Can you name ten books, which in your opinion, have disturbed and may have altered the flow of history?

Question

Gave really a lot of thought to these lists because all answers were outstanding. I will follow half my heart half my head and vote for the best.

Answer 1

Rights of Man Thomas Payne

Capital Carl Marx

Koran

The Bible

The Republic Plato

Origin of Species Charles Darwin

The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith

Iliad Homer

Odyssey Homer

The Art of War Machiavelli

Answer 2

1. Dante's Divine Comedy
2. Gutenberg's Bible
3. Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
4. Copernicus' On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
5. Locke's The Two Treatises Of Government
6. Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
7. Darwin's Origin of Species
8. Marx's and Engel's Communist Manifesto
9. Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
10. Woodward's and Bernstein's All the President's Men

Answer 3

E.P. Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class"

Karl Marx' "das Kapital"

Sir Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France"

Plato's "Republic"

John Locke's "Second Treatise on Government"

Rousseau's "Social Contract"

John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty"

James Joyce's "Ulyses"

Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"

Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address"..not a book but a revolutionary piece of prose nonetheless!

Answer 4

Alcoholics Anonymous (but in a good way)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (also good)
Gone with the Wind
Whatever the Marquis de Sade wrote
not a book, but Nellie Bly's article about living in an asylum
The (Christian) Bible
Alfred Kinsey's research
Linux for Dummies

Wow! "someone" came up with ten.

Answer 5

Wow, umm, I don't know about 10, but here are some anyway...1) Works of William Shakespeare, Darwin's the Origin of Species, the works of Sir Isac Newton, the works of Plato, the works of Galileo, the works of Immanuel Kant and Sigmund Freud.

Those are some of my guesses, they sure changed my life.

Answer 6

The Social Contract by Rousseau (inspired French Revolution)
Common Sense by Paine (inspired Declaration of Independence)
Communist Manifesto by Marx (inspired marxist Revolutions all over)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe (galvanized abolitionist movement)
Vindication of the Rights of Women by Wollstonecraft (inspired feminism)
The Prince by Machiavelli (inspired secular-based rulership rather than spiritual)
Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis by Harvey (describes circulation of blood, starting modern medicine)
De Revolutionibus by Copernicus (describes earth revolving around the sun, starting Scientific Revolution)
Genesis by whoever (1st religious writing involving a pantheon of 1 deity, inspiring the 3 monotheistic faiths of today)
Mein Kampf by Hitler (inspired Nazi Germany and WWII)

Answer 7

I like "someone"'s choices. Also, a very thorough answer.

Answer 8

lord of the flies