Four Books of Sentences (1150)  by Peter Lombard
  4. The Incoherence of the Incoherence (1180)  by Averroes
  5. The Guide for the Perplexed (1190)  by Maimonides
  6. Liber Abaci (1202)  by Fibonnacci
  7. Summa Theologica (1265–1274)  by Thomas Aquinas
  8. Opus Majus (1267)  by Roger Bacon
  9. Opera Philosophica et Theologica (1285-1349)  by William of Ockham

The Renaissance (Europe, c.1300 – c.1600)

  1. The Travels of Marco Polo (1300)  by Rustichello da Pisa
  2. The Ordinatio (1300)  by John Duns Scotus
  3. Divine Comedy (1320)  by Dante Alighieri
  4. Il Canzoniere (1327-1368)  by Petrarch
  5. The Decameron (1353)  by Giovanni Boccaccio
  6. Gutenberg Bible (1455)  by Multiple
  7. The Canterbury Tales (1478)  by Geoffrey Chaucer
  8. King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (1485)  by Thomas Malory
  9. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)  by Leonardo Da Vinci
  10. Guru Granth Sahib (Sikhism) (early 16th century)  by Guru Nanak
  11. In Praise of Folly (1511)  by Desiderius Erasmus
  12. Utopia (1516)  by Thomas More
  13. Ninety-five Theses (1517)  by Martin Luther
  14. The Prince (1532)  by Niccolò Machiavelli
  15. Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532 - 1564)  by François Rabelais
  16. Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)  by John Calvin
  17. Partial translation of Bible into English (1537)  by William Tyndale
  18. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543)  by Nicolaus Copernicus
  19. Les Propheties (1557)  by Nostradamus
  20. Essays (1580)  by Michel de Montaigne
  21. Works (1589 - 1614)  by William Shakespeare
  22. Doctor Faustus (1592)  by Christopher Marlow
  23. The Faerie Queene (1596)  by Edmund Spenser

Industrious Revolution, (Europe, 16th – 18th centuries)

  1. On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth (1600)  by William Gilbert
  2. Don Quixote (1605)  by Miguel de Cervantes
  3. Astronomia nova (1609)  by Johannes Kepler
  4. King James Bible (1611)  by Multiple
  5. The White Devil (1612)  by John Webster
  6. The Alchemist (1612)  by Ben Johnson
  7. Novum Organum (1620)  by Francis Bacon
  8. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood (1628)  by William Harvey
  9. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)  by Galileo Galilei
  10. The Flea (Selected Poetry) (1633)  by John Donne
  11. Discourse on Method (1637)  by Rene Descartes
  12. Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)  by Rene Descartes
  13. Leviathan (1651)  by Thomas Hobbes
  14. The Sceptical Chymist (1661)  by Robert Boyle
  15. Micrographia (1665)  by Robert Hooke
  16. The Blazing World (1666)  by Margaret Cavendish
  17. Paradise Lost (1667)  by John Milton
  18. Pensées (1669)  by Blaise Pascal
  19. The Conquest of Granada (1672)  by John Dryden
  20. Ethics (1677)  by Baruch Spinoza
  21. The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)  by John Bunyan
  22. Don Juan (1683)  by Moliere
  23. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1686)  by Isaac Newton
  24. Discourse on Metaphysics (1686)  by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  25. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)  by John Locke
  26. Second Treatise of Government (1689)  by John Locke
  27. A Letter Concerning Toleration: Humbly Submitted (1689)  by John Locke
  28. Perrault's Fairy Tales (1697)  by Charles Perrault
  29. Ars Conjectandi (1713)  by Jacob Bernoulli
  30. Principles of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713)  by George Berkeley
  31. Monadology (1714)  by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Enlightenment (or Reason) (Europe, 18th century)

