1. The Bible – ✝️
2. The Quran – ☪️
3. The Communist Manifesto – 🇩🇪 Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
4. The Republic – 🇬🇷 Plato
5. On the Origin of Species – 🇬🇧 Charles Darwin
6. 1984 – 🇬🇧 George Orwell
7. The Iliad – 🇬🇷 Homer
8. The Odyssey – 🇬🇷 Homer
9. The Bhagavad Gita – 🇮🇳 Ancient India
10. The Analects – 🇨🇳 Confucius
11. Tao Te Ching – 🇨🇳 Laozi
12. The Wealth of Nations – 🇬🇧 Adam Smith
13. The Prince – 🇮🇹 Niccolò Machiavelli
14. The Art of War – 🇨🇳 Sun Tzu
15. The Divine Comedy – 🇮🇹 Dante Alighieri
16. Don Quixote – 🇪🇸 Miguel de Cervantes
17. Hamlet – 🇬🇧 William Shakespeare
18. The Diary of Anne Frank – 🇳🇱 Anne Frank
19. Meditations – 🇮🇹/🇬🇷 Marcus Aurelius (Roman Empire)
20. The Social Contract – 🇫🇷 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
21. The Rights of Man – 🇬🇧 Thomas Paine
22. The Federalist Papers – 🇺🇸 Hamilton, Madison, Jay
23. A Brief History of Time – 🇬🇧 Stephen Hawking
24. Common Sense – 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 Thomas Paine
25. The Alchemist – 🇧🇷 Paulo Coelho
26. The Gulag Archipelago – 🇷🇺 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
27. The Canterbury Tales – 🇬🇧 Geoffrey Chaucer
28. War and Peace – 🇷🇺 Leo Tolstoy
29. The Interpretation of Dreams – 🇦🇹 Sigmund Freud
30. The Second Sex – 🇫🇷 Simone de Beauvoir
31. Silent Spring – 🇺🇸 Rachel Carson
32. To Kill a Mockingbird – 🇺🇸 Harper Lee
33. The Wretched of the Earth – 🇬🇵 Frantz Fanon (Martinique/Algeria 🇩🇿)
34. The Souls of Black Folk – 🇺🇸 W.E.B. Du Bois
35. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – 🇬🇧 Douglas Adams
36. Man’s Search for Meaning – 🇦🇹 Viktor Frankl
37. Leviathan – 🇬🇧 Thomas Hobbes
38. The Book of the Dead – 🇪🇬 Ancient Egypt
39. The Epic of Gilgamesh – 🇮🇶 Ancient Mesopotamia
40. Ulysses – 🇮🇪 James Joyce
41. The Catcher in the Rye – 🇺🇸 J.D. Salinger
42. The Little Prince – 🇫🇷 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
43. Things Fall Apart – 🇳🇬 Chinua Achebe
44. Animal Farm – 🇬🇧 George Orwell
45. Les Misérables – 🇫🇷 Victor Hugo
46. The Brothers Karamazov – 🇷🇺 Fyodor Dostoevsky
47. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – 🇬🇧 Mary Wollstonecraft
48. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – 🇺🇸 Thomas Kuhn
49. Sapiens – 🇮🇱 Yuval Noah Harari
50. The 48 Laws of Power – 🇺🇸 Robert Greene