Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield
Banana: The fate of the fruit that changed the world by Dan Koeppel
How William Shatner Changed the World by William Shatner
The Russian Chronicles: A Thousand Years That Changed the World by Orland Figes, Robin Milner-Gulland, and Lindsey A. Hughes
On the dot: The speck that changed the world by Alexander Humez
The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production—Toyota’s Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos
Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World by Irwin W. Sherman
How Christianity Changed the World by Alvin J. Schmidt
Thirty Years That Changed the World: The Book of Acts for Today by Michael Green
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester
Molecules That Changed the World by K. C. Nicolaou and Tamsyn Montagnon
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead and Richard C. Leone
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan
The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World by Stephen J. Nichols
Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World by Leslie Alan Horvitz
Books that Changed the World by Robert B. Downs
12 Books that Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg
Ticket to Ride: Inside the Beatles’ 1964 and 1965 Tours That Changed the World by Larry Kane
A Man Without Equal: Jesus, the Man Who Changed the World by Bill Bright
The Man Who Changed the World: The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev by Gail Sheehy
The Sisterhood: The True Story of the Women Who Changed the World by Marcia Cohen
The Iron Warship That Changed the World by Gare Thompson
Profiles in Faith: Inspirational Readings Based on Lives of People Who Changed the World by Harold J. Sala
Two Romantic Trios: The Story of Six Passionate People Who Changed the World of Music by Sheryl Macy
Great Adventures That Changed Our World by Reader’s Digest
Rumpus Rising: How an Online Magazine Run by a Terrible Euchre Player Changed the World by Andrew Altschul (just kidding)
The Girls of Summer: The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team and How It Changed the World by Jere Longman
The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World by Amir D. Aczel
Battles That Changed the World by William Weir
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Speeches That Changed the World by Andrew Young and Owen Collins
100 Dogs Who Changed Civilization: History’s Most Influential Canines by Sam Stall
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan
The Gun that Changed the World by Mikhail Kalashnikov, Elena Joly, and Andrew Brown
The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World by David Maraniss
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
The Book of Lasts: The Stories Behind the Endings That Changed the World by Ian Harrison and Gene Cernan
Notable Mentions in Other Media:
Nature: Dogs That Changed the World by Various Writers (Documentary)
Amazing Grace: 5 Hymns That Changed the World by Questar Video (Documentary)
How William Shatner Changed the World by William Shatner (Documentary)
Inventions That Changed The World (Poster series)
They Changed the World 100+ (Board game)
Music Is Love: 15 Tracks That Changed the World by Mojo Magazine (Compilation album)
The Machine That Changed the World (Documentary)
Fuzz: The Sound That Changed the World (Documentary)
Close But No Cigar:
Why we haven’t changed the world by Peter E Gillquist (Book)
Turning the Century: Personal and Organizational Strategies For Your Changed World by Robert A. Theobald (Book)
The World Has Changed (Song)
Living in a Changed World by Humbles (Audio CD)
Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids and Life in a Half-Changed World by Peggy Orenstein (Book)
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6 responses
This is incredible. I can’t wait to pick up the Shatner epic.
Awesome, but I wish you had copyright dates so we could know who wins!
(aside: I read and loved Kurlansky’s Cod before I knew that so many other things had also changed the world. Seriously can’t get enough of Kurlansky.)
May I also submit “He Almost Changed the World: The Life and Times of Thomas Riley Marshall”
It is the especially pathetic tale of Wilson’s VP, who almost became president.
The title of this list is kind of misleading. It’s a list of books about things that changed the world, or at least a list of books with “that changed the world” in their title. It’s not a list of books that actually changed the world (whether or not their title says so…).
gr8 resrch bro
I agree, the title is a bit misleading. Still some good books on there. Simon Winchester’s one of Geology is excellent.
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