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Physicist Stephen Hawking’s “Brief History of Time” reigned as “the most unread book of all time,” until recently. (EVERT ELZINGA / EPA)
The new champ? French economist Thomas Piketty: “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” is on every intellectual’s bookshelf, but on how many have the spines been broken? (JANERIK HENRIKSSON / AP)
