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

1. 1. ? And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts Drag me to re-order

2. 2. The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman Drag me to re-order

3. 3. Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self, Revised Edition by Peter D. Kramer Drag me to re-order

4. 4. Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin Drag me to re-order

5. 5. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Drag me to re-order

6. 6. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer Drag me to re-order

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

8. 8. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides Drag me to re-order

9. 9. The Alchemist (Plus) by Paulo Coelho Drag me to re-order

10. 10. The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method by Allen Carr Drag me to re-order

11. 11. A Perfect Spy by John le Carre Drag me to re-order

12. 12. What Is the What (Vintage) by Dave Eggers Drag me to re-order

13. 13. On Writing by Stephen King Drag me to re-order

14. 14. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami Drag me to re-order

15. 15. The Known World by Edward P. Jones Drag me to re-order

16. 16. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Drag me to re-order

17. 17. How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton Drag me to re-order

18. 18. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Drag me to re-order

19. 19. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Drag me to re-order

20. 20. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan/ Heim, Michael Henry (TRN)/ Heim, Michael Henry Kundera Drag me to re-order

21. 21. Beloved by Toni Morrison Drag me to re-order

22. 22. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood Drag me to re-order

23. 23. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt Drag me to re-order

24. 24. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss Drag me to re-order

25. 25. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Drag me to re-order