I was checking newsvine and found this article about the TWELVE BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD It’s a book written by Melvyn Bragg , about, yes, twelve (british of course) books that changed the world.
These are the ones the article cites:
TWELVE BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Principia Mathematica (1687) by Isaac Newton *
Married Love (1918) by Marie Stopes
Magna Carta (1215) by members of the English ruling classes
Book of Rules of Association Football (1863) by a group of former English public-school men
On the Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin (READED)
On the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1789) by William Wilberforce in Parliament, immediately printed in several versions
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft
Experimental Researches in Electricity (three volumes, 1839, 1844, 1855) by Michael Faraday
Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine (1769) by Richard Arkwright
The King James Bible (1611) by William Tyndale and 54 scholars appointed by the king (READED)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith (READED)*
The First Folio (1623) by William Shakespeare
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