Twenty books that changed the world. Which is the most important?

Charles Darwin is vying with Immanuel Kant and Plato in a poll to decide on the most influential scholarly book of all time

Mary Wollstonecraft, Stephen Hawking and Charles Darwin are jostling for the top spot on a line-up of the top 20 academic books that changed the world.

Put together by a panel of expert academic booksellers, librarians and publishers from a list of 200 titles submitted by UK publishers, the top 20 ranges from Wollstonecraft's 1792 feminist manifesto A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, to Hawking's exploration of the universe, A Brief History of Time, and Darwin's transformative laying out of his theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species.