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

118Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau

50New TestamentChristian scripture

41Tao Te ChingLao Tsu

40The RepublicPlato

36Communist ManifestoKarl Marx & Friedrich Engels

32Bhagavad GitaHindu scripture

25Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes

20QuranMuslim scripture

16I ChingChinese classic texts

15MeditationsMarcus Aurelius

13The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri

11CandideFrancois-Marie de Voltaire

11OdysseyHomer

11MasnaviRumi

10First FolioWilliam Shakespeare

10KabbalahText of Judaic mysticism

10Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant

8AnalectsConfucius

7DhammapadaTheravada Buddhist scripture

7Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke

7In Praise of FollyDesiderius Erasmus

7Gospel of TruthValentinus

6The Little Red BookMao Zedong

6Discourse on MethodRene Descartes

5Guide for the PerplexedMoses Maimonides

5The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli

5ConfessionsJean-Jacques Rousseau

5Corpus AristotelicumAristotle

5IliadHomer

4EnneadsPlotinus

4ConfessionsAugustine of Hippo

4AeneidVirgil

4Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas

4A Treatise of Human NatureDavid Hume

4RamayanaValmiki

4AvestaZoroastrian scripture

3Gargantua and PantagruelFrancois Rabelais

3EssaysMichael Eyquem de Montaigne

3De Rerum NaturaLucretius

3The Pilgrim's ProgressJohn Bunyan

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