Twenty Books that Changed the World
This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
The Guardian, 20 Books
The “Twenty Books that Changed the World” shortlist was assembled in October 2015 for the first Academic Book Week: a panel of specialist academic booksellers, librarians and publishers whittled 200 titles submitted by UK publishers down to a top-20 line-up, then opened an online ballot to the public to decide which work had had the greatest scholarly impact. During the fortnight-long vote, just over 900 people cast ballots, with Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species taking 26 % of the “900-plus” votes and topping the poll.
This list was originally published in 2015 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.
