50 Most Influential Books of the last 50 (or so) Years

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  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
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    Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution
    by M.D. Robert C. Atkins
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    The God Delusion
    by Richard Dawkins
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    The Closing of the American Mind

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    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown
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    Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
    by Dee Brown
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    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
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    Syntactic Structures (2nd Edition)
    by Noam Chomsky
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    Guns, Germs, and Steel
    by Jared Diamond
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    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan
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    Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
    by Milton Friedman
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    Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
    by Daniel Goleman
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    In the Shadow of Man
    by Jane Goodall
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    Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
    by John Gary
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    Roots: The Saga of an American Family
    by Alex Haley
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    A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes
    by Stephen Hawking
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    Catch-22 (1961)
    by Joseph Heller
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    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    by Thomas S. Kuhn
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    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
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    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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    After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition
    by Alasdair MacIntyre
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    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
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    Cities of Salt
    by Abdelrahman Munif
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    The 9/11 Commission Report

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    the Emporer's New Mind

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    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand
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    A Theory of Justice

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    Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)
    by J. K. Rowling
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    The Satanic Verses: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie
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    Cosmos
    by Carl Sagan
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    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    by Eric Schlosser
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    Resources, Values and Development

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    Beyond Freedom & Dignity
    by B. F. Skinner
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    The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
    by Benjamin Spock
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    Sociobiology

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    Autobiography of Malcom X

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    Banker to the Poor

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Created by VeganMedusa on Apr 17, 2011.
 

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