GMG's 100 Most Important Books Ever Written!

[MN Dave]

Kind of like DR's idea for CDs but different. Each member chooses one book--fiction, non-fiction, whatevah; don't select a book that someone else has already mentioned. Easy.

[AndyD.]

Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil

[CD]

Probably Sumerian tax records.

Or Ulysses.

[karlhenning]

You're going to wait a day or two before allowing us more than one each, Dave? ; )

Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

[MN Dave]

One each. I will bump this thread until we get all hundred selections.

[karlhenning]

At's the spirit!

Could rename this thread the Book Shed . . . .

[canninator]

Charles Darwin-On the Origin of Species

[MN Dave]

Dhammapada - Buddha

[MN Dave]

Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Ulysses
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Charles Darwin-On the Origin of Species
Dhammapada - Buddha

[Opus106]

Choose one for me.

Elements (consider it as one book in thirteen volumes) - Euclid [Link 1][Link2]

or

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton

[DavidRoss]

At's the spirit!

Could rename this thread the Book Shed . . . .

Please keep matches away from Knight.  Wouldn't want a repeat of the Alexandria Library weenie roast.

[MN Dave]

Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Ulysses
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Charles Darwin-On the Origin of Species
Dhammapada - Buddha
Elements (consider it as one book in thirteen volumes) - Euclid

[Guido]

Someone's got to say it: The Bible. Though I don't approve of it one bit.

[Todd]

[DavidRoss]

Someone's got to say it: The Bible. Though I don't approve of it one bit.

Thanks, I was just about to add it--hard to deny its profound influence. 

[Lethevich]

Gotta have some Prose Edda, yo.

[MN Dave]

Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Ulysses
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Charles Darwin-On the Origin of Species
Dhammapada - Buddha
Elements (consider it as one book in thirteen volumes) - Euclid
The Bible
Everyone Poops - Taro Gomi
Prose Edda
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[Bulldog]

Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

[karlhenning]

Someone's got to say it: The Bible. Though I don't approve of it one bit.

Don't approve of the document, or of some of the uses to which it is put?

[Scarpia]

What do you mean by "Most Important."  Influence on the world and civilization, or important to the development of the art of writing books?   If practical influence is meant, "Dummy's Guide to Microsoft Windows might be the most important book ever written.