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
About John Kremer
John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- John Kremer on Book Marketing.