curated list
books recommended by the New York Times
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.
Aggregated across 6 people we track · 60 books ranked by how many on this list have publicly recommended each one.
most recommended books on this list
- 1 person
A Black Women’s History of the United States
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross · 2021
1 recommender
- 1 person
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury · 2005
1 recommender
- 1 person
All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories
Edward P. Jones · 2006
1 recommender
- 1 person
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume · 1998
1 recommender
- 1 person
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang · 2021
1 recommender
- 1 person
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
Andrew Marantz · 2019
1 recommender
- 1 person
Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’
Zora Neale Hurston · 2019
1 recommender
- 1 person
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Aminatou Sow · 2020
1 recommender
- 1 person
Billionaires and Stealth Politics
Benjamin I. Page · 2018
1 recommender
- 1 person
Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull · 2014
1 recommender
- 1 person
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Dan Lyons · 2016
1 recommender
- 1 person
Drift Into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
Sidney Dekker · 2011
1 recommender
- 1 person
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Annie Lowrey · 2018
1 recommender
- 1 person
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
David Bornstein · 2007
1 recommender
- 1 person
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan · 2018
1 recommender
- 1 person
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell · 2019
1 recommender
- 1 person
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr. · 2017
1 recommender
- 1 person
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington · 2007
1 recommender
- 1 person
On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News
Matthew Pressman · 2018
1 recommender
- 1 person
Philanthrocapitalism
Matthew Bishop and Michael Green · 2008
1 recommender
- 1 person
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett · 2020
1 recommender
- 1 person
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Jodi Kantor · 2019
1 recommender
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