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.

  1. 2.
    The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
    by Art Spiegelman

  2. 4.
    Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
    by Temple Grandin

  3. 5.
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
    by Barbara Ehrenreich

  4. 6.

  5. 7.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

  6. 8.
    Middlesex: A Novel
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

  7. 9.
    The Alchemist
    by Paulo Coelho

  8. 11.
    A Perfect Spy
    by John le Carre

  9. 12.
    What is the What
    by Dave Eggers

  10. 13.
    On Writing
    by Stephen King

  11. 14.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

  12. 15.
    The Known World
    by Edward P. Jones

  13. 16.
    Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
    by J.K. Rowling

  14. 17.
    How Proust Can Change Your Life
    by Alain de Botton

  15. 18.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe

  16. 19.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

  17. 20.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan/ Heim, Michael Henry (TRN)/ Heim, Michael Henry Kundera

  18. 21.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  19. 22.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

  20. 24.
    Eats, Shoots & Leaves
    by Lynne Truss

  21. 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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