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March 09, 2009
Mental Floss's "25 Most Powerful Books of the Past 25 Years.
The March/April issue of Mental Floss has an article by Rosemary Ahern called "The 25 Most Influential Books of the Past 25 Years." I thought the list might be of interest to library-types. The magazine's blog only lists a few books from the list but here's the entire list. See what you think - and feel free to comment if you have other suggestions.
1. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
2. Maus, Art Spiegelman (1991)
3. Listening to Prozac, Peter D. Kramer (1993)
4. Thinking in Pictures, Temple Grandin (1995)
5. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
6. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
7. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie (1988)
8. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
9. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (1988)
10. The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, Allen Carr (1985) - Not available from U-M Library
11. A Perfect Spy, John le Carre (1986)
12. What is the What, Dave Eggers (2006) - Not available from U-M Library
13. On Writing, Stephen King (2000) - Not available from U-M Library
14. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1994)
15. The Known World, Edward P. Jones (2003)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling (1998)
17. How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain De Botton (1997)
18. The Bonfire of the Vanitites, Tom Wolfe (1987)
19. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace (1996)
20. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (1984)
21. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
22. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (1985)
23. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (2005)
24. Eats, Shoots, & Leaves, Lynne Truss (2003)
25. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
Posted by swortman at March 9, 2009 01:39 PM