Each of the 100 books in chosen has played a critical role in the development of book in all their farms and with all that they bring: literacy, numeracy, technological progress and the expansion of scientific knowledge, religion, political theory, and more.

In the beginning -- Eastern approaches -- The great classics -- Medieval worlds & the book -- Light from the East -- Wheels of change -- A dangerous invention -- Printing & the Enlightenment -- Print & steam -- The book in the turbulent 20th century -- Digitization & the future of the book.