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The hundred most influential books since the war (community list)

 

This series contains 100 books.

  1. The Second Sex
    Book 1

    The Second Sex (1949)

    by Simone de Beauvoir

  2. The Historian's Craft
    Book 2

    The Historian's Craft

    by Marc Bloch

  3. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
    Book 3

    The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1966)

    by Fernand Braudel

  4. The Managerial Revolution
    Book 4

    The Managerial Revolution

    What is Happening in the World

    by James Burnham

  5. The Myth of Sisyphus
    Book 5

    The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)

    and Other Essays

    by Albert Camus

  6. The Stranger
    Book 6

    The Stranger (1942)

    by Albert Camus

  7. The Idea of History: With Lectures 1926-1928
    Book 7

    The Idea of History: With Lectures 1926-1928

    by R. G. Collingwood

  8. The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics S.)
    Book 8

    The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics S.)

    by Erich Fromm

  9. Dialectic of Enlightenment
    Book 9

    Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

    by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno

  10. The perennial scope of philosophy
    Book 10

    The perennial scope of philosophy

    by Karl Jaspers

  11. Darkness at Noon
    Book 11

    Darkness at Noon (1940)

    by Arthur Koestler

  12. Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine)
    Book 12

    Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine) (1933)

    by André Malraux

  13. Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944
    Book 13

    Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944

    by Franz L. Neumann

  14. Animal Farm
    Book 14

    Animal Farm (1945)

    by George Orwell

  15. 1984
    Book 15

    1984 (1949)

    by George Orwell

  16. The Great Transformation
    Book 16

    The Great Transformation

    The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

    by Karl Polanyi

  17. The Open Society and Its Enemies
    Book 17

    The Open Society and Its Enemies

    by Karl Popper

  18. Economics; an introductory analysis
    Book 18

    Economics; an introductory analysis

    by Paul Anthony Samuelson

  19. Existentialism is a Humanism
    Book 19

    Existentialism is a Humanism (1946)

    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  20. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
    Book 20

    Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

    by Joseph A. Schumpeter

  21. Power Politics (Pelican S.)
    Book 21

    Power Politics (Pelican S.)

    by Martin Wight

  22. The Origins of Totalitarianism
    Book 22

    The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

    by Hannah Arendt

  23. The Opium of the Intellectuals
    Book 23

    The Opium of the Intellectuals

    by Raymond Aron

  24. Social Choice & Individual Values
    Book 24

    Social Choice & Individual Values

    by Kenneth J. Arrow

  25. Mythologies
    Book 25

    Mythologies (1972)

    by Roland Barthes

  26. The Second World War
    Book 26

    The Second World War

    by Winston S. Churchill

  27. Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages. (Revised and Expanded Edition).
    Book 27

    Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages. (Revised and Expanded Edition).

    by Norman Cohn

  28. The New Class
    Book 28

    The New Class (1957)

    An Analysis of the Communist System

    by Milovan Djilas

  29. Images and Symbols
    Book 29

    Images and Symbols

    Studies in Religious Symbolism

    by Mircea Eliade

  30. Young Man Luther
    Book 30

    Young Man Luther

    A Study in Psychoanalysis and History

    by Erik H. Erikson

  31. Combats pour l'Histoire
    Book 31

    Combats pour l'Histoire

    by Lucien Paul Victor Febvre

  32. The Affluent Society
    Book 32

    The Affluent Society

    by John Kenneth Galbraith

  33. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
    Book 33

    The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

    by Erving Goffman

  34. The God That Failed
    Book 34

    The God That Failed

    by Arthur Koestler

  35. Survival in Auschwitz
    Book 35

    Survival in Auschwitz (1947)

    by Primo Levi

  36. A World On The Wane
    Book 36

    A World On The Wane

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss

  37. The Captive Mind
    Book 37

    The Captive Mind

    by Czesław Miłosz

  38. Doctor Zhivago
    Book 38

    Doctor Zhivago (1957)

    by Boris Pasternak

  39. The Lonely Crowd
    Book 39

    The Lonely Crowd (1950)

    A Study of the Changing American Character

    by David Riesman

  40. Models of Man Social and Rational: Mathematical Essays on Rational Human Behavior in a Social Setting
    Book 40

    Models of Man Social and Rational: Mathematical Essays on Rational Human Behavior in a Social Setting

    by Herbert A. Simon

  41. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
    Book 41

    The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution

    by C. P. Snow

  42. Natural Right and History
    Book 42

    Natural Right and History

    by Leo Strauss

  43. The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
    Book 43

    The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy

    by J. L. Talmon

  44. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918
    Book 44

    The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 (1955)

    by A. J. P. Taylor

  45. A Study of History
    Book 45

    A Study of History (1939)

    by Arnold Joseph Toynbee

  46. Oriental Despotism
    Book 46

    Oriental Despotism (1957)

    A Comparative Study of Total Power

    by Karl August Wittfogel

  47. Philosophical Investigations
    Book 47

    Philosophical Investigations

    by Ludwig Wittgenstein

  48. Eichmann in Jerusalem
    Book 48

    Eichmann in Jerusalem

    A Report on the Banality of Evil

    by Hannah Arendt

  49. The End of Ideology
    Book 49

    The End of Ideology

    On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties

    by Daniel Bell

  50. Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford Paperbacks)
    Book 50

    Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford Paperbacks)

    by Isaiah Berlin

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