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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 — with sources where we have them.

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
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3 people
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover · 2018
3 recommenders
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3 people
Klara and the Sun: A Novel
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
3 recommenders
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3 people
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa · 2003
3 recommenders
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3 people
Outlive
Peter Attia · 2023
3 recommenders
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3 people
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
edited by Peter Kaufman · 2006
3 recommenders
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3 people
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Melinda French Gates · 2019
3 recommenders
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3 people
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
3 recommenders
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2 people
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2025
2 recommenders
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2 people
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles · 2019
2 recommenders
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2 people
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib · 2022
2 recommenders
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2 people
An American Marriage: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection)
Tayari Jones · 2018
2 recommenders
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2 people
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear · 2018
2 recommenders
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2 people
Becoming
Michelle Obama · 2018
2 recommenders
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2 people
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman · 2018
2 recommenders
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2 people
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty · 2014
2 recommenders
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2 people
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson · 2007
2 recommenders
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2 people
Energy and Civilization: a History
Vaclav Smil · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond · 2016
2 recommenders
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2 people
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling · 2018
2 recommenders
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2 people
Grant
Ron Chernow · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond · 2005
2 recommenders
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2 people
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance · 2016
2 recommenders
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2 people
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith · 2021
2 recommenders
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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
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2 people
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD · 2006
2 recommenders
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2 people
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2018
2 recommenders
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2 people
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl · 2006
2 recommenders
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2 people
Moby Dick
Herman Melville · 2003
2 recommenders
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2 people
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer · 2011
2 recommenders
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2 people
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove · 1998
2 recommenders
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2 people
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell · 2008
2 recommenders
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2 people
Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ray Porter · 2021
2 recommenders
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2 people
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015
2 recommenders
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2 people
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson · 2015
2 recommenders
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2 people
Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
John Doerr · 2021
2 recommenders
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2 people
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson · 2011
2 recommenders
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2 people
String Theory
David Foster Wallace · 2016
2 recommenders
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2 people
Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2006
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2016
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Great Gatsby: Original Text
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles · 2021
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
Kim Stanley Robinson · 2020
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Power
Naomi Alderman · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Road to Character
David Brooks · 2015
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert · 2014
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson · 2020
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu · 2014
2 recommenders
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2 people
The War On The West
Douglas Murray · 2022
2 recommenders
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2 people
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant · 2021
2 recommenders
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2 people
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert · 2021
2 recommenders
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2 people
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
Yes!
Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini & Steve J. Martin · 2008
2 recommenders
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2 people
Yes!
Robert Cialdini · 2009
2 recommenders
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1 person
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman · 2018
1 recommender
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1 person
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Allum Bokhari · 2020
1 recommender
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1 person
$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
Alex Hormozi · 2021
1 recommender
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