TLS 100 Most Influential Books since WW2 (list coming from here):
BOOKS OF THE 1940s
- Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex (Le Deuxieme Sexe)
- Marc Bloch: The Historian’s Craft (Apologie pour l’historie, ou, Metier d’ historien)
- Fernand Braudel: The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (La Mediterranee et le monde mediterraneen a l’epoque de Philippe II)
- James Burnham: The Managerial Revolution
- Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe)
- Albert Camus: The Outsider (L’Etranger)
- R. G. Collingwood: The Idea of History
- Erich Fromm: The Fear of Freedom (Die Furcht vor der Freiheit)
- Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno: Dialectic of Enlightenment (Dialektik der Aufklärung)
- Karl Jaspers: The Perennial Scope of Philosophy (Der philosophische Glaube)
- Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon
- Andre Malraux: Man’s Fate (La Condition humaine)
- Franz Neumann: Behemoth: The structure and practice of National Socialism
- George Orwell: Animal Farm
- George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-four
- Karl Polanyi: The Great Transformation
- Karl Popper: The Open Society and Its Enemies
- Paul Samuelson: Economics: An introductory analysis
- Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism and Humanism (L’Existentialisme est un humanisme)
- Joseph Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
- Martin Wight: Power Politic
BOOKS OF THE 1950s - Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Raymond Aron: The Opium of the Intellectuals (L’Opium des intellectuels)
- Kenneth Arrow: Social Choice and Individual Values
- Roland Barthes: Mythologies
- Winston Churchill: The Second World War
- Norman Cohn: The Pursuit of the Millennium
- Milovan Djilas: The New Class: An analysis of the Communist system
- Mircea Eliade: Images and Symbols (Images et symboles)
- Erik Erikson: Young Man Luther: A study in psychoanalysis and history
- Lucien Febvre: The Struggle for History (Combat pour l’histoire)
- John Kenneth Galbraith: The Affluent Society
- Erving Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- Arthur Koestler and Richard Crossman (eds): The God That Failed: Six studies in Communism
- Primo Levi: If This Is a Man (Se questo e’ un uomo)
- Claude Levi-Strauss: A World on the Wane (Tristes tropiques)
- Czeslaw Milosz: The Captive Mind (Zniewolony umysl)
- Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
- David Riesman: The Lonely Crowd
- Herbert Simon: Models of Man, Social and Rational
- C. P. Snow: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
- Leo Strauss: Natural Right and History
- J. L. Talmon: The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
- A. J. P. Taylor: The Struggle for Mastery in Europe
- Arnold Toynbee: A Study of History
- Karl Wittfogel: Oriental Despotism: A comparative study of total power
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations (Philosophische Untersuchungen)
BOOKS OF THE 1960s - Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil
- Daniel Bell: The End of Ideology
- Isaiah Berlin: Four Essays on Liberty
- Albert Camus: Notebooks 19351951 (Carnets)
- Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power (Masse und Macht)
- Robert Dahl: Who Governs?: Democracy and power in an American city
- Mary Douglas: Purity and Danger
- Erik Erikson: Gandhi’s Truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence
- Michel Foucault: Madness and civilization: A history of insanity in the Age of Reason (Histoire de la folie a l’age classique)
- Milton Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom
- Alexander Gerschenkron: Economic Backwardness in Historial Perspective
- Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks (Quaderni del carcere)
- H. L. A. Hart: The Concept of Law
- Friedrich von Hayek: The Constitution of Liberty (Die Verfassung der Freiheit)
- Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Carl Gustav Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Erinnerungen, Traeume, Gedanken)
- Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie: The Peasants of Languedoc (Les Paysans de Languedoc)
- Claude Levi-Strauss: The Savage Mind (Le Pensee sauvage)
- Konrad Lorenz: On Aggression (Das sogenannte Böse)
- Thomas Schelling: The Strategy of Conflict
- Fritz Stern: The Politics of Cultural Despair
- E. P. Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class
BOOKS OF THE 1970s - Daniel Bell: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
- Isaiah Berlin: Russian Thinkers
- Ronald Dworkin: Taking Rights Seriously
- Clifford Geertz: The Interpretation of Cultures
- Albert Hirschman: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
- Leszek Kolakowski: Main Currents of Marxism (Glowne nurty marksizmu)
- Hans Küng: On Being a Christian (Christ Sein)
- Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia
- John Rawls: A Theory of Justice
- Gershom Scholem: The Messianic Idea in Judaism, and other essays on Jewish spirituality
- Ernst Friedrich Schumacher: Small Is Beautiful
- Tibor Scitovsky: The Joyless Economy
- Quentin Skinner: The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago
- Keith Thomas: Religion and the Decline of Magic
BOOKS OF THE 1980s and beyond - Raymond Aron: Memoirs (Memoires)
- Peter Berger: The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty propositions about prosperity, equality and liberty
- Norberto Bobbio: The Future of Democracy (Il futuro della democrazia)
- Karl Dietrich Bracher: The Totalitarian Experience (Die totalitäre Erfahrung)
- John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman (eds): The New Palgrave: The world of economics
- Ernest Gellner: Nations and Nationalism
- Vaclav Havel: Living in Truth
- Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time
- Paul Kennedy: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
- Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- Primo Levi: The Drowned and the Saved (I sommersi e i salvati)
- Roger Penrose: The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics
- Richard Rorty: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
- Amartya Sen: Resources, Values and Development
- Michael Walzer: Spheres of Justice
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