How about a selection of the most monumental books ever written. Timeless classics that have influenced thought, consciousness and spirituality.

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Timeless Books of Wisdom

Votes Book TitleAuthor or Source

199Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau

103New TestamentChristian scripture

68QuranMuslim scripture

61Tao Te ChingLao Tsu

59MeditationsMarcus Aurelius

58Bhagavad GitaHindu scripture

57The RepublicPlato

50Communist ManifestoKarl Marx & Friedrich Engels

38Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes

32I ChingChinese classic texts

31Gospel of TruthValentinus

30KabbalahText of Judaic mysticism

28The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri

28The Little Red BookMao Zedong

23MasnaviRumi

22Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant

21Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke

20AnalectsConfucius

18First FolioWilliam Shakespeare

18OdysseyHomer

18The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli

17ConfessionsJean-Jacques Rousseau

17Guide for the PerplexedMoses Maimonides

16CandideFrancois-Marie de Voltaire

15DhammapadaTheravada Buddhist scripture

14IliadHomer

14In Praise of FollyDesiderius Erasmus

13RamayanaValmiki

12Corpus AristotelicumAristotle

12A Treatise of Human NatureDavid Hume

11EssaysMichael Eyquem de Montaigne

11ConfessionsAugustine of Hippo

9Discourse on MethodRene Descartes

9AeneidVirgil

8The Pilgrim's ProgressJohn Bunyan

8AvestaZoroastrian scripture

7EnneadsPlotinus

7Gargantua and PantagruelFrancois Rabelais

7Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas

7De Rerum NaturaLucretius

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