**A thought-provoking chronological timeline of the world’s most influential books.** Many books have become classics, must-reads, or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think? In *100 Books that Changed the World* , authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter bring together an exceptional collection of truly ground-breaking books—from scriptures that founded religions, to scientific treatises that challenged beliefs, to novels that kick-started literary genres. This elegantly designed book, first published in 2018 but updated with an exciting new cover, offers a chronological timeline of three millennia of human thought distilled in print, from the earliest illuminated manuscripts to the age of eBooks and audiobooks. Entries include: * *The Iliad* and *The Odyssey* , Homer (750 BC) * Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623) * *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman* , Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) * *Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass* (1845) * *The Diary of a Young Girl* , Anne Frank (1947) * *Things Fall Apart* , Chinua Achebe (1958) * *A Brief History of Time* , Stephen Hawking (1988)