{{short description|1998 book by Martin Seymour-Smith}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2024}} <!-- For copyright reasons, DO NOT add the full list here. If you want to see the list, view it with an external link -->
{{Infobox book | name = The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today | title_orig = | translator = | image = Martin Seymour-Smith - The 100 most influential books ever written the history of thought from ancient times to today.jpeg | caption = | author = Martin Seymour-Smith | illustrator = | cover_artist = Francis Cugat | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = | published = September 1998, Citadel | media_type = Print (hardcover and paperback) | isbn =978-0806520001 | oclc = 38258131 }} '''''The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today''''' (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith, a British poet, critic, and biographer.<ref>{{cite book|last=Seymour-Smith|first=Martin|title=The 100 most influential books ever written : the history of thought from ancient times to today|year=1998|publisher=Carol Publ. Group|location=Secaucus, New Jersey|isbn=978-0806520001| oclc = 38258131 }}</ref>
The list starts in order with the first ten books: the ''I Ching'' (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'', the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), the ''Tao Te Ching'', the Avesta, the ''Analects'' (of Confucius), the ''History of the Peloponnesian War'', the Hippocratic Corpus and the Corpus Aristotelicum.
==See also== * List of best-selling books * Bokklubben World Library
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://thegreatestbooks.org/lists/45 The books listed], at "The Greatest Books" website
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