The Twenty-Five Most Influential Books

PUBLISHED SINCE 1885

Compiled by Edward Weeks

With the collaboration of Professor John Dewey and Professor Charles A. Beard

NOMINATIONS OF JOHN DEWEY

1. Das Kapital (COMPLETE)

by Karl Marx

2. Looking Backward

by Edward Bellamy

3. The Golden Bough

by Sir James George Frazor

4. The Principles of Psychology

by William James

5. Hedda Gabler

by Henrik Ibsen

6. Tess of the D’Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

7. The Theory of the Leisure Class

by Thorstein B. Veblen

8. Man and Superman

by George Bernard Shaw

9. The Way of All Flesh

by Samuel Butler

10. The Golden Bowl

by Henry James

11. Principia Mathematics

by B. A. W. Russell

and Alfred North Whitehead

12. The Mind of Primitive Man

by Franz Boas

13. The Education of Henry Adams

by Henry Adams

14. The Psychology of the Unconscious

by Carl Gustav Jung

15. Relativity, the Special and General Theory

by Albert Einstein

16. Outline of History

by H. G. Wells

17. Remembrance of Things Past

by Marcel Proust

18. Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

19. The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

20. The Decline of the West

by Oswald Spengler

21. Ulysses

by James Joyce

22. The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann

23. The Rise of American Civilisation

by Charles and Mary Beard

24. The Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature

by Niels Bohr

25. Lectures on the Theory of Heat Radiation

by Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

NOMINATIONS OF EDWARD WEEKS

1. Das Kapital (complete)

by Karl Marx

2. Looking Backward

by Edward Bellamy

3. The Golden Bough

by Sir James George Frazer

4. The Principles of Psychology

by William James

5. The Kreutrer Sonata

by Leo Tolstoy

6. The Influence of Seapower upon

History, 1660-1783

by Alfred Mahan

7. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

8. Barrack-Room Ballads

by Ri id yard Kipling

9. Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant

by Ceorge Bernard Shaw

10. The Psychology of Sex

by Havelock Ellis

11. The School and Society

by John Dewey

12. History of the Standard Oil Company

by Ida M. Tarbell

13. The Mathematical Theory of Elec-

tricity and Magnetism by Sir James Hopwood Jeans

14. The Education of Henry Adams

by Henry Adams

15. Married Love and Wise Parenthood

by Marie Carmichael Stopes

16. Imperialism; the State and Revolution

by Vladimir Ilich Lenin

17. The Economic Consequences of the

Peace

by John Maynard Keynes

18. Relativity, the Special and General Theory

by Albert Einstein

19. Jean Christophe

by Romain Rolland

20. Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis

21. The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

22. The Decline of the West

by Oswald Spengler

23. Ulysses

by James Joyce

24. The Internal Constitution of the Stars

by Arthur Stanley Eddington

25. All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

NOMINATIONS OF

CHARLES A. BEARD

1. Das Kapital (complete)

by Karl Marx

2. Looking Backward

by Edward Bellamy

3. The Golden Bough

by Sir James George Frazer

4. The Influence of Seapower upon History, 1660-1783

by Alfred Mahan

5. Barrack-Room Ballads

by liudyard Kipling

6. The Thenry of the Leisure Class

by Thorstein B. Veblen

7. Imperialism

by John Atkinson Hobson

8. The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

9. The Mathematical Theory of Elec-

tricity and Magnetism

by Sir James Hopwood Jeans

10. The Great Illusion

by Sir Norman Angell

11. Married Love and Wise Parenthood

by Marie Carmichael Slopes

12. Imperialism; the State and Revolution

by Vladimir Ilich Lenin

13. The Economic Consequences of the Peace

by John Maynard Keynes

14. Outline of History

by H. C. Wells

15. Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis

16. The Frontier in American History

by Frederick Jackson Turner

17. Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

18. Treatise on General_Sociology

by Vilfredo Pareto

19. The Decline of the West

by Oswald Spengler

20. The Internal Constitution of the Stars

by Arthur Stanley Eddington

21. Now It Can Be Told

by Sir Philip Hamilton Gibbs

22. Origins of the World War

by Sidney Bradshaw Fay

23. All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

24. History of the Russian Revolution

by Leon Trotsky

25. My Battle

by Adolf Hitler