Independent Editorial Archive
Books recommended by the world's most notable people.
Every recommendation sourced from primary records — interviews, newsletters, book clubs, and more.
Reese Witherspoon
Actor & Founder, Hello Sunshine
Lady Tremaine
Rachel Hochhauser
In Her Defense
Philippa Malicka
The First Time I Saw Him
Laura Dave
The Heir Apparent
Rebecca Armitage
James
Percival Everett
Heiress Takes All
Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall
Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry
To the Moon and Back
Eliana Ramage
Once Upon a Time in Dollywood
Ashley Jordan
Spectacular Things
Beck Dorey-Stein
The Phoenix Pencil Company
Allison King
Stuck Up And Stupid
Angourie Rice and Kate Rice
All That Life Can Afford
Emily Everett
Isola
Allegra Goodman
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Kate Fagan
The Life Impossible
Matt Haig
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
Funny Story
Emily Henry
The Women
Kristin Hannah
First Lie Wins
Ashley Elston
The Cliffs
J. Courtney Sullivan
Throwback
Maurene Goo
City of Nightbirds
Juhea Kim
We Will Be Jaguars
Nemonte Nenquimo & Mitch Anderson
Society of Lies
Lauren Ling Brown
Looking for Smoke
K.A. Cobell
The Comfort of Crows
Margaret Renkl
Slow Dance
Rainbow Rowell
The Unwedding
Ally Condie
Twelfth Knight
Alexene Farol Follmuth
How to End a Love Story
Yulin Kuang
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Claire Lombardo
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Gabby Rivera
Redwood Court
DéLana R.A. Dameron
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
Cassandra in Reverse
Holly Smale
Before We Were Innocent
Ella Berman
Maybe Next Time
Cesca Major
Starling House
Alix E. Harrow
Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Nina Simon
Yellowface
R.F. Kuang
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
Crystal Smith Paul
Romantic Comedy
Curtis Sittenfeld
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
The House of Eve
Sadeqa Johnson
The House in the Pines
Ana Reyes
The Marriage Portrait
Maggie O'Farrell
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed
Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng
On the Rooftop
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Gillian McAllister
Honey & Spice
Bolu Babalola
Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen
Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams
True Biz
Sara Nović
The Club
Ellery Lloyd
The Christie Affair
Nina de Gramont
Anatomy
Dana Schwartz
Honor
Thrity Umrigar
Lucky
Marissa Stapley
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak
Sankofa
Chibundu Onuzo
Within These Wicked Walls
Lauren Blackwood
L.A. Weather
María Amparo Escandón
We Were Never Here
Andrea Bartz
The Downstairs Girl
Stacey Lee
The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
Tokyo Ever After
Emiko Jean
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
Northern Spy
Flynn Berry
Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley
Infinite Country
Patricia Engel
The Sanatorium
Sarah Pearse
Outlawed
Anna North
You Have a Match
Emma Lord
The Chicken Sisters
KJ Dell'Antonia
The Light in Hidden Places
Sharon Cameron
Group
Christie Tate
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
Laura Taylor Namey
His Only Wife
Peace Adzo Medie
Fable
Adrienne Young
The Last Story of Mina Lee
Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Furia
Yamile Saied Méndez
You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson
Everything Inside
Edwidge Danticat
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
The Guest List
Lucy Foley
The Henna Artist
Alka Joshi
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
The Jetsetters
Amanda Eyre Ward
The Scent Keeper
Erica Bauermeister
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
Conviction
Denise Mina
The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes
Fair Play
Eve Rodsky
The Secrets We Kept
Lara Prescott
The Last House Guest
Megan Miranda
Whisper Network
Chandler Baker
The Cactus
Sarah Haywood
From Scratch
Tembi Locke
The Night Tiger
Yangsze Choo
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Proposal
Jasmine Guillory
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
Elon Musk
CEO of Tesla, SpaceX & X
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
The Founders
Jimmy Soni
The Iliad
Homer
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
The Gallic Wars
Julius Caesar
The Wages of Destruction
Adam Tooze
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
Storm of Steel
Ernst Junger
American Caesar
William Manchester
The Road to Serfdom
F.A. Hayek
The Story of Civilization
Will Durant
Masters of Doom
David Kushner
Twelve Against the Gods
William Bolitho
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
Bad Therapy
Abigail Shrier
The Big Picture
Sean Carroll
Structures
J.E. Gordon
Ignition!
John Drury Clark
Our Final Invention
James Barrat
Not Much of an Engineer
Sir Stanley Hooker
The Parasitic Mind
Gad Saad
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
The Machine Stops
E.M. Forster
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... Where Is Everybody?
Stephen Webb
Dune
Frank Herbert
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes
Lying
Sam Harris
Catherine the Great
Robert K. Massie
Screw Business as Usual
Richard Branson
Daemon
Daniel Suarez
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
Dua Lipa
Musician & Founder, Service95
Small Boat
Vincent Delecroix
Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay
The Son of Man
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
Widow Basquiat
Jennifer Clement
Night People
Mark Ronson
Brightly Shining
Helen Garner
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Flesh
David Szalay
Beautyland
Marie-Helene Bertino
The Trees
Percival Everett
This House of Grief
Helen Garner
The Life Impossible
Matt Haig
Still Born
Guadalupe Nettel
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Max Porter
There There
Tommy Orange
Funny Story
Emily Henry
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk
On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Bad Habit
Alana S. Portero
All Fours
Miranda July
Noughts & Crosses
Malorie Blackman
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
Swimming in the Dark
Tomasz Jedrowski
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Trust
Hernán Díaz
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
The Guest
Emma Cline
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Just Kids
Patti Smith
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Bill Gates
Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
Abundance
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
Steven Pinker
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
Who Knew
Barry Diller
Clearing the Air
Hannah Ritchie
Eruption
Michael Crichton & James Patterson
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
The Women
Kristin Hannah
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Not the End of the World
Hannah Ritchie
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
