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books recommended by Nobel Prize winners

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.

Aggregated across 10 people we track · 60 books ranked by how many on this list have publicly recommended each one.

most recommended books on this list

2 people
Moby Dick
Herman Melville · 2003
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2 people
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Michael Bhaskar & Mustafa Suleyman · 2023
2 recommenders
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1 person
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2025
1 recommender
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1 person
A Different Way to Win
Jim Rooney · 2019
1 recommender
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1 person
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles · 2019
1 recommender
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1 person
A Grain of Wheat
Ngugi wa Thiong'o · 1994
1 recommender
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1 person
A House for Mr. Biswas
V. S. Naipaul · 2003
1 recommender
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1 person
A Marriage at Sea
Sophie Elmhirst · 2026
1 recommender
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1 person
A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (English and French Edition)
Arthur Rimbaud · 1961
1 recommender
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1 person
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens · 2003
1 recommender
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1 person
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln · 1992
1 recommender
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1 person
Abraham Lincoln
John Hay & John Nicolay · 1890
1 recommender
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1 person
Abundance: How We Build a Better Future
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson · 2025
1 recommender
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1 person
After the Fall
Ben Rhodes · 2021
1 recommender
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1 person
Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah · 2020
1 recommender
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1 person
Aftershocks
Nadia Owusu · 2021
1 recommender
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1 person
All Access: The Rock 'n' Roll Photography of Ken Regan
Ken Regan · 2011
1 recommender
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1 person
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · 1987
1 recommender
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1 person
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
1 recommender
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1 person
All the Sinners Bleed
S.A. Cosby · 2023
1 recommender
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1 person
American Prison
Shane Bauer · 2018
1 recommender
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1 person
American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson · 2019
1 recommender
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2013
1 recommender
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1 person
An American Marriage: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection)
Tayari Jones · 2018
1 recommender
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1 person
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume · 1998
1 recommender
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1 person
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong · 2022
1 recommender
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1 person
Anything Is Possible
Elizabeth Strout · 2017
1 recommender
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1 person
Arthur Ashe
Raymond Arsenault · 2018
1 recommender
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Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday · 2018
1 recommender
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1 person
At Night All Blood Is Black
David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis · 2020
1 recommender
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1 person
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed.)
Ayn Rand · 1999
1 recommender
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1 person
Audition: A Novel
Katie Kitamura · 2025
1 recommender
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1 person
Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor
Al Kooper · 2008
1 recommender
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1 person
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
Basketball
Shea Serrano · 2017
1 recommender
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1 person
Battling the Big Lie
Dan Pfeiffer · 2022
1 recommender
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1 person
Beautiful Country
Qian Julie Wang · 2021
1 recommender
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1 person
Beautiful Days
Zach Williams · 2024
1 recommender
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1 person
Becoming
Michelle Obama · 2018
1 recommender
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1 person
Beige Book
Federal Reserve Districts · 2014
1 recommender
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1 person
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
Billionaires and Stealth Politics
Benjamin I. Page · 2018
1 recommender
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1 person
Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson · 2022
1 recommender
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1 person
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1992
1 recommender
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1 person
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Steve Martin · 2007
1 recommender
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1 person
Bound for Glory
Woody Guthrie · 1983
1 recommender
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1 person
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson · 2020
1 recommender
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1 person
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller · 2022
1 recommender
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1 person
Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence
Paul E. Meehl · 2013
1 recommender
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1 person
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr · 2021
1 recommender
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1 person
Coach Wooden and Me
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · 2017
1 recommender
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1 person
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
Sir Ken Robinson PhD · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen · 2021
1 recommender
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1 person
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner · 2021
1 recommender
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1 person
Deacon King Kong
James McBride · 2020
1 recommender
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1 person
Dead and Alive
Zadie Smith · 2025
1 recommender
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1 person
Deep Blues: A Musical And Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Robert Palmer · 1982
1 recommender
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1 person
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton · 2022
1 recommender
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1 person
Dune
Frank Herbert · 2019
1 recommender
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1 person
Dying
Cory Taylor · 2016
1 recommender
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