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books recommended by celebrities

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, with sources where we have them.

Aggregated across 24 people we track · 60 books ranked by how many on this list have publicly recommended each one.

most recommended books on this list

3 people
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
3 recommenders
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3 people
Just Kids
Patti Smith · 2010
3 recommenders
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3 people
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · 2001
3 recommenders
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3 people
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · 2016
3 recommenders
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3 people
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed · 2022
3 recommenders
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2 people
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles · 2019
2 recommenders
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2 people
American Pastoral
Philip Roth · 2005
2 recommenders
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2 people
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy and translated by Rosamund Bartlett · 2012
2 recommenders
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2 people
Ariel: The Restored Edition
Sylvia Plath · 2005
2 recommenders
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2 people
Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay · 2014
2 recommenders
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2 people
Becoming
Michelle Obama · 2018
2 recommenders
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2 people
Bossypants
Tina Fey · 2011
2 recommenders
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2 people
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett · 2016
2 recommenders
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2 people
Conversations with Friends: A Novel
Sally Rooney · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2002
2 recommenders
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2 people
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 2002
2 recommenders
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2 people
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2009
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
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen · 2010
2 recommenders
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2 people
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg · 2013
2 recommenders
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2 people
Little Women (Puffin in Bloom)
Louisa May Alcott · 2004
2 recommenders
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2 people
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
Rebecca: Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Daphne du Maurier · 2013
2 recommenders
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2 people
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Jodi Kantor · 2019
2 recommenders
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2 people
She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb · 1998
2 recommenders
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2 people
Sula
Toni Morrison · 2002
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition
Paulo Coelho · 2014
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Don Miguel Ruiz · 2001
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Library Book
Susan Orlean · 2018
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2011
2 recommenders
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2 people
THE NIX
Nathan Hill · 2016
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Eckhart Tolle · 2004
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide
Gary Zukav · 2012
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon · 2005
2 recommenders
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2 people
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
Morgan Parker · 2017
2 recommenders
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2 people
We Are the Weather
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2019
2 recommenders
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2 people
While I Was Gone
Sue Miller · 2000
2 recommenders
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2 people
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed · 2012
2 recommenders
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1 person
#GIRLBOSS
Sophia Amoruso · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
100 Boyfriends
Brontez Purnell · 2021
1 recommender
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1 person
11/22/63: A Novel
Stephen King · 2011
1 recommender
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1 person
1939: The Lost World of the Fair
David Gelernter · 1995
1 recommender
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1 person
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
and The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra · 2014
1 recommender
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1 person
A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
Laura Taylor Namey · 2023
1 recommender
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1 person
A Father First
Dwyane Wade · 2012
1 recommender
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1 person
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry · 1997
1 recommender
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1 person
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines · 1997
1 recommender
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1 person
A Little History of the World
E. H. Gombrich · 2005
1 recommender
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1 person
A Map of the World
Jane Hamilton · 1994
1 recommender
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1 person
A Meatloaf in Every Oven
Frank Bruni & Jennifer Steinhauer · 2017
1 recommender
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1 person
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey · 2005
1 recommender
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1 person
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle · 2006
1 recommender
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1 person
A New Way to Age: The Most Cutting-Edge Advances in Antiaging
Suzanne Somers · 2020
1 recommender
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1 person
A Path Appears
Nicholas D. Kristof · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
A Place for Us
Fatima Farheen Mirza · 2019
1 recommender
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1 person
A Return to Love
Marianne Williamson · 1996
1 recommender
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1 person
A Tale Of Love And Darkness
Amos Oz · 2005
1 recommender
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1 person
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens · 2003
1 recommender
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1 person
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes · 2021
1 recommender
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1 person
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
1 recommender
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