Mental Floss' 25 Most Influential Books of the Past 25 Years [2009]

Historical Literary

Missing: * Peter D. Kramer (3) * Edwin P. Jones (15) * Alain de Botton (17) * Stephen J. Dubner (23

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15

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Randy Shilts

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14

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Art Spiegelman

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Temple Grandin

Animal Expert

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

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Barbara Ehrenreich

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100% (1 of 1 votes)

22

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Jon Krakauer

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Salman Rushdie

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21

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Jeffrey Eugenides

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20

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Paulo Coelho

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Allen Carr

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17

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John Le Carre

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Dave Eggers

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100% (1 of 1 votes)

9

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Stephen King

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44.65% (121 of 271 votes)

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Haruki Murakami

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J.K. Rowling

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58.33% (7 of 12 votes)

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Tom Wolfe

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David Foster Wallace

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Milan Kundera

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Toni Morrison

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5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

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Margaret Atwood

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Steven Levitt

Economist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

19

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Lynne Truss

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5

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Malcolm Gladwell

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)