The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
Martin Seymour-Smith, 100 Books
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith (1928–1998), a British poet, critic, and biographer.
This list was originally published in 1998 and was added to this site over 12 years ago.