Book Recommendations
Thought Leaders
766 thought leaders — explore their book recommendations and reading lists.
A.J. Jacobs
Aaliyah Readss
Aamir Khan
Aaron Doughty
Aaron Gleeman
Aaron Levie
Aaron Nagler
Abraham Mutai
Adam Fisher
Adam Gazzaley
Adam Grant
Adam Neely
Adam Robinson
Adam Savage
Adam Sessler
Adam Tooze
Al Gore
Alain de Botton
Alan Kay
Alanis Morissette
Alastair Humphreys
Albert Mohler
Alex Blumberg
Alex Honnold
Alex Hormozi
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexis Ohanian
Alfred Lin
Ali Abdaal
Alice Little
Alice Walker
Alicia Keys
Alistair Begg
Alton Brown
Amanda Palmer
Amelia Boone
Amy Tan
Amy Winehouse
Ana Navarro
Anderson Cooper
Andrew Chen
Andrew Klavan
Andrew Ng
Andrew Wilkinson
Andrew Wilkow
Andrew Yang
Andrew Zimmern
Andy Cohen
Andy Frisella
Andy Greenwald
Andy Puddicombe
Andy Stanley
Aniela Gregorek
Ankur Warikoo
Ann Miura-Ko
Ann Patchett
Anna Akana
Anna Kendrick
Anna Khachiyan
Anne Lamott
Anníe Mist Þórisdóttir
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Pompliano
Anthony Scaramucci
Ariana Grande
Arianna Huffington
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Art De Vany
Asha Rangappa
Ashton Kutcher
Astro Teller
Aubrey Marcus
Aubrey Plaza
Austen Allred
Ava DuVernay
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
B.J. Novak
BJ Fogg
Balaji Srinivasan
Barack Obama
Barbara Corcoran
Barry Ritholtz
Barry Silbert
Bear Grylls
Ben Carlson
Ben Greenfield
Ben Horowitz
Ben Sasse
Ben Shapiro
Ben Silbermann
Ben Stiller
Ben Thompson
Bernie Sanders
Big Sean
Bill Ackman
Bill Clinton
Bill Gates
Bill Gurley
Bill Maher
Bill Miller
Bill Nye
Bill Rasmussen
Biz Stone
Blake Mycoskie
Blake Randall
Blake Scholl
Bob Dylan
Bob Iger
Bob Metcalfe
Bob Proctor
Bozoma Saint John
Brad Delong
Brad Feld
Brad Thor
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Stanton
Brendan Moynihan
Brendan Schaub
Brené Brown
Bret Easton Ellis
Brian Armstrong
Brian Chesky
Brian Cox
Brian Dean
Brian Grazer
Brian Koppelman
Brian MacKenzie
Brian Tracy
Brianne Kimmel
Brit Marling
Bryan Callen
Bryan Johnson
Cal Fussman
Cameron Winklevoss
Carl Icahn
Carlos Santana
Carlos Slim
Caroline Paul
Carrie Hope Fletcher
Casey Neistat
Caterina Fake
Cathie Wood
Celeste Ng
Chamath Palihapitiya
Changpeng Zhao
Charles Koch
Charles Poliquin
Charlie Munger
Charlize Theron
Chase Jarvis
Chelsea Handler
Cheryl Strayed
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chip Conley
Chloë Grace Moretz
Chris Anderson
Chris Dixon
Chris Do
Chris Evans
Chris Fussell
Chris Hadfield
Chris Hayes
Chris Sacca
Chris Young
Chrissy Teigen
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Paolini
Christopher Sommer
Cindy Eckert
Corey Wayne
Cory Booker
Cory Doctorow
Courtland Allen
Courtney Milan
Craig Groeschel
Craig Newmark
DJ Vlad
Dan Ariely
Dan Barreiro
Dan Carlin
Dan Engle
Dan Gable
Dan Harris
Dan Heisman
Dan Savage
Dana Perino
Daniel Ek
Daniel Gross
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Pink
Danielle Teller
Danny Miranda
Darren Aronofsky
Dave Camarillo
Dave Chappelle
Dave Elitch
Dave Ramsey
Dave Rubin
David Allen
David Blaine
David Brooks
David Copperfield
David Deutsch
David Friedberg
David Frum
David Heinemeier Hansson
David Lynch
David Sabatini
David Sacks
David Sedaris
Daymond John
DeRay Mckesson
Debbie Millman
Deborah Harkness
Debra Akins
Deepak Chopra
Demis Hassabis
Dennis Prager
Derek Sivers
Derren Brown
Diana Gabaldon
Diane Ravitch
Diane Rehm
Dick Costolo
Diddy
Dita Von Teese
Dominic D'Agostino
Don Cheadle
Don Winslow
Donald Glover
Donald Knuth
Donald Miller
Donald Trump
Donalyn Miller
Dorian Yates
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doug McMillon
Douglas Murray
Dr. Andrew Weil
Dr. Gabor Maté
Dr. Martin Gibala
Dr. Phil Zimbardo
Drew Houston
Duncan Trussell
Dustin Moskovitz
Dwayne Johnson
Ed Catmull
Ed Cooke
