The Times Literary Supplement's 100 Most Influential Books Since the War (1940)

The LTS suggested a few updates to their list originally prepared in 1995. As the editors point out, it does have a certain philosophical/a historical slant. One could quibble with any particular entry but on the whole this list is difficult to improve upon if interpretations and understandings of western culture is the focus.

The reader will appreciate that the editors have not ranked the books but grouped them alphabetically by decade.

	Books Published in the 1940s
	Simone de Beauvoir's The second sex
	Marc Bloch's The Historian's Craft
	Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean
	James Burnham's The managerial revolution
	Camus' The myth of Sisyphus
	Camus's The stranger
	Collingwood's The idea of history
	Erich Fromm's Escape from freedom
	M.Horkheimer & T.W. Adorno: Dialectic of enlightenment
	Karl Jaspers's The Perennial Scope of Philosophy
	Arthur Koestler's Darkness at noon
	Andre Malraux's Man's fate
	Franz Neumann's Behemoth
	George Orwell's Animal farm
	George Orwell's 1984
	Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation
	Karl Popper's The Open Society
	Paul Samuelson's Economics
	Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism is a humanism
	Schumpeter's Capitalism, socialism & democracy

Look for more recommendations to be added from other decades, 1950s to 1990s, on the best available editions of these classic works and secondary materials.