- And The Band Played On - Randy Shilts
- Maus - Art Spiegelman
- Listening To Prozac - Peter D. Kramer
- Thinking In Pictures - Temple Grandin
- Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
- Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
- The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
- Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- The Easy Way To Stop Smoking - Allen Carr
- A Perfect Spy - John le Carre
- What Is The What - Dave Eggers
- On Writing - Stephen King
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- The Known World - Edward P. Jones
- Harry Potter and The Sorceror's (Philosopher's) Stone - J.K. Rowling
- How Proust Can Change Your Life - Alain de Botton
- The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
- Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- Beloved - Toni Morrison
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss
- The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
I guess I'm also sort of wondering what is meant by "influential." Influential on what? Popular culture? Academics? Other writers? I'm not sure. Some that I'm surprised are not on the list include Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan), Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay (Michael Chabon), Watchmen (Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons), The Giver (Lois Lowry), The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)...I could keep going. I would replace several of the books on the list above with these.
How many on the list have you guys read? Do you agree with the list? Are there others you would have included or any you'd remove? Remember, they have to have been published in the last 25 years, so from 1984 on!
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