Political Bookshelf: Leaders' Recommendations

Learn what books political figures are reading. Explore reads that inform and shape political thought and action.

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

8

4.2

(334k+)

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Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

1

3.9

(205k+)

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Why Liberalism Failed

Patrick J. Deneen

1

3.9

(2.78k+)

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White Teeth

Zadie Smith

1

3.8

(152k+)

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Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

3

4.2

(979k+)

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We Live in Water

Jess Walter

1

3.9

(6.15k+)

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Washington Black

Esi Edugyan

1

4.0

(65.5k+)

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Washington

Ron Chernow

1

4.1

(70.9k+)

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Warlight

Michael Ondaatje

1

3.6

(43.8k+)

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Truth Decay

Jennifer Kavanagh

1

4.1

(62)

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Trust Exercise

Susan Choi

1

3.1

(34.1k+)

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Trick Mirror

Jia Tolentino

2

4.1

(67.2k+)

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Tough Love

Susan Rice

1

4.1

(1.88k+)

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Total Recall

Arnold Schwarzenegger

1

4.2

(20.7k+)

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Tools of Titans

Tim Ferriss

5

4.1

(40.7k+)

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

7

4.2

(469k+)

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Think Again

Adam Grant

2

4.2

(84.3k+)

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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

Rene Girard

1

4.3

(657)

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Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

2

3.7

(357k+)

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There There

Tommy Orange

1

4.0

(168k+)

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The Yellow House

Sarah M. Broom

1

3.9

(23.2k+)

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The World as It Is

Ben Rhodes

1

4.3

(11.6k+)

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The Word Collector

Peter H. Reynolds

2

4.4

(4.5k+)

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The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

1

4.5

(96.6k+)

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The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

4

4.1

(387k+)

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The Topeka School

Ben Lerner

1

3.5

(24.8k+)

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The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

6

4.1

(286k+)

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The Story of Babar

Jean De Brunhoff

1

4.1

(58.5k+)

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The Splendid and the Vile

Erik Larson

2

4.3

(109k+)

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The Sovereign Individual

James Dale Davidson

3

4.2

(3.02k+)

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The Source of Self-Regard

Toni Morrison

1

4.3

(3.46k+)

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The Snowy Day

Ezra Jack Keats

1

4.2

(114k+)

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The Sixth Man

Andre Iguodala

1

4.1

(3.2k+)

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The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert

3

4.2

(68.2k+)

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The Shallows

Nicholas Carr

2

3.9

(29k+)

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The Shadow of Sirius

W.S. Merwin

1

4.2

(1.66k+)

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The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

5

4.2

(51.8k+)

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The Return

Hisham Matar

2

4.1

(10.9k+)

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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Jeanne Theoharis

1

4.0

(1.26k+)

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The Reasonableness of Christianity

John Locke

1

3.5

(61)

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The Premonition

Michael Lewis

1

4.4

(37.8k+)

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The Power

Naomi Alderman

2

3.8

(220k+)

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The Oxford Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

1

4.6

(955)

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The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

1

4.1

(99k+)

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The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

1

4.3

(233k+)

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The New Geography Of Jobs

Enrico Moretti

1

4.0

(2.55k+)

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The New Atlantis

Sir Francis Bacon

1

3.1

(3.67k+)

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The Moment of Lift

Melinda Gates

5

4.3

(58.7k+)

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The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

2

3.9

(26.8k+)

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The Messianic Character of American Education

Rousas John Rushdoony

1

4.1

(68)

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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

4

4.3

(333k+)

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The Lowland

Jhumpa Lahiri

1

3.9

(92.2k+)

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The Light of the World

Elizabeth Alexander

1

4.1

(9.54k+)

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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

Denis Johnson

1

3.9

(8.1k+)

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Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

1

4.1

(2.9m+)

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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

David Treuer

2

4.2

(5.49k+)

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

6

4.2

(89.1k+)

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The Great Illusion

Norman Angell

1

3.6

(120)

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The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

2

4.0

(880k+)

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The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

2

4.0

(2.8m+)

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Dying

Cory Taylor

1

3.8

(4.24k+)

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The Founders

Jimmy Soni

2

4.2

(2.38k+)

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The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

Edward Shepherd Creasy

2

3.7

(859)

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The Education of an Idealist

Samantha Power

1

4.4

(17.6k+)

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The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

2

4.2

(3.6m+)

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The Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson

3

4.2

(88.9k+)

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The Decadent Society

Ross Gregory Douthat

1

3.8

(2.14k+)

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The Daily Stoic

Ryan Holiday

1

4.4

(33.2k+)

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The City and the Stars

Arthur C. Clarke

1

4.1

(33k+)

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The Churchill Factor

Boris Johnson

2

4.1

(7.99k+)

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The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss

1

4.2

(523k+)

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The Bully Pulpit

Doris Kearns Goodwin

2

4.1

(22.3k+)

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The Broken Ladder

Keith Payne

1

4.2

(3.45k+)

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The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

7

4.0

(109k+)

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The Anarchy

William Dalrymple

1

4.2

(13.3k+)

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The American Challenge

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

1

3.7

(70)

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff

1

4.1

(10.6k+)

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The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

Astrid Lindgren

2

4.2

(202k+)

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Speed & Scale

John Doerr

1

4.3

(1.17k+)

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Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

3

4.1

(108k+)

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Solitary

Albert Woodfox

1

4.4

(3.5k+)

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

1

4.0

(130k+)

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Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

2

4.0

(113k+)

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Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1

4.1

(18.5k+)

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Say Nothing

Patrick Radden Keefe

1

4.5

(94.9k+)

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Resurrection from the Underground

Rene Girard

1

4.2

(204)

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Psychopolitics

Jean-Michel Oughourlian

1

4.0

(32)

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Parting the Waters

Taylor Branch

1

4.4

(9.58k+)

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Paradise Lost

John Milton

2

3.8

(161k+)

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Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

3

4.3

(431k+)

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Our Own Worst Enemy

Tom Nichols

1

4.1

(942)

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Originals

Adam Grant

4

4.0

(51k+)

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Olivia

Ian Falconer

1

4.2

(64.1k+)

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Normal People

Sally Rooney

3

3.8

(1.2m+)

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Moby Dick

Herman Melville

3

3.5

(544k+)

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Men Without Women

Haruki Murakami

1

3.8

(97.2k+)

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Maid

Stephanie Land

1

3.8

(86.4k+)

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Lot

Bryan Washington

1

3.8

(9.06k+)

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Lost Children Archive

Valeria Luiselli

1

3.8

(21.8k+)

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Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

2

4.3

(84.5k+)

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