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World's Most Influential Stories

The list tries to include influential fictional stories, the narratives you can't help but notice everywhere in our culture.
- every single human culture is sophisticated enough to have folk tales and I wouldn't even know where to begin and where to end... (I included The Grimm Brothers because they took the stories to paper and so have become super popular)
- I chose epic poems from every major area (at least 1)
- from hero tales to junkie tales. From ancient tales to post colonial stories. From knights to spaceships and everything in between
- poems are only included if they are very influential to multiple cultures, like Chinese poetry for instance, but epic poems are preferred
- I tried to include from as many areas as possible (just because Vietnam or Finland did not have the empire or industry or historical context to spread their culture as much as England or France, doesn't mean that their epic poems are not important to many people
- I avoided non fiction or philosophy books
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Tale of Sinuhe
The Tale of Sinuhe
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Book of Songs (Zhou Dynasty)
Book of Songs (Zhou Dynasty)
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The Ramayana
The Ramayana
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Mahabharata
Mahabharata
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The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad (Homer)
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
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Medea (Euripides)
Medea (Euripides)
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Oedipus Rex (Greece)
Oedipus Rex (Greece)
10
Lysistrata and Other Plays (Aristophanes)
Lysistrata and Other Plays (Aristophanes)
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The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica
The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica
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The Little Clay Cart (Shudraka)
The Little Clay Cart (Shudraka)
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The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
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Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
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The Satyricon
The Satyricon
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The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
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Daphnis and Chloe (Longus)
Daphnis and Chloe (Longus)
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Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet) (Prince Ilango Adigal)
Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet) (Prince Ilango Adigal)
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The Works of Tao Yuanming
The Works of Tao Yuanming
20
Beowulf
Beowulf
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Daredevils of Sassoun (Anon)
Daredevils of Sassoun (Anon)
22
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland
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Digenis Akritas (Anonymous)
Digenis Akritas (Anonymous)
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Kadambari by Banabhatta, Translated by Padmini Rajappa
Kadambari by Banabhatta, Translated by Padmini Rajappa
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Jangar (Mongolia)
Jangar (Mongolia)
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The Book of Dede Korkut (Traditional Turkish)
The Book of Dede Korkut (Traditional Turkish)
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Tristan and Isolde
Tristan and Isolde
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Abolqasem Ferdowsi)
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Abolqasem Ferdowsi)
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Works of Kalidasa
Works of Kalidasa
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The Courtesan's Keeper (Samaya Matrika) (Kshemendra)
The Courtesan's Keeper (Samaya Matrika) (Kshemendra)
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Tales From the Kathasaritasagara
Tales From the Kathasaritasagara
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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
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The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
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Epic of King Gesar (Anonymous)
Epic of King Gesar (Anonymous)
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The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Shota Rustaveli)
The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Shota Rustaveli)
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The Story of Leyla and Majnun (Nizami)
The Story of Leyla and Majnun (Nizami)
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The Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance (Nizami Ganjavi)
The Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance (Nizami Ganjavi)
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Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan (Ibn Tufayl)
Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan (Ibn Tufayl)
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Theologus Autodidactus (Ibn Al Nafis)
Theologus Autodidactus (Ibn Al Nafis)
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Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (D.T. Niane)
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (D.T. Niane)
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