Twelve Books That Changed the World

Twelve Books That Changed the World is a book by Melvyn Bragg, published in 2006.

The twelve books listed were:

Principia Mathematica (1687) — Isaac Newton
Married Love (1918) — Marie Stopes
Magna Carta (1215)
Book of Rules of Association Football (1863)
On the Origin of Species (1859) — Charles Darwin
On the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1789) — William Wilberforce in Parliament, immediately printed in several versions
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) — Mary Wollstonecraft
Experimental Researches in Electricity (three volumes, 1839, 1844, 1855) by Michael Faraday
Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine (1769) — Richard Arkwright
The King James Bible (1611) — William Tyndale and 54 scholars appointed by the king
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) — Adam Smith
The First Folio (1623) — William Shakespeare