In this year’s list of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, there are good number of them that have written a book. Here’s a partial list of book authors on the Time 100 list:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah
Anat Admati, co-author of The Bankers’ New Clothes
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, author of Walking with Jesus: A Way Forward for the Church
Beyoncé, co-author of Soul Survivors: The Official Autobiography of Destiny’s Child
Emmanuelle Charpentier, co-author of CRISPR: Methods and Protocols
Hillary Clinton, author of Hard Choices
Misty Copeland, author of Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
Ina Garten, author of the bestselling Barefoot Contessa cookbooks
Katharine Hayhoe, co-author of A Climate of Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions
Reid Hoffman, author of The Start-Up of You
Kim Kardashian West, author of Kim Kardashian Selfish
Arvind Kejriwal, author of Swaraj
John Kerry, author of A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America
Charles Koch, author of The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World’s Largest Private Company
Jenji Kohan, co-author of Orange Is the New Black Presents: The Cookbook
Marie Kondo, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Robert Lanza, author of Rethinking Immortality
Herbert Raymond McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty
Danny Meyer, author of Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Haruki Murakami, author of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, author of Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria
Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Robert Redford, author of The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time
Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Rudolph Tanzi, co-author of Super Brain
Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch
Binyavanga Wainaina, author of One Day I Will Write About This Place
Kanye West, co-author of Kanye West Presents Thank You and You’re Welcome
Pharrell Williams, author of Pharrell: Places and Spaces I’ve Been
Serena Williams, author of My Life: Queen of the Court
Janet Yellen, co-author of The Fabulous Decade: Macroeconomic Lessons from the 1990s
Malala Yousafzai, author of I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
