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books recommended by the New York Times

What New York Times opinion writers, columnists, and book reviewers actually read — David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman, Ezra Klein, Ross Douthat, Bret Stephens, Frank Bruni, and others. Aggregated from columns, podcasts, and public reading lists.

Aggregated across 6 people we track · 60 books ranked by how many on this list have publicly recommended each one.

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  1. A Black Women’s History of the United States
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    A Black Women’s History of the United States

    Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross · 2021

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  2. A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
    1 person

    A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

    Ray Bradbury · 2005

    1 recommender

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  3. A World after Liberalism
    1 person

    A World after Liberalism

    Matthew Rose · 2022

    1 recommender

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  4. All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories
    1 person

    All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories

    Edward P. Jones · 2006

    1 recommender

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  5. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    1 person

    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

    David Hume · 1998

    1 recommender

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  6. An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
    1 person

    An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

    Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang · 2021

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  7. Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
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    Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation

    Andrew Marantz · 2019

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  8. Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed.)
    1 person

    Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed.)

    Ayn Rand · 1999

    1 recommender

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  9. Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’
    1 person

    Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’

    Zora Neale Hurston · 2019

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  10. Becoming Faulkner
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    Becoming Faulkner

    Philip Weinstein · 2009

    1 recommender

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  11. Beige Book
    1 person

    Beige Book

    Federal Reserve Districts · 2014

    1 recommender

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  12. Bewilderment: A Novel
    1 person

    Bewilderment: A Novel

    Richard Powers · 2021

    1 recommender

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  13. Beyond Ideology
    1 person

    Beyond Ideology

    Frances E. Lee · 2009

    1 recommender

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  14. Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
    1 person

    Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

    Aminatou Sow · 2020

    1 recommender

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  15. Billionaires and Stealth Politics
    1 person

    Billionaires and Stealth Politics

    Benjamin I. Page · 2018

    1 recommender

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  16. Black Reconstruction in America
    1 person

    Black Reconstruction in America

    W.E.B. Du Bois · 1935

    1 recommender

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  17. Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop
    1 person

    Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

    Lee Drutman · 2020

    1 recommender

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  18. Children of Ruin
    1 person

    Children of Ruin

    Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2019

    1 recommender

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  19. Children of Time
    1 person

    Children of Time

    Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015

    1 recommender

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  20. Consilience
    1 person

    Consilience

    Edward Osborne Wilson · 1999

    1 recommender

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  21. Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
    1 person

    Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

    Ed Catmull · 2014

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  22. Descartes' Error
    1 person

    Descartes' Error

    Antonio Damasio · 1995

    1 recommender

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  23. DisneyWar
    1 person

    DisneyWar

    James B. Stewart · 2005

    1 recommender

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  24. Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
    1 person

    Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

    Dan Lyons · 2016

    1 recommender

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  25. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
    1 person

    Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

    Kate Manne · 2017

    1 recommender

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  26. Drift Into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
    1 person

    Drift Into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

    Sidney Dekker · 2011

    1 recommender

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  27. Dune
    1 person

    Dune

    Frank Herbert · 2019

    1 recommender

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  28. Essays in Economics
    1 person

    Essays in Economics

    James Tobin · 1971

    1 recommender

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  29. Essays in Persuasion
    1 person

    Essays in Persuasion

    John Maynard Keynes · 1963

    1 recommender

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  30. Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
    1 person

    Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World

    Annie Lowrey · 2018

    1 recommender

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  31. How the War Was Won
    1 person

    How the War Was Won

    Phillips Payson O'Brien · 2015

    1 recommender

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  32. How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
    1 person

    How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition

    David Bornstein · 2007

    1 recommender

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  33. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
    1 person

    How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

    Michael Pollan · 2018

    1 recommender

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  34. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
    1 person

    How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

    Jenny Odell · 2019

    1 recommender

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  35. Juliet Takes a Breath
    1 person

    Juliet Takes a Breath

    Gabby Rivera · 2016

    1 recommender

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  36. Klara and the Sun: A Novel
    1 person

    Klara and the Sun: A Novel

    Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

    1 recommender

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  37. Ledger
    1 person

    Ledger

    Jane Hirshfield · 2020

    1 recommender

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  38. Let the People Pick the President
    1 person

    Let the People Pick the President

    Jesse Wegman · 2020

    1 recommender

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  39. Lincoln in the Bardo
    1 person

    Lincoln in the Bardo

    George Saunders · 2017

    1 recommender

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  40. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
    1 person

    Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

    James Forman Jr. · 2017

    1 recommender

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  41. Markings
    1 person

    Markings

    Dag Hammarskjold · 2006

    1 recommender

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  42. Matrix: A Novel
    1 person

    Matrix: A Novel

    Lauren Groff · 2021

    1 recommender

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  43. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    1 person

    Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

    Harriet A. Washington · 2007

    1 recommender

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  44. Morality
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    Morality

    Jonathan Sacks · 2020

    1 recommender

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  45. No Bad Kids
    1 person

    No Bad Kids

    Janet Lansbury · 2014

    1 recommender

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  46. Nothing to See Here
    1 person

    Nothing to See Here

    Kevin Wilson · 2019

    1 recommender

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  47. On Deaf Ears
    1 person

    On Deaf Ears

    George C. Edwards III · 2003

    1 recommender

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  48. On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News
    1 person

    On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News

    Matthew Pressman · 2018

    1 recommender

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  49. Overreach
    1 person

    Overreach

    George C. Edwards III · 2012

    1 recommender

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  50. Permanent Record
    1 person

    Permanent Record

    Edward Snowden · 2019

    1 recommender

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  51. Philanthrocapitalism
    1 person

    Philanthrocapitalism

    Matthew Bishop and Michael Green · 2008

    1 recommender

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  52. Predicting the Presidency
    1 person

    Predicting the Presidency

    George C. Edwards III · 2016

    1 recommender

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  53. Rough Draft: A Memoir
    1 person

    Rough Draft: A Memoir

    Katy Tur · 2022

    1 recommender

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  54. Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
    1 person

    Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

    Lisa Feldman Barrett · 2020

    1 recommender

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  55. She Said
    1 person

    She Said

    Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey · 2019

    1 recommender

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  56. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
    1 person

    She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

    Jodi Kantor · 2019

    1 recommender

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  57. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
    1 person

    Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    Joan Didion · 2008

    1 recommender

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  58. Smart World
    1 person

    Smart World

    Richard Ogle · 2007

    1 recommender

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  59. Something Deeply Hidden
    1 person

    Something Deeply Hidden

    Sean Carroll · 2019

    1 recommender

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  60. Stealth Democracy
    1 person

    Stealth Democracy

    John R. Hibbing · 2002

    1 recommender

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