curated list
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
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Michael Bhaskar & Mustafa Suleyman · 2023
2 recommenders
- 1 person
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2025
1 recommender
- 1 person
A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (English and French Edition)
Arthur Rimbaud · 1961
1 recommender
- 1 person
Abundance: How We Build a Better Future
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson · 2025
1 recommender
- 1 person
All Access: The Rock 'n' Roll Photography of Ken Regan
Ken Regan · 2011
1 recommender
- 1 person
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · 1987
1 recommender
- 1 person
An American Marriage: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection)
Tayari Jones · 2018
1 recommender
- 1 person
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume · 1998
1 recommender
- 1 person
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong · 2022
1 recommender
- 1 person
At Night All Blood Is Black
David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis · 2020
1 recommender
- 1 person
Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor
Al Kooper · 2008
1 recommender
- 1 person
Billionaires and Stealth Politics
Benjamin I. Page · 2018
1 recommender
- 1 person
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller · 2022
1 recommender
- 1 person
Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence
Paul E. Meehl · 2013
1 recommender
- 1 person
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
Sir Ken Robinson PhD · 2015
1 recommender
- 1 person
Deep Blues: A Musical And Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Robert Palmer · 1982
1 recommender
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