Ed Latimore
Ed Sheeran
Ed Zschau
Edgar Wright
Edward Norton
Elad Gil
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Warren
Ellen DeGeneres
Elliott Hulse
Elon Musk
Emilia Clarke
Emily Ratajkowski
Emma Stone
Emma Watson
Eric Ripert
Eric Schmidt
Eric Weinstein
Ernest Hemingway
Esther Dyson
Esther Perel
Ev Williams
Evan Goldberg
Evan Spiegel
Ezra Klein
Gabby Reece
Garry Kasparov
Garry Tan
Gary Keller
Gary Vaynerchuk
Geoff Ralston
Geoff Ramsey
George Bush
George R. R. Martin
George Raveling
Glen Weldon
Glenn Beck
Gloria Steinem
Graham Duncan
Grant Cardone
Greg McKeown
Greg Norman
Gretchen Rubin
Guillermo del Toro
Guy Kawasaki
J. Cole
J.K. Rowling
Jack Canfield
Jack Dorsey
Jack Edwards
Jack Kornfield
Jack Ma
Jacqueline Novogratz
James Altucher
James Cameron
James Clear
James Dashner
James Fadiman
Jamie Dimon
Jamie Foxx
Jane McGonigal
Jared Leto
Jason Calacanis
Jason Ferruggia
Jason Fried
Jason Khalipa
Jason Nemer
Jason Silva
Jay Shetty
Jay-Z
Jaysen Headley
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Dean
Jeff Weiner
Jen Rubio
Jen Sincero
Jen Wilkin
Jenn Im
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Weiner
Jenny Lawson
Jensen Huang
Jeremy Clarkson
Jerrod Carmichael
Jerry Colonna
Jerzy Gregorek
Jesse Williams
Jia Tolentino
Jim Carrey
Jim Collins
Jim Cramer
Jim Kwik
Jim Lee
Jimmy Chin
Jimmy Fallon
Jocko Willink
Jodi Picoult
Jodie Cook
Joe De Sena
Joe Gebbia
Joe Hill
Joe Maddon
Joe Rogan
Joel McHale
Joel Stein
John Arnold
John Bartholomew
John Carmack
John Collison
John Crowley
John Doerr
John Green
John Grisham
John Hodgman
John Legend
John Leguizamo
John Mayer
John Piper
John Scalzi
Jon Call
Jon Favreau
Jon Stewart
Jonathan Eisen
Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Sacks
Jordan Peterson
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Josh Marshall
Josh Waitzkin
Joshua Skenes
Judd Apatow
Judy Blume
Julia Galef
Julie Rice
Justin Boreta
Justin Kan
Jérôme Jarre
Kanye West
Kara Swisher
Karen Kilgariff
Karlie Kloss
Kaskade
Kat Cole
Kathie Lee Gifford
Kathryn Minshew
Katie Couric
Katrín Davíðsdóttir
Keanu Reeves
Keith Rabois
Kelly Slater
Kelly Starrett
Ken Block
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Rose
Kevin Smith
Kevin Systrom
Khloé Kardashian
Kishore Biyani
Krista Tippett
Kristen Ulmer
Kurt Cobain
Kyle Maynard
Laird Hamilton
Larry Ellison
Larry King
Larry Page
Laura Ingraham
Laura R Walker
Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurie Halse Anderson
LeBron James
Lee Stranahan
Leigh Bardugo
Lena Dunham
Leo Babauta
Levar Burton
Lewis Cantley
Lewis Howes
Lex Fridman
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Linda Sarsour
Linus Torvalds
Lisa Ling
Lisa Randall
Liv Boeree
Liz Lambert
Lloyd Blankfein
Lou Dobbs
Luis von Ahn
Lupita Aquino
Lyn Alden
M. Sanjayan
MJ DeMarco
Magnus Carlsen
Mahatma Gandhi
Malcolm Gladwell
Maluma
Marc Andreessen
Marc Benioff
Marc Goodman
Marc Lamont Hill
Marc Maron
Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher
Marcus Lemonis
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Cho
Margot Robbie
Maria Popova
Maria Sharapova
Marian Keyes
Marie Forleo
Marie Kondo
Marie Lu
Marissa Mayer
Mark Bell
Mark Bittman
Mark Cuban
Mark Hart
Mark Manson
Mark Spitznagel
Mark Twain
Mark Zuckerberg
Martin Polanco
Marty Cagan
Matt Chandler
Matt Dillahunty
Matt Haig
Matt Mullenweg
Matt Ogus
Matt Ridley
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew Yglesias
Maurice Ashley
Max Keiser
Max Levchin
Maya Angelou
Meg Cabot
Meghan McCain
Megyn Kelly
Melinda Gates
Michael Batnick
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Dell
Michael Gervais
Michael Hyatt
Michael Mauboussin
Michael McCullough
Michael Pollan
Michael Sartain
Military Veteran, Podcaster & Entrepreneur
Michael Smerconish
Michelle Obama
Michiko Kakutani
Mike Birbiglia
Mike Maples, Jr.