  1. Robinson Crusoe (1719)  by Daniel Defoe
  2. New Science (1725)  by Giambattista Vico
  3. Gulliver's Travels (1726)  by Jonathan Swift
  4. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)  by David Hume
  5. The Spirit of the Laws (1748)  by Montesquieu
  6. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)  by Henry Fielding
  7. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)  by David Hume
  8. Encyclopédie (1751-1776)  by Edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert
  9. A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology (1755)  by Samuel Johnson
  10. Candide (1759)  by Voltaire
  11. The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)  by Adam Smith
  12. The Social Contract (1762)  by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  13. Emile (1762)  by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  14. Treatise on Tolerance (1763)  by Voltaire
  15. ​United States Declaration of Independence (1776)  by Thomas Jefferson et al.
  16. Common Sense (1776)  by Thomas Paine
  17. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776)  by Edward Gibbon
  18. The Wealth of Nations (1776)  by Adam Smith
  19. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1776)  by David Hume
  20. Critique of Pure Reason (1781)  by Immanuel Kant

French Revolution in 1789

  1. Confessions (1782)  by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  2. US Consitution (1787)  by US Founding Fathers
  3. The Federalist Papers (1787)  by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
  4. Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)  by Thomas Jefferson
  5. Critique of Practical Reason (1788)  by Immanuel Kant
  6. Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789)  by William Blake
  7. Critique of Judgment (1790)  by Immanuel Kant
  8. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)  by Edmund Burke
  9. Rights of Man (1791)  by Thomas Paine
  10. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791)  by Benjamin Franklin
  11. The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)  by James Boswell
  12. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)  by Mary Wollstonecraft
  13. The Age of Reason (1794)  by Thomas Paine
  14. The Metaphysics of Morals (1797)  by Immanuel Kant
  15. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  16. Lyrical Ballads (1798)  by William Wordsworth
  17. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)  by Thomas Malthus
  18. The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)  by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  19. Sense and Sensibility (1811)  by Jane Austen
  20. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812)  by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
  21. Pride and Prejudice (1813)  by Jane Austen
  22. Frankenstein (1818)  by Mary Shelley
  23. Don Juan (1819)  by George Gordon Byron
  24. Rip Van Winkle (1819)  by Washington Irving
  25. The Complete Poems of John Keats (1820)  by John Keats
  26. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)  by Washington Irving
  27. The Book of Mormon (1830)  by Joseph Smith Jr.
  28. Faust (1832)  by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  29. Democracy in America (1835)  by Alexis de Tocqueville
  30. Nature (1836)  by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  31. The American Scholar (1837)  by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  32. Oliver Twist (1838)  by Charles Dickens
  33. The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)  by Charles Darwin
  34. A Christmas Carol (1843)  by Charles Dickens
  35. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (1843)  by Edgar Allan Poe
  36. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (1843)  by Søren Kierkegaard
  37. Fear and Trembling (1843)  by Søren Kierkegaard
  38. The Count of Monte Cristo (1845)  by Alexandre Dumas
