50 Books that changed the world.

Andrew Taylor is the author of "Books That Changed The World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History." Here is the list of 50 books.



How many of these books have you read?


1. The Republic by Plato.
2. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
3. The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.
4. Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.
6. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.
7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe.
8. On Liberty by John Stewart Mill.
9. Das Kapital by Karl Marx.
10. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
11. Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevara.
12. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
13. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence.
14. Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
15. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
16. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
17. Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
18. 1984 by George Orwell.
19. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
20. Iliad and Odyssey by Homer.
21. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
22. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
23. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
24. The Arabian Nights Entertainment by Andrew Lang.
25. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
26. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupry.
27. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
28. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
29. Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi.
30. The Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft.
31. The Second xxx by Simone de Beauvoir.
32. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf.
33. Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
34. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
35. Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton.
36. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud.
37. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
38. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.
39. Geographia by Ptolemy.
40. The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein.
41. The Bible.
42. The Qur’an.
43. The Torah.
44. The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
45. The Analects of Confucius.
46. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas.
47. The Bhagavad Gita.
48. I Ching.
49. Tao Te Ching.
BONUS:
50. Bartleby by Hermann Melville.

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The Elite by Kiera Cass (novel) book review.

• Title: The Elite (a novel) Part 2 in the Selection series By: Kiera Cass
• Year: 2013. Haper Teen (hardcover)

Where I discovered this book:

I pre-ordered this book. I had previously ordered the Selection after hearing positive reviews about it last fall. The Elite arrived at my doorstep the day it was released. I realized that I needed to read The Selection, which I was able to read in two days. I read this book as soon as I put down the Selection and I loved them both.

What I liked About This Book:

As always, I love dystopian novels. This story takes place in a future North America country. The United States no longer exists after World War IV.

Most of this book review below consists of things covered in the first book. I didn’t want to give away any spoilers in this review.

Brief Synopsis of the book:

The real story consists of young America Singer who had won the Selection for a chance to marry Prince Maxon. Each of the 35 providences in this North American kingdom had a young woman selected to go to the castle and date Prince Maxon so he could select one to marry. The Elite consists of the women who are in the final state of the selection.

However, there is a major twist in the first book. America’s ex-boyfriend Aspen who had broken up with her arrives at the castle. He had been drafted to be in the army. He could have been sent anywhere in the world, but he ended up being stationed as a guard for the palace, which is often attacked by dangerous southerners and prankster northern. The country has a caste system. People with a lower number like the ones and twos are better off than the lower castes like an eight. America had been a five prior to being re-ranked as a 3 once she was selected. Maxon had been a six prior to being drafted.

Readers would think that the Selection consisted of Maxon and the Elite women. However, Maxon would close the deal and marry America if she’d only agree to say yes. Maxon is not forcing her to marry him. He wants her love to be authentic and he is giving her time.

The real selection is for America to decide. Does she go with her first love Aspen who she had planned a life with or does she decide to go with Prince Maxon and have a completely different life. America is torn. She needs to know if Prince Maxon is a “good guy.”

Things happen in the Elite book that causes her to question Maxon’s real character.

My Personal Selection:

I’ve indulged myself in these two books. I read them back to back very quickly. I know I am very excited for the next book in the series. Now, I need to pick a new book to read. I imagine I’ll read a non-fiction book or two next. I have a few in mind.

Who’d Like to Read This Book:

People who love young adult, teen fiction, dystopian novels, and love stories would enjoy this book.

The Book:

Other Books by Kiera Cass:

Books I Might Read Next:

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Book Review: The Selection (A Novel) by Kiera Cass

• Title: The Selection (a novel) By: Kiera Cass
• Year: 2012. Haper Teen (hardcover)

Where I discovered this book:

I had heard about this book in many places. I follow several girls who write book reviews at their blogs. I also watch youtube channels with book reviews. I can’t remember all the people who suggested this book, but I remember hearing and seeing about it often. I do recall that one of my local radio stations had made an announcement last fall that there was going to be a pilot for a television series for this book.  They gave a brief overview of the book and I figured I’d like it, so, I pre-ordered it before Christmastime with the hopes of reading it over my Christmas vacation in 2012. However, I regret to say that I had read other books and missed out on this awesome book.

What I liked about this book:

I love that this book is set in the future. I love future/ dystopian societies. This one takes place in a country called “Illea,” which is located in North America after the fall of the United States and World War IV.

The captivating story:

The main character is a teenager named America. She is in a lower caste system in the country. She is in love with a boy who is of a lower caste named Aspen. Aspen breaks it off with her because he feels like he can’t give her the life of pleasures because he is of a lower caste. He tells her to enter “The Selection,” The young prince Maxon is about to get married. However, he does not have much access to getting to know girls because he lives in a castle and he works a lot. There is a contest, which one girl from each of the 35 providences is selected to go to the castle for Prince Maxon to select one girl who’ll become his wife and princess of the nation and future Queen of the country. Of course America enters the contest and she wins. She has mixed feelings between her first love for Aspen who had broken things off with her and new, small kindling feelings for Prince Maxon. What is this girl to do? Find out by reading this book.

Who else might like this book?

People who enjoyed the Hunger Games books and movie might also enjoy this book because it is set in a future dystopian society.

The Selection takes place in a new formed post-apocalyptic North America country called “Illea,” as the Hunger Games takes place in a new formed post-apocalyptic North American country called, “Panem”

The main character in The Selection, “America” is a female much like “Katniss” in the Hunger Games.

Here is a link for this book:
It is ranked 2,143 in books today! That is awesome!


Part 2 is already out. I already have a copy of part 2 and will start reading it tonight. Part 2, The Elite, is ranked #311 in books today at Amazon. I can't wait to read it.

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Kiera Cass talks about the CW pilot for "The Selection!"

Kiera Cass is the author of The Selection and the CW is creating a pilot for the book!

I sure hope this series comes to life. Here is a neat video of Kiera Cass talking about this:

Here is another video with some of the people who'll be in this series: