The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith, a British poet, critic, and biographer.^[1]

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

Author	Martin Seymour-Smith
Cover artist	Francis Cugat
Language	English
Published	September 1998, Citadel
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
ISBN	978-0806520001
OCLC	38258131

The list starts in order with the first ten books: the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the Iliad and Odyssey, the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), the Tao Te Ching, the Avesta, the Analects (of Confucius), the History of the Peloponnesian War, the Hippocratic Corpus and the Corpus Aristotelicum.

See also

• List of best-selling books
• Bokklubben World Library