Mike Novogratz
Mike Phillips
Mike Rowe
Mike Shinoda
Mindy Kaling
Mohnish Pabrai
Morgan Housel
Morgan Spurlock
Mr. Money Mustache
Mukesh Ambani
Muna AbuSulayman
Murray Carter
Nancy Pearl
Nassim Taleb
Natalie Portman
Nate Berkus
Naval Ravikant
Navdeep Chandel
Neal Boortz
Neil Gaiman
Neil Strauss
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nelson Mandela
Neville Medhora
Newt Gingrich
Niall Ferguson
Nicholas McCarthy
Nick Ganju
Nick Kokonas
Nick Offerman
Nick Szabo
Nick Thompson
Nicola Sturgeon
Nigella Lawson
Noah Centineo
Noah Kagan
Noah Smith
Noam Chomsky
Nolan Bushnell
Pat Flynn
Patrick Arnold
Patrick Bet-David
Patrick Collison
Patrick Madrid
Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Patrick Rothfuss
Patton Oswalt
Paul Graham
Paul Krugman
Paul Rabil
Paul Stamets
Paul Tudor Jones
Paulo Coelho
Pavel Durov
Pavel Tsatsouline
Penn Jillette
Pete Holmes
Peter Attia
Peter Diamandis
Peter King
Peter Mallouk
Peter Schiff
Peter Thiel
PewDiePie
Phil Jackson
Phil Keoghan
Phil Knight
Phil Libin
Preet Bharara
Preston Pysh
Rachel Held Evans
Rainbow Rowell
Rainn Wilson
Ramit Sethi
Rand Paul
Randall Carlson
Raoul Pal
Ravi Zacharias
Ray Dalio
Reed Hastings
Reese Witherspoon
Reid Hoffman
Rian Johnson
Ricardo Semler
Richa Chadha
Richard Betts
Richard Branson
Richard Dawkins
Richard Osman
Rick Riordan
Rick Rubin
Robert Greene
Robert Macfarlane
Robert Rodriguez
Roberto Blake
Robin Black
Robin Sharma
Roger Bennett
Rolf Potts
Rollo Tomassi
Roman Mars
Ron Conway
Ron Paul
Rory Sutherland
Ross Kaminsky
Roxane Gay
Rupert Murdoch
Russell Brand
Russell Brunson
Russell Moore
Rutger Bregman
Ryan Flaherty
Ryan Holiday
Ryan Hoover
Ryan Petersen
Ryan Shea
Saagar Enjeti
Safi Bahcall
Sahil Lavingia
Salman Rushdie
Sam Altman
Sam Harris
Sam Hinkie
Sam Kass
Samin Nosrat
Samy Kamkar
Sara Blakely
Sara Haines
Sarah J. Maas
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Lewis
Satya Nadella
Scott Adams
Scott Belsky
Scott Galloway
Sean Carroll
Sean Hannity
Sebastian Junger
Selena Gomez
Serena Izzo
Sergey Brin
Seth Godin
Seth Rogen
Shah Rukh Khan
Shane Parrish
Sharon Salzberg
Shashi Tharoor
Shaun White
Shauna Niequist
Shay Carl
Sheryl Sandberg
Shonda Rhimes
Sid Meier
Simon Mayo
Simon Sinek
Soman Chainani
Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Bush
Stanislav Grof
Stanley McChrystal
Steph Pilavin
Stephen Dubner
Stephen Fry
Stephen King
Steve Aoki
Steve Blank
Steve Gibson
Steve Harvey
Steve Jobs
Steve Jurvetson
Steve Kerr
Steve Wozniak
Steven Pinker
Steven Pressfield
Steven Rinella
Stewart Brand
Stewart Butterfield
Strauss Zelnick
Sunny Hostin
Susan Cain
Susan Wojcicki
Suzy Amis Cameron
T. D. Jakes
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Tai Lopez
Tara Brach
Tavi Gevinson
Taylor Swift
Terry Crews
Terry Laughlin
Thom Hartmann
Thomas Frank
Tim Cook
Tim Draper
Tim Ferriss
Tim Keller
Tim Mackie
Tim O’Reilly
Tim Urban
Timothy Sykes
Tobi Lütke
Tom Bilyeu
Tom Hanks
Tom Hiddleston
Tom Holland
Tom Keene
Tom Peters
Tommy Vietor
Tony Hsieh
Tony Robbins
Tracy DiNunzio
Travis Brewer
Travis Kalanick
Tristan Harris
Trung Phan
Tucker Carlson
Turia Pitt
Twinkle Khanna
Tyler Cowen
Tyler Oakley
