The 12 books that shaped science in the 20th century

Paul Dirac, Quantum Mechanics (1930)
Albert Einstein, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1902–09 (1930)
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Fractals (1977)
Linus Pauling, Nature of the Chemical Bond (1939)
Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead,
Principia Mathematica (1910–13, 3 vols.)
Cyril Smith, Search For Structure (1981)
John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)
Norbert Weiner, Cybernetics (1948)
R. B. Woodward and Roald Hoffmann, Conservation of Orbital Symmetry (1970)
Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity (1922)
Richard Feynman, QED (1985)
Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming (1968)