Mental Floss list of the 25 Most Influential Books of the Past 25 Years

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Appeared in the March/April 2009 issue of Mental Floss.

  2. 2.
    The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
    by Art Spiegelman
  4. 4.
    Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
    by Temple Grandin
  5. 5.
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
    by Barbara Ehrenreich
  6. 6.
  7. 7.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie
  8. 8.
    Middlesex: A Novel
    by Jeffrey Eugenides
  9. 9.
    The Alchemist
    by Paulo Coelho
  11. 11.
    A Perfect Spy
    by John le Carre
  12. 12.
    What is the What
    by Dave Eggers
  13. 13.
    On Writing
    by Stephen King
  14. 14.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami
  15. 15.
    The Known World
    by Edward P. Jones
  16. 16.
    Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
    by J.K. Rowling
  17. 17.
    How Proust Can Change Your Life
    by Alain de Botton
  18. 18.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe
  19. 19.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace
  20. 20.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan/ Heim, Michael Henry (TRN)/ Heim, Michael Henry Kundera
  21. 21.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  22. 22.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood
  24. 24.
    Eats, Shoots & Leaves
    by Lynne Truss
  25. 25.
    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
    by Malcolm Gladwell
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Created by R Strati on Apr 14, 2009.
 

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