A survey commissioned by The Folio Society also placed the Koran within the top ten.
Science also features heavily alongside religion, with Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species' and Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' taking the number two and three slots respectively.
Fiction books also made the top ten, thanks to George Orwell's '1984' and 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee.
Tom Walker, the Folio Society's editorial director, said he was surprised to find that there was "relatively little on economics despite the financial climate and only two, overtly political, fiction titles in the list".
2,000 people were asked via a YouGov study to rank the three tomes they think have had the most influence on society from an original list of 30.
The top ten results are as follows:
1. The Bible (37%)
2. The Origin Of Species, Charles Darwin (35%)
3. A Brief History Of Time, Stephen Hawking (17%)
4. Relativity, Albert Einstein (15%)
5. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (14%)
6. Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton (12%)
7. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee (10%)
8. The Koran (9%)
9. The Wealth Of Nations, Adam Smith (7%)
10. The Double Helix, James Watson (6%)