Mental Floss Top 25
Or at least what they've called the most influential of the last 25 years. another list to pour over! Italicized i've read and bold i own but haven't gotten too yet.
- And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts- hmm, i've seen the movie?
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Listening to Prozac by Peter D Kramer
- Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin
- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr
- A Perfect Spy by John le Carre
- What is the What by Dave Eggers
- On Writing by Stephen King
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- The Known World by Edward P Jones
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
- How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
- Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood -again, i've seen the movie....
- Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynn Truss
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Interesting list, thanks for posting it to your blog! I've read 8 titles from the list, so I have miles to go...
ReplyDeleteHmmm...it is an interesting list. I've only read one, however: On Writing, and the only other one that really strikes my fancy is Wind Up Bird Chronicle. I've enjoyed Murakami's short stories and the one novel, After Dark, that I've read.
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