"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes." - Erasmus
Un listado comprensivo de los títulos que más han influenciado la historia del mundo, desde filosofía hasta ciencia y desde ficción hasta religión . La lista para una prolongada asignación.
- I Ching
- El Viejo Testamento
- La Iliada y La Odisea, Homero
- The Upanishads
- The Way and Its Power, Lao-tzu
- The Avesta
- Analects, Confucio
- Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso, Thucydides
- Trabajos, Hipocrates
- Trabajos, Aristóteles
- Historia, Herodoto
- La República, Platón
- Elementos, Euclides
- The Dhammapada
- La Eneida, Virgilio
- En la naturaleza de la realidad, Lucretius
- Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws, Philo of Alexandria
- El Nuevo Testamento
- Lives, Plutarch
- Annals, from the Death of the Divine Augustus, Cornelius Tacitus
- El Evangelio de la Verdad
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Sextus Empiricus
- Enneads, Plotinus
- Confessions, Augustine of Hippo
- El Corán
- Guide for the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides
- El Kabbalah
- Suma Teológica, Santo Tomás de Aquino
- La Divina Comedia, Dante Alighieri
- In Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus
- El Príncipe Niccolò Machiavelli
- On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther
- Gargantua y Pantagruel, François Rabelais
- Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
- La revolución de la órbita celeste, Nicolaus Copernicus
- Ensayos, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Don Quijote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes
- La armonía del mundo, Johannes Kepler
- Novum Organum, Francis Bacon
- The First Folio [Works], William Shakespeare
- Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems, Galileo Galilei
- Discurso del método, René Descartes
- Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
- Works, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Pensées, Blaise Pascal
- Etica, Baruch de Spinoza
- Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
- Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
- The Principles of Human Knowledge, George Berkeley
- The New Science, Giambattista Vico
- A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume
- The Encyclopedia, Denis Diderot, ed.
- A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson
- El cándido, François-Marie de Voltaire
- Common Sense, Thomas Paine
- An Enquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
- Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
- Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke
- Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft
- An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, William Godwin
- An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Robert Malthus
- Phenomenology of Spirit, George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- The World as Will and Idea, Arthur Schopenhauer
- Course in the Positivist Philosophy, Auguste Comte
- On War, Carl Marie von Clausewitz
- Either/Or, Søren Kierkegaard
- El manifiesto comunista, Karl Marx y Friedrich Engels
- "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau
- El origen de las especies, Charles Darwin
- On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
- First Principles, Herbert Spencer
- "Experiments with Plant Hybrids," Gregor Mendel
- Guerra y paz, Leo Tolstoy
- Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, James Clerk Maxwell
- Así habló Zaratustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
- La interpretación de los sueños, Sigmund Freud
- Pragmatismo, William James
- Relatividad, Albert Einstein
- Mente y sociedad, Vilfredo Pareto
- Psychological Types, Carl Gustav Jung
- I and Thou, Martin Buber
- El proceso, Franz Kafka
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper
- Tería general de empleo, interés y dinero, John Maynard Keynes
- Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich von Hayek
- El segundo sexo, Simone de Beauvoir
- Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener
- 1984, George Orwell
- Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
- Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Syntactic Structures, Noam Chomsky
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, T. S. Kuhn
- The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung [The Little Red Book], Mao Zedong
- Beyond Freedom and Dignity, B. F. Skinner