Lists of Bests: Mental Floss list of the 25 Most Influential Books of the Past 25 Years http://www.listsofbests.com/list/64266 Appeared in the March/April 2009 issue of Mental Floss. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:26:23 GMT en-us 0 50 25 0 0 And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2964570 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Randy Shilts</div> The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18429 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18429"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679406417.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464684_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Art Spiegelman</div> Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self, Revised Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2955 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2955"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140266712.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V62369123_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter D. Kramer</div> Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/427264 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/427264"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307275655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Temple Grandin</div> Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3121984 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Ehrenreich</div> Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10354 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10354"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385494785.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div> The Satanic Verses: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3864354 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3864354"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5148EfoguRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Middlesex: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8458 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8458"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374199698.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Eugenides</div> The Alchemist (Plus) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1014510"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061122416.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paulo Coelho</div> The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29349 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29349"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1402718616.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allen Carr</div> A Perfect Spy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92730 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92730"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743457927.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John le Carre</div> What Is the What (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2769605 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> On Writing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21457 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21457"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743455967.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen King</div> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679775439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> The Known World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341251 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341251"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061159174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward P. Jones</div> Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2107526 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.K. Rowling</div> How Proust Can Change Your Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4546205 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alain de Botton</div> The Bonfire of the Vanities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8405 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8405"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374115370.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> Infinite Jest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2146934 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2146934"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316066524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> The Unbearable Lightness of Being http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5419829 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5419829"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YxcL5SttL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milan/ Heim, Michael Henry (TRN)/ Heim, Michael Henry Kundera</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2151593 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038549081X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1272452"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061234001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven D. Levitt</div> Eats, Shoots & Leaves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/265678 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynne Truss</div> The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6975"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316346624.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Gladwell</div>