  39. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)  by Frederick Douglass
  40. Jane Eyre (1847)  by Charlotte Brontë
  41. Wuthering Heights (1847)  by Emily Brontë
  42. The Communist Manifesto (1848)  by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
  43. Civil Disobedience (1849)  by Henry David Thoreau
  44. The Prelude (1850)  by William Wordsworth
  45. David Copperfield (1850)  by Charles Dickens
  46. The Scarlet Letter (1850)  by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  47. Moby Dick (1851)  by Herman Melville
  48. The House of Seven Gables (1851)  by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  49. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)  by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  50. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853)  by Harriet Martineau
  51. Bleak House (1853)  by Charles Dickens
  52. Walden (1854)  by Henry David Thoreau
  53. Leaves of Grass (1855)  by Walt Whitman
  54. Madame Bovary (1856)  by Gustave Flaubert
  55. A Tale of Two Cities (1859)  by Charles Dickens
  56. The Origin of Species (1859)  by Charles Darwin
  57. On Liberty (1859)  by John Stuart Mill
  58. The World as Will and Representation (1859)  by Arthur Schopenhauer
  59. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859)  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  60. Great Expectations (1861)  by Charles Dickens
  61. Les Misérables (1862)  by Victor Hugo
  62. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)  by Lewis Carroll
  63. Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (1865)  by Gregor Mendel
  64. Crime and Punishment (1866)  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  65. Capital, Volume I (Das Kapital) (1867)  by Karl Marx
  66. War and Peace (1869)  by Leo Tolstoy
  67. Through the Looking-Glass (1871)  by Lewis Carroll
  68. Middlemarch (1871)  by George Eliot
  69. The Descent of Man (1871)  by Charles Darwin
  70. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)  by Mark Twain
  71. Anna Karenina (1877)  by Leo Tolstoy
  72. The Brothers Karamazov (1880)  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  73. Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)  by Friedrich Nietzsche
  74. Man Versus the State (1884)  by Herbert Spencer
  75. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)  by Mark Twain
  76. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)  by Robert Louis Stevenson
  77. Beyond Good and Evil (1886)  by Friedrich Nietzsche
  78. Sherlock Holmes (1887-1927)  by Arthur Conan Doyle
  79. On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)  by Friedrich Nietzsche
  80. The Antichrist (1888)  by Friedrich Nietzsche
  81. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)  by Oscar Wilde
  82. The Golden Bough (1890)  by James George Frazer
  83. The Division of Labour in Society (1893)  by Émile Durkheim
  84. Arms and the Man (1894)  by George Bernard Shaw
  85. The Time Machine (1895)  by H.G. Wells
  86. Dracula (1897)  by Bram Stoker
  87. The Turn of the Screw (1898)  by Henry James
  88. Heart of Darkness (1899)  by Joseph Conrad
  89. The Principles of Psychology (1890)  by William James
  90. The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)  by Sigmund Freud
  91. Up from Slavery (1901)  by Booker T. Washington
  92. The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)  by William James
  93. The Call of the Wild (1903)  by Jack London
  94. Principia Ethica (1903)  by G. E. Moore
  95. The Jungle (1906)  by Upton Sinclair
  96. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)  by William James
  97. Creative Evolution (1907)  by Henri Bergson
  98. Principia Mathematica (1910)  by Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell
  99. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912)  by Émile Durkheim
  100. The Problems of Philosophy (1912)  by Bertrand Russell

