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
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Kate Fagan
Isola
Allegra Goodman
All That Life Can Afford
Emily Everett
Stuck Up And Stupid
Angourie Rice and Kate Rice
The Phoenix Pencil Company
Allison King
Spectacular Things
Beck Dorey-Stein
Once Upon a Time in Dollywood
Ashley Jordan
To the Moon and Back
Eliana Ramage
Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry
Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
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
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Gabby Rivera
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Claire Lombardo
How to End a Love Story
Yulin Kuang
Twelfth Knight
Alexene Farol Follmuth
The Unwedding
Ally Condie
Slow Dance
Rainbow Rowell
The Comfort of Crows
Margaret Renkl
Looking for Smoke
K.A. Cobell
Society of Lies
Lauren Ling Brown
We Will Be Jaguars
Nemonte Nenquimo & Mitch Anderson
City of Nightbirds
Juhea Kim
Throwback
Maurene Goo
The Cliffs
J. Courtney Sullivan
Redwood Court
DéLana R.A. Dameron
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
Starling House
Alix E. Harrow
The House in the Pines
Ana Reyes
The House of Eve
Sadeqa Johnson
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Romantic Comedy
Curtis Sittenfeld
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
Crystal Smith Paul
Cassandra in Reverse
Holly Smale
Yellowface
R.F. Kuang
Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Nina Simon
Maybe Next Time
Cesca Major
Before We Were Innocent
Ella Berman
Honor
Thrity Umrigar
Anatomy
Dana Schwartz
The Christie Affair
Nina de Gramont
The Club
Ellery Lloyd
True Biz
Sara Nović
Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams
Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen
Honey & Spice
Bolu Babalola
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Gillian McAllister
On the Rooftop
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed
The Marriage Portrait
Maggie O'Farrell
You Have a Match
Emma Lord
Outlawed
Anna North
The Sanatorium
Sarah Pearse
Infinite Country
Patricia Engel
Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley
Northern Spy
Flynn Berry
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
Tokyo Ever After
Emiko Jean
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller
The Downstairs Girl
Stacey Lee
We Were Never Here
Andrea Bartz
L.A. Weather
María Amparo Escandón
Within These Wicked Walls
Lauren Blackwood
Sankofa
Chibundu Onuzo
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak
Lucky
Marissa Stapley
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
The Scent Keeper
Erica Bauermeister
The Jetsetters
Amanda Eyre Ward
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
The Henna Artist
Alka Joshi
The Guest List
Lucy Foley
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
Everything Inside
Edwidge Danticat
You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson
Furia
Yamile Saied Méndez
The Last Story of Mina Lee
Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Fable
Adrienne Young
His Only Wife
Peace Adzo Medie
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
Laura Taylor Namey
Group
Christie Tate
The Light in Hidden Places
Sharon Cameron
The Chicken Sisters
KJ Dell'Antonia
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
The Proposal
Jasmine Guillory
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Night Tiger
Yangsze Choo
From Scratch
Tembi Locke
The Cactus
Sarah Haywood
Whisper Network
Chandler Baker
The Last House Guest
Megan Miranda
The Secrets We Kept
Lara Prescott
Fair Play
Eve Rodsky
The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes
Conviction
Denise Mina
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
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
