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
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