curated list
best books everyone should read
The books that recur most often across the reading lists of the most-followed founders, scientists, podcasters, athletes, and writers we track. Aggregated across our launch-tier of notable readers — every recommendation linked to its primary source.
Aggregated across 78 people we track · 60 books ranked by how many on this list have publicly recommended each one.
most recommended books on this list
- 4 people
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Robert Iger · 2019
4 recommenders
- 3 people
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa · 2003
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
edited by Peter Kaufman · 2006
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Melinda French Gates · 2019
3 recommenders
- 2 people
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2025
2 recommenders
- 2 people
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib · 2022
2 recommenders
- 2 people
An American Marriage: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection)
Tayari Jones · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky · 2017
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty · 2014
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson · 2007
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond · 2016
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith · 2021
2 recommenders
- 2 people
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD · 2006
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell · 2008
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2016
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Great Gatsby: Original Text
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
Kim Stanley Robinson · 2020
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson · 2020
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant · 2021
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert · 2021
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker · 2017
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Yes!
Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini & Steve J. Martin · 2008
2 recommenders
- 1 person
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman · 2018
1 recommender
- 1 person
$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
Alex Hormozi · 2021
1 recommender
on this list
Elon Musk
Ray Dalio
Sam Altman
Reese Witherspoon
Malcolm Gladwell
Charlie Munger
Chelsea Handler
Barack Obama
Mark Cuban
Bill Gates
Steven Pinker
John Green
Tom Hanks
Donald Trump
Emma Watson
Tucker Carlson
Tony Robbins
Hillary Clinton
Brené Brown
Tim Ferriss
Peter Thiel
Patrick Collison
Joe Rogan
Steve Jobs
Stephen King
Oprah Winfrey
Neil Gaiman
Sam Harris
Naval Ravikant
Warren Buffett
Yuval Noah Harari
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Ben Shapiro
Bill Ackman
Bill Clinton
Bryan Johnson
Dave Ramsey
Demis Hassabis
Eric Schmidt
Eric Weinstein
Ezra Klein
Glenn Beck
James Altucher
James Clear
Jordan Peterson
Larry Page
Lex Fridman
Marc Andreessen
Margaret Atwood
Mark Zuckerberg
Paul Graham
Peter Attia
Ryan Holiday
Sarah Jessica Parker
Scott Galloway
Sheryl Sandberg
Dana Perino
Robert Greene
Bernie Sanders
Jocko Willink
Maria Popova
Mark Manson
Brian Chesky
Alex Hormozi
Stephen Colbert
Jensen Huang
Iman Gadzhi
Rhonda Patrick
Trevor Noah
Chris Hayes
Andrew Huberman
Ali Abdaal
Ann Patchett
Phil Jackson
Charlie Kirk
Hoda Kotb
Cal Newport
Candace Owens
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