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What the world’s most-followed billionaires, tech founders, podcasters, investors, and CEOs actually read. Each list aggregates books across the group, ranked by how many people on it have publicly recommended each title.
books recommended by book clubs
25 people · 933 books
The books most often picked by the world's most-followed book clubs — Reese's Book Club, Oprah's Book Club, Read with Jenna, Belletrist, and more. Aggregated across every book-club host in our index, ranked by how many of them have publicly recommended each title.
books recommended by billionaires
26 people · 870 books
The books most often recommended by the world's wealthiest people — Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Charlie Munger, Elon Musk, Ray Dalio, and other billionaires whose reading lists shape global business and philanthropy.
books recommended by tech founders
38 people · 858 books
What the founders of Stripe, Airbnb, Tesla, OpenAI, Spotify, Dropbox, Y Combinator, and other defining tech companies actually read — every recommendation linked to its source.
books recommended by podcasters
31 people · 936 books
Reading lists from the most-listened-to podcasters — Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss, Andrew Huberman, Jocko Willink, and dozens more. Aggregated across thousands of episodes.
books recommended by investors
19 people · 891 books
What the world's most successful investors actually read — from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger to Ray Dalio, Howard Marks, Naval Ravikant, and the modern generation of VCs.
books recommended by CEOs
26 people · 850 books
The reading lists of CEOs at Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Disney, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, and other companies that shape the global economy.
best books everyone should read
78 people · 936 books
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.
books recommended by celebrities
24 people · 629 books
What actors, musicians, athletes, and public figures actually read — Reese Witherspoon, Oprah, Emma Watson, Andrew Luck, Sarah Jessica Parker, and dozens more. Aggregated from public statements and book-club picks, every recommendation linked to its source.
books recommended by the New York Times
6 people · 107 books
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.
books recommended by NPR
3 people · 18 books
What NPR hosts and contributors recommend — from Krista Tippett's On Being to Terry Gross's Fresh Air to NPR's Books We Love editors. Drawn from interviews, podcasts, and public reading lists.
books recommended by US presidents
6 people · 371 books
The reading lists of US presidents past and present — Barack Obama's annual summer picks, George W. Bush's reading habits, Bill Clinton's recommendations, Jimmy Carter's published lists, and more.
books recommended by authors
30 people · 623 books
What working novelists, essayists, and non-fiction writers actually read — Stephen King, Ann Patchett, Margaret Atwood, Roxane Gay, John Green, Colson Whitehead, Zadie Smith, and dozens more. Aggregated from interviews, public lists, and tweets.
books recommended by scientists
17 people · 240 books
What working physicists, biologists, and researchers actually read — Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sabine Hossenfelder, Brian Greene, Sean Carroll, and dozens more. Drawn from interviews, podcasts, and academic citations.
books recommended by Nobel Prize winners
10 people · 316 books
Reading lists from Nobel laureates across literature, physics, economics, peace, and chemistry — Daniel Kahneman, Toni Morrison, Bob Dylan, Joseph Stiglitz, Kazuo Ishiguro, Olga Tokarczuk, Annie Ernaux, and others. The most cited honour our species has, applied to a reading list.
books recommended by comedians
15 people · 200 books
What stand-ups and comedy writers actually read — from Jerry Seinfeld and Tina Fey to Bill Burr, John Mulaney, Trevor Noah, and Jon Stewart. Drawn from podcasts, interviews, and public statements.
More lists coming soon. Each list is hand-curated from our 4,800-recommender index.