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Books That Changed the World: Part A

"Scholar Robert B. Downs selects the 'great works that revolutionized our ideas about the universe - and ourselves'."
This is one of the 122 source lists used to compile the master list at thegreatestbooks.org. The list does NOT contain all the books mentioned in Downs' work.
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The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha
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Various
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
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Homer
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
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Homer
Confessions (St. Augustine)
Confessions
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St. Augustine
Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
Summa Theologica
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Thomas Aquinas
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince
6
Niccolò Machiavelli
Newton Principia Mathematica
Newton Principia Mathematica
7
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
Common Sense
8
Thomas Paine
The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
The Wealth of Nations
9
Adam Smith
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
10
Mary Wollstonecraft
An Essay on the Principle of Population (Thomas Malthus)
An Essay on the Principle of Population
11
Thomas Malthus
Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)
Civil Disobedience
12
Henry David Thoreau
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
13
Harriet Beecher Stowe
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
On the Origin of Species
14
Charles Darwin
Capital (Karl Marx)
Capital
15
Karl Marx
The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)
The Interpretation of Dreams
16
Sigmund Freud
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson/USA)
Silent Spring
17
Rachel Carson/USA
Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)
Seven Against Thebes
18
Aeschylus
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Oresteia
19
Aeschylus
Persians (Aeschylus)
Persians
20
Aeschylus
The Suppliants (Aeschylus)
The Suppliants
21
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
Prometheus Bound
22
Aeschylus
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Oedipus at Colonus
23
Sophocles
Philoctetes (Sophocles)
Philoctetes
24
Sophocles
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Oedipus the King
25
Sophocles
Ajax (Sophocles)
Ajax
26
Sophocles
Women of Trachis
Women of Trachis
27
Electra (Sophocles)
Electra
28
Sophocles
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
29
Sophocles
The Bacchae (Euripides)
The Bacchae
30
Euripides
Medea (Euripides)
Medea
31
Euripides
The Trojan Women (Euripides)
The Trojan Women
32
Euripides
Hippolytus (Euripides)
Hippolytus
33
Euripides
Lysistrata (Aristophenes)
Lysistrata
34
Aristophenes
The Clouds (Aristophanes)
The Clouds
35
Aristophanes
The Birds (Aristophanes)
The Birds
36
Aristophanes
Herodotus -- The Histories (Herodotus)
Herodotus -- The Histories
37
Herodotus
The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
The Peloponnesian War
38
Thucydides
Parallel Lives (Plutarch)
Parallel Lives
39
Plutarch
De Rerum Natura (Lucretius)
De Rerum Natura
40
Lucretius
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