>>>Jeez. Stephen Hawkings' "A brief History of Time" sold around 10 million copies.
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>>>I replied to Tamar, my mistake...the poll reported that Atlas was the 2nd most influential....my (big) mistake.
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>>>Having said that, the sale of over 1.5 million copies in the last 3 years, considering the size of the book and the content, is amazing.
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>>But look at some of the books on the list:
>>http://www.amazon.com/Library-Congress-Survey-Influential-Books/lm/133GLJVXVIBLN
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>>Interesting books some of them, but the most influential? Other than a couple (the 1st of course being one of them)I think not...
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>That list seems pretty biased towards titles Amazon thinks it can sell :)
>
>No "The Art of War"? No "The Prince"?

Does it differ from the Library of Congress' survey results?

Updated: Tamar provided more information on the survey and I don't think it differs:
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