impact on the world

[nat965]

What book (excluding religious texts) do you think has made the biggest impact on the world?

[LUCPIX]

(Not limited to) Harry Potter. I strongly believe that at least half of the for-teens trilogies has HP's timing, storytelling method, etc etc as inspirational source. It's like F.R.I.E.N.D.S from the literature

[FlyingJesus]

Republic by Plato, almost certainly

[TinyFroggy]

The Diary of Anne Frank. If it doesn't make great impact in the world, at least it does to a class of underdog students (according to Freedom Writers).

[Zak]

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

[lawrawrrr]

Going on purely fiction publications I would probably go for some of the more like dystopia type books, Brave New World, 1984, they had a real impact on the relationship between person and state and I think a lot of people really changed the way they looked at that as a result. I certainly did!


Other than political or philosophical manifestos (communist manifesto, thomas paine's stuff, plato's republic)

[Zak]

Going on purely fiction publications I would probably go for some of the more like dystopia type books, Brave New World, 1984, they had a real impact on the relationship between person and state and I think a lot of people really changed the way they looked at that as a result. I certainly did!


Other than political or philosophical manifestos (communist manifesto, thomas paine's stuff, plato's republic)

Orwell was a literary genius.

I think the question here is what constitutes a 'book'? E.g. is Principia Mathematica a book? I wouldn't consider Marx's communist manifesto a book.. I see it more as a document.

It would be interesting to hear people's thoughts on the matter!