What books and other written works have had major impact on this world?

[Urban Ranger]

Off the top of my head:

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Galileo's A Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and The Capital
The bible, the Koran, and similar holy books.

[Asher]

Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[Propaganda]

Anatoliy Golitsyn's "New Lies for Old" and "The Perestroika Deception."

And oh yeah, The Bible.

[Shi Huangdi]

Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Uncle Tom's Cabin by someone I forget, lots of the stuff by enlightenment philospohers...

[Dis]

Koran, bible

guess those were obvious choices. they were already mentioned.

Don't forget nearly all scientific work by Lenardo Da Vinci, Newton, Einstein etc.

[Richelieu]

Hobbes - Leviathan
Rousseau - Le contrat social

[Ari Rahikkala]

The GNU General Public License

[Az]

The US declaration of Independence.
Various confucian works.

that is, of course, added to the texts already mentioned.

[Eli]

Newton's Principia Mathematica

[CerberusIV]

Mein Kampf

(apologies, but someone had to say it)

[MRT144]

one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

[Panag]

hi ,

the Talmud

have a nice day

[Solly]

George Orwell's 1984.

[JohnT]

"Uncle Tom's Cabin by someone I forget"

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I'm gonna go with Augustine's Confessions and City of God. Also with Luther's 95 theses, as well as Aquinas' Summa Theologica.

And let's not forget the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution!

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Asher
Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

The Magna Carta
Plato - Symposium and The Republic
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
More - Utopia
John Nash's Undergrad Paper/Thesis (whatever it was called )
Anything by Shakespeare (if only because we have to study them )
The Treaty of Versailles