SuperScholar's 50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so)Years

1. 1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Drag me to re-order

2. 2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Drag me to re-order

3. 3. Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Revised Edition by Robert C. Atkins Drag me to re-order

4. 4. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Drag me to re-order

5. 5. The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom Drag me to re-order

6. 6. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Drag me to re-order

7. 7. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown Drag me to re-order

8. 8. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Drag me to re-order

9. 9. Syntactic Structures (2nd Edition) by Noam Chomsky Drag me to re-order

10. 10. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey Drag me to re-order

11. 11. Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe Drag me to re-order

12. 12. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Drag me to re-order

13. 13. The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Drag me to re-order

14. 14. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl Drag me to re-order

15. 15. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Drag me to re-order

16. 16. Capitalism and Freedom (Phoenix Books) by Milton Friedman Drag me to re-order

17. 17. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman Drag me to re-order

18. 18. In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall Drag me to re-order

19. 19. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships by John Gray Drag me to re-order

20. 20. Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley Drag me to re-order

21. 21. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Drag me to re-order

22. 22. Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Heller Drag me to re-order

23. 23. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Drag me to re-order

24. 24. When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner Drag me to re-order

25. 25. To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary Edition by Harper Lee Drag me to re-order

26. 26. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Drag me to re-order

27. 27. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition by Alasdair MacIntyre Drag me to re-order

28. 28. Beloved (Everyman's Library) by Toni Morrison Drag me to re-order

29. 29. Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif Drag me to re-order

30. 30. ? Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader Drag me to re-order

31. 31. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Indexed Hardcover, Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Drag me to re-order

32. 32. The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose Drag me to re-order

33. 33. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Drag me to re-order

34. 34. A Theory of Justice: Original Edition by John Rawls Drag me to re-order

35. 35. Harry Potter Hardcover Boxed Set: Books #1-7 by J. K. Rowling Drag me to re-order

36. 36. The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie Drag me to re-order

37. 37. Cosmos by Carl Sagan Drag me to re-order

38. 38. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Drag me to re-order

39. 39. Resources, Values, and Development: Expanded Edition by Professor Amartya Sen Drag me to re-order

40. 40. Beyond Freedom & Dignity by B. F. Skinner Drag me to re-order

41. 41. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One) by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Drag me to re-order

42. 42. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto Drag me to re-order

43. 43. Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 8th Edition by Benjamin Spock Drag me to re-order

44. 44. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Drag me to re-order

45. 45. Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Mao Tse-Tung Drag me to re-order

46. 46. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren Drag me to re-order

47. 47. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson Drag me to re-order

48. 48. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Edward O. Wilson Drag me to re-order

49. 49. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X Drag me to re-order

50. 50. Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus Drag me to re-order