This book is so pathetic it's almost a waste of time reviewing it. I started out getting mad at the author and his ignorant views but ended up just finding the whole thing laughably sad.

I can sum up all of his "arguments" against the books thusly:
All of the authors have a different view of the world, God and religion than he does, therefore they must be atheist not matter what they say to the contrary. All atheists are evil therefor they and their ideas are evil, as are those who might agree with them. Oh, and also, liberals tend to be atheists and are also therefore evil.

It would be one thing if he gave concrete arguments for his views or actually discussed the books in a serious manner vs. just making fun of them or the authors (including their physical attributes, though I don't know what one authors being bald has to do with anything) but that is pretty much all he does. Well, that and preach his own view on religion and society.
A complete waste of time.

Interesting commentary about books I haven't read yet. Kind of dry and, sad to say, boring.

Sometimes, books everyone pays attention to wind up causing as many problems as they are meant to correct. Author Benjamin Wiker offers a list of 10 that should be read, he believes -- so that the ideas in them can be recognized as folly and avoided. His 2008 10 Books That Screwed up the World offers a brief sketch of the offenders and what's come about as people accepted their messages and thoughts uncritically.

For example, Machiavelli's The Prince suggested adapting evil's methods to achieve good's ends, Wiker says. That's not so bad at low levels, but follow the logic to the end and you get concentration camps, gulags and Mao Zedong's deadly Cultural Revolution. All of those are bad. Other books on his list also offered ideas that may have been relatively beneficial in the small doses or on the small scales which concerned their authors, but which when carried forward to their conclusions can result in sometimes monstrous evils. And of course some books, like Karl Marx and Friederich Engels' The Manifesto of the Communist Party, wind up wrong-headed because they start out that way.

Again, Wiker doesn't suggest these books should be banned or even that they should be avoided. Reading them is the only way to know what's in them and counter their harmful influence. His tone isn't always as temperate as you might wish for a scholarly evaluation, but he's not doing one of those as much as he is a highbrow polemic. Whether or not that makes 10 Books That Screwed up the World a candidate for someone else's list of such books is up to the reader to determine.

Original available here.

Audio book. Completely disappointed. I was hoping for a critical review or explanation if how these books influenced morality or history. what it is instead is an attack on atheism (without god there is no morality, apparently). The author missed the blatant sarcasm evident to high schoolers when reading Machiavelli's The Prince, for one thing.
Didn't finish, not worth it for the blatant proselytising.