World War I (1914–1918)

  1. In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927)  by Marcel Proust
  2. The Metamorphosis (1915)  by Franz Kafka
  3. Relativity (1915)  by Albert Einstein
  4. The Mind and Society (1916)  by Vilfredo Pareto
  5. The Education of Henry Adams (1918)  by Henry AdamsParagraph. Clique aqui para editar.

Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

  1. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)  by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  2. Ulysses (1922)  by James Joyce
  3. Economy and Society (1922)  by Max Weber
  4. Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923)  by George Santayana
  5. A Passage to India (1924)  by E. M. Forster
  6. The Magic Mountain (1924)  by Thomas Mann
  7. The Conquest of Happiness (1924)  by Bertrand Russell
  8. The Great Gadsby (1925)  by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  9. The Trial (1925)  by Franz Kafka
  10. The Sun Also Rises (1926)  by Ernest Hemingway
  11. To The Lighthouse (1927)  by Virginia Woolf
  12. Aspects of the Novel (1927)  by E. M. Forster
  13. Being and Time (1927)  by Martin Heidegger
  14. Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)  by Bertrand Russell

Great Depression (1929–1939)

  1. A Farewell to Arms (1929)  by Ernest Hemingway
  2. The Sound and the Fury (1929)  by William Falkner
  3. Process and Reality (1929)  by Alfred North Whitehead
  4. Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)  by Sigmund Freud
  5. Brave New World (1932)  by Aldous Huxley
  6. A Study of History (1934-1961)  by Arnold J. Toynbee
  7. Art as Experience (1934)  by John Dewey
  8. The Story of Civilization (1935-1975)  by Will & Ariel Durant
  9. Gone With the Wind (1936)  by Margaret Mitchell
  10. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)  by John Maynard Keynes
  11. The Great Chain of Being (1936)  by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
  12. How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)  by Dale Carnegie
  13. Of Mice and Men (1937)  by John Steinbeck
  14. Homage to Catalonia (1938)  by George Orwell
  15. Experience and Education (1938)  by John Dewey
  16. The Grapes of Wrath (1939)  by John Steinbeck

The Forties (1940–1949)

  1. A Mathematician's Apology (1940)  by G. H. Hardy
  2. The Stranger (1942)  by Albert Camus
  3. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942)  by Joseph Schumpeter
  4. The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)  by Albert Camus
  5. The Abolition of Man (1943)  by C. S. Lewis
  6. Being and Nothingness (1943)  by Jean-Paul Sartre
  7. What Is Life? (1944)  by Erwin Schrödinger
  8. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)  by John von Neumann
  9. Animal Farm (1945)  by George Orwell
  10. The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)  by Karl Popper
  11. All the King's Men (1946)  by Robert Penn Warren
  12. Man's Search for Meaning (1946)  by Viktor Frankl
  13. The Diary of a Young Girl (1947)  by Anne Frank
  14. A History of Western Philosophy (1947)  by Bertrand Russell
  15. One Two Three... Infinity (1947)  by George Gamow
  16. The Second World War (1948-1953)  by Winston Churchill
  17. Walden Two (1948)  by B. F. Skinner
  18. 1984 (1949)  by George Orwell
  19. The Second Sex (1949)  by Simone de Beauvoir
  20. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)  by Joseph Campbell

The Fifties (1950–1959)

  1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950)  by C.S. Lewis
  2. The Liberal Imagination (1950)  by Lionel Trilling
  3. The Story of Art (1950)  by E. H. Gombrich
  4. The Catcher in the Rye (1951)  by J.D. Salinger
  5. The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)  by Hannah Arendt
  6. East of Eden (1952)  by John Steinbeck
  7. The Old Man and the Sea (1952)  by Ernest Hemingway
  8. Invisible Man (1952)  by Ralph Ellison
  9. Fahrenheit 451 (1953)  by Ray Bradbury
  10. Philosophical Investigations (1953)  by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  11. The Conservative Mind (1953)  by Russell Kirk
  12. The Doors of Perception (1954)  by Aldous Huxley
  13. Lord of the Flies (1954)  by William Golding
  14. Ideas and Opinions (1954)  by Albert Einstein
  15. Motivation and Personality (1954)  by Abraham Maslow
  16. Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (1954)  by Edmund Husserl
  17. The Lord of the Rings (1955)  by J.R.R. Tolkien
  18. Lolita (1955)  by Vladimir Nabokov
  19. Tristes Tropiques (1955)  by Claude Lévi-Strauss
  20. Notes of a Native Son (1955)  by James Baldwin
  21. Syntactic Structures (1957)  by Noam Chomsky
  22. The Undiscovered Self (1957)  by Carl Jung
  23. The Civil War (1958)  by Shelby Foote
  24. The Affluent Society (1958)  by John Kenneth Galbraith
  25. Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (1958)  by Werner Heisenberg
  26. The Elements of Style (1959)  by E.B. White, William Strunk Jr.
  27. The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959)  by Karl Popper
  28. The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell: 1903-1959 (1959)  by Bertrand Russell

The Sixties (1960–1969)

