Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries...
Human Events (the National Conservative Weekly) published a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries, with 20 additional "honorable mention" books.
Mark the ones you've read in bold.
The 10 most harmful
The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels)
Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book)
The Kinsey Report (Alfred Kinsey)
Democracy and Education (John Dewey)
Das Kapital (Karl Marx)
The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan)
The Course of Positive Philosophy (Auguste Comte)
Beyond Good and Evil (Freidrich Nietzsche)
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (John Maynard Keynes)
Honorable Mentions
The Population Bomb (by Paul Ehrlich)
What Is To Be Done (V.I. Lenin)
Authoritarian Personality (Theodor Adorno )
On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (B.F. Skinner )
Reflections on Violence (Georges Sorel )
The Promise of American Life (Herbert Croly)
Origin of the Species (Charles Darwin)
Madness and Civilization (Michel Foucault)
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization (Sidney and Beatrice Webb)
Coming of Age in Samoa (Margaret Mead)
Unsafe at Any Speed (Ralph Nader)
Second Sex (Simone de Beauvoir)
Prison Notebooks (Antonio Gramsci)
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon)
Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud )
The Greening of America (Charles Reich)
The Limits to Growth (Club of Rome)
Descent of Man (Charles Darwin)
Mark the ones you've read in bold.
The 10 most harmful
The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels)
Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book)
The Kinsey Report (Alfred Kinsey)
Democracy and Education (John Dewey)
Das Kapital (Karl Marx)
The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan)
The Course of Positive Philosophy (Auguste Comte)
Beyond Good and Evil (Freidrich Nietzsche)
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (John Maynard Keynes)
Honorable Mentions
The Population Bomb (by Paul Ehrlich)
What Is To Be Done (V.I. Lenin)
Authoritarian Personality (Theodor Adorno )
On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (B.F. Skinner )
Reflections on Violence (Georges Sorel )
The Promise of American Life (Herbert Croly)
Origin of the Species (Charles Darwin)
Madness and Civilization (Michel Foucault)
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization (Sidney and Beatrice Webb)
Coming of Age in Samoa (Margaret Mead)
Unsafe at Any Speed (Ralph Nader)
Second Sex (Simone de Beauvoir)
Prison Notebooks (Antonio Gramsci)
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon)
Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud )
The Greening of America (Charles Reich)
The Limits to Growth (Club of Rome)
Descent of Man (Charles Darwin)