The Twenty-Five Most Influential Books
PUBLISHED SINCE 1885
Compiled by Edward Weeks
With the collaboration of Professor John Dewey and Professor Charles A. Beard
NOMINATIONS OF JOHN DEWEY
1. Das Kapital (COMPLETE)
by Karl Marx
2. Looking Backward
by Edward Bellamy
3. The Golden Bough
by Sir James George Frazor
4. The Principles of Psychology
by William James
5. Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
6. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
7. The Theory of the Leisure Class
by Thorstein B. Veblen
8. Man and Superman
by George Bernard Shaw
9. The Way of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler
10. The Golden Bowl
by Henry James
11. Principia Mathematics
by B. A. W. Russell
and Alfred North Whitehead
12. The Mind of Primitive Man
by Franz Boas
13. The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
14. The Psychology of the Unconscious
by Carl Gustav Jung
15. Relativity, the Special and General Theory
by Albert Einstein
16. Outline of History
by H. G. Wells
17. Remembrance of Things Past
by Marcel Proust
18. Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
19. The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
20. The Decline of the West
by Oswald Spengler
21. Ulysses
by James Joyce
22. The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
23. The Rise of American Civilisation
by Charles and Mary Beard
24. The Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature
by Niels Bohr
25. Lectures on the Theory of Heat Radiation
by Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
NOMINATIONS OF EDWARD WEEKS
1. Das Kapital (complete)
by Karl Marx
2. Looking Backward
by Edward Bellamy
3. The Golden Bough
by Sir James George Frazer
4. The Principles of Psychology
by William James
5. The Kreutrer Sonata
by Leo Tolstoy
6. The Influence of Seapower upon
History, 1660-1783
by Alfred Mahan
7. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. Barrack-Room Ballads
by Ri id yard Kipling
9. Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant
by Ceorge Bernard Shaw
10. The Psychology of Sex
by Havelock Ellis
11. The School and Society
by John Dewey
12. History of the Standard Oil Company
by Ida M. Tarbell
13. The Mathematical Theory of Elec-
tricity and Magnetism by Sir James Hopwood Jeans
14. The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
15. Married Love and Wise Parenthood
by Marie Carmichael Stopes
16. Imperialism; the State and Revolution
by Vladimir Ilich Lenin
17. The Economic Consequences of the
Peace
by John Maynard Keynes
18. Relativity, the Special and General Theory
by Albert Einstein
19. Jean Christophe
by Romain Rolland
20. Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
21. The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
22. The Decline of the West
by Oswald Spengler
23. Ulysses
by James Joyce
24. The Internal Constitution of the Stars
by Arthur Stanley Eddington
25. All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
NOMINATIONS OF
CHARLES A. BEARD
1. Das Kapital (complete)
by Karl Marx
2. Looking Backward
by Edward Bellamy
3. The Golden Bough
by Sir James George Frazer
4. The Influence of Seapower upon History, 1660-1783
by Alfred Mahan
5. Barrack-Room Ballads
by liudyard Kipling
6. The Thenry of the Leisure Class
by Thorstein B. Veblen
7. Imperialism
by John Atkinson Hobson
8. The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
9. The Mathematical Theory of Elec-
tricity and Magnetism
by Sir James Hopwood Jeans
10. The Great Illusion
by Sir Norman Angell
11. Married Love and Wise Parenthood
by Marie Carmichael Slopes
12. Imperialism; the State and Revolution
by Vladimir Ilich Lenin
13. The Economic Consequences of the Peace
by John Maynard Keynes
14. Outline of History
by H. C. Wells
15. Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
16. The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson Turner
17. Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
18. Treatise on General_Sociology
by Vilfredo Pareto
19. The Decline of the West
by Oswald Spengler
20. The Internal Constitution of the Stars
by Arthur Stanley Eddington
21. Now It Can Be Told
by Sir Philip Hamilton Gibbs
22. Origins of the World War
by Sidney Bradshaw Fay
23. All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
24. History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky
25. My Battle
by Adolf Hitler
- Including books which have influenced both thought and action.↩