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)  by Harper Lee
  2. Rabbit, Run (1960)  by John Updike
  3. The Constitution of Liberty (1960)  by Friedrich A. Hayek
  4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960)  by William L. Shirer
  5. Word and Object (1960)  by W.V.O Quine
  6. Catch-22 (1961)  by Joseph Heller
  7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)  by Ken Kesey
  8. A Clockwork Orange (1962)  by Anthony Burgess
  9. Silent Spring (1962)  by Rachel Carson
  10. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)  by Thomas S. Kuhn
  11. Capitalism and Freedom (1962)  by Milton Friedman
  12. The Guns of August (1962)  by Barbara Tuchman
  13. Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963)  by Richard Hofstadter
  14. The Rise of the West (1963)  by William H. McNeill
  15. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)  by Richard Feynman
  16. Why We Can't Wait (1964)  by Martin Luther King Jr.
  17. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)  by Malcolm X & Alex Haley
  18. Infinite Jest (1966)  by David Foster Wallace
  19. In Cold Blood (1966)  by Truman Capote
  20. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966)  by Michel Foucault
  21. Of Grammatology (1967)  by Jacques Derrida
  22. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)  by Gabriel García Márquez
  23. The Double Helix (1968)  by James D. Watson
  24. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)  by Kurt Vonnegut
  25. The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems (1969)  by Robert Frost
  26. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)  by Maya Angelou

The Seventies (1970–1979)

  1. The Complete Stories (1971)  by Flannery O'Connor
  2. A Theory of Justice (1971)  by John Rawls
  3. The Gulag Archipelago (1973)  by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  4. Small Is Beautiful (1973)  by E. F. Schumacher
  5. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)  by Robert M. Pirsig
  6. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)  by E. O. Wilson
  7. The Selfish Gene (1976)  by Richard Dawkins
  8. The First Three Minutes (1977)  by Steven Weinberg
  9. A Distant Mirror (1978)  by Barbara Tuchman
  10. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979)  by James Lovelock
  11. The Right Stuff (1979)  by Tom Wolfe
  12. The Gnostic Gospels (1979)  by Elaine Pagels
  13. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979)  by Richard Rorty
  14. Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979)  by Douglas Hofstadter

The Eighties (1980–1989)

  1. A People's History of the United States (1980)  by Howard Zinn
  2. Cosmos (1980)  by Carl Sagan
  3. Midnight's Children (1981)  by Salman Rushdie
  4. The Mismeasure of Man (1982)  by Stephen Jay Gould
  5. Gorillas in the Mist (1983)  by Dian Fossey
  6. Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s (1983)  by Paul Johnson
  7. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality (1984)  by John Gribbin
  8. On Food and Cooking (1984)  by Harold McGee
  9. Blood Meridian (1985)  by Cormac McCarthy
  10. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985)  by Oliver Sacks
  11. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)  by Richard Feynman
  12. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)  by Margaret Atwood
  13. Beloved (1987)  by Toni Morrison
  14. The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1987)  by Richard Rhodes
  15. The Closing of the American Mind (1987)  by Allan Bloom
  16. A Conflict of Visions (1987)  by Thomas Sowell
  17. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988)  by Noam Chomsky
  18. A Brief History of Time (1988)  by Stephen Hawking

The Nineties (1990–1999)

  1. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990)  by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  2. The Passion of the Western Mind (1991)  by Richard Tarnas
  3. The End of History and the Last Man (1992)  by Francis Fukuyama
  4. The Giver (1993)  by Lois Lowry
  5. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)  by Carl Sagan
  6. The Language Instinct (1994)  by Steven Pinker
  7. Lies My Teacher Told Me (1995)  by James W. Loewen
  8. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)  by Carl Sagan
  9. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1996)  by Douglas Adams
  10. Clash of Civilizations (1996)  by Samuel P. Huntington
  11. Harry Potter series (1997)  by J.K. Rowling
  12. Memoirs of a Geisha (1997)  by Arthur Golden
  13. American Pastoral (1997)  by Philip Roth
  14. Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997)  by Jared Diamond
  15. Into Thin Air (1997)  by Jon Krakauer
  16. Harry Potter series (1997-2007)  by J.K. Rowling
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