Most Influential Books in History

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Lots of books have shaped our civilisation. In this list are the most important of them. Let us vote. Let us rerank. Let us decide which books have truly made a mark in human history.

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Beowulf

Welwyn Wilton Katz

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Iliad

Homer

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The True Story of Ah Q

Lu Xun

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Zizhi Tongjian

Sima Guang

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The Art of War

Sun Tzu

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Odyssey

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Water Margin

Shi Naian

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Dao De Jing

Laozi

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Han Feizi

Han Fei

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Luo Guanzhong

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Dream of the Red Chamber

Cao Xueqin, Tsao Hsueh-Chin, Hsüeh-chʻin Tsʻao More

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Three Hundred Tang Poems

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I Ching

“ Proper spelling: Yi Jing „

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Records of the Grand Historian

Sima Qian

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The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

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Confucian analects

Confucius

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Spring and Autumn Annals

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

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Bible

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Classic of Poetry

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Zhan Guo Ce

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Classic of History

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Classic of Rites

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Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi

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Na han

Lu Xun

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Mencius

Mencius.

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Literary Mind and Carving of Dragons

Anthony Lawrence, Xie Liu

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The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Koran

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The Doctrine Of The Mean

Zi Si

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Journey to the West

Wu Cheng'en

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Great Learning

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