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Oct 07, 2019 the ten most influential books ive read. This list intrigues me even more than the last because i love literature. To make this list, the book need not be great, good, or even intelligible just extraordinarily influential. May 05, 2019 top 10 most influential business books of all time more business books on everyday power blog. In any given year, an average of 275,000 books are published in the united states, some 43,000 of them fiction. It wasnt the first book of this kind that i had read, but for the first time, i felt open to. Because most humans are intelligent, adaptive, and willing to be lifetime learners. It remains to this day one of the books with the most impact of all time. A list of 25, 50, or 100 would not afford sufficient space for such a list. No matter what religion you practice im not a catholic by the way, guttenbergs edition of the bible is the most influential book ever, after all it was the first printed book in the world, and that has made all the difference. The bondage of the will because of its theological insight and its literary style. Harper lee, believed to be one of the most influential authors to have ever existed.
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