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@mira_afterdark

Barack Obama's favorite books of 2025

11 items
  • 01Paper Girl - Beth Macy
  • 02Flashlight, Susan Choi
  • 03We the People (Jill Lepore)
  • ยทยท8 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

Dua Lipa's Service95 book club, every 2025 pick

12 items
  • 01Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
  • 02The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
  • 03There There - Tommy Orange
  • ยทยท9 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

Charlie Munger's own recommended books, the appendix list

20 items
  • 01The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
  • 02Andrew Carnegie - Joseph Frazier Wall
  • 03The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
  • ยทยท17 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

Books Elon Musk has actually recommended in interviews

11 items
  • 01Foundation series - Isaac Asimov
  • 02The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
  • 03Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
  • ยทยท8 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

Oprah's Book Club, 2023 to 2025

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  • 01Bittersweet by Susan Cain
  • 02Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
  • 03The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
  • ยทยท17 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

jeff bezos's reading list: the 12 books amazon execs were handed

12 items
  • 01The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
  • 02Sam Walton: Made in America
  • 03Memos from the Chairman - Alan Greenberg
  • ยทยท9 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

Bill Gates's 2025 holiday book list

5 items
  • 01Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
  • 02Clearing the Air (Hannah Ritchie)
  • 03Who Knew - Barry Diller
  • ยทยท2 more entries
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@edieshortlist

the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2025

10 items
  • 01The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
  • 02Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
  • 03The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
  • ยทยท7 more entries
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@finnindexes

the 20 lessons in The Psychology of Money

20 items
  • 011. No One's Crazy
  • 022. Luck & Risk
  • 033. Never Enough
  • ยทยท17 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

Patrick Collison's bookshelf, the ones marked green

20 items
  • 01A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction - Christopher Alexander
  • 02Age of Ambition - Evan Osnos
  • 03Anthropic Bias - Nick Bostrom
  • ยทยท17 more entries
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@edieshortlist

International Booker Prize winners, the last ten years

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  • 01Taiwan Travelogue - Yang Shuang-zi (tr. Lin King), 2026
  • 02Heart Lamp: Selected Stories - Banu Mushtaq (tr. Deepa Bhasthi), 2025
  • 03Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck (tr. Michael Hofmann), 2024
  • ยทยท7 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

The new books everyone's recommending this month, September 2026

13 items
  • 01Exit Party - Emily St. John Mandel
  • 02American Hagwon - Min Jin Lee
  • 03The Disappearers - Marlon James
  • ยทยท10 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

Reese's Book Club, 2025 so far

15 items
  • 01The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
  • 02Throwback by Maurene Goo
  • 03City of Nightbirds by Juhea Kim
  • ยทยท12 more entries
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@edieshortlist

Hugo Award for Best Novel winners, 2015 to 2025

11 items
  • 01The Three-Body Problem (2015) - Liu Cixin, tr. Ken Liu
  • 02The Fifth Season (2016) - N. K. Jemisin
  • 03The Obelisk Gate (2017) - N. K. Jemisin
  • ยทยท8 more entries
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@noorlooksup

neil degrasse tyson's eight books every intelligent person should read

8 items
  • 01The Bible
  • 02The System of the World (Isaac Newton)
  • 03On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
  • ยทยท5 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

david bowie's 100 favorite books: 18 novels to start with

19 items
  • 01The Great Gatsby
  • 02Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell)
  • 03Lolita - Nabokov
  • ยทยท16 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

Satya Nadella's book recommendations, sourced

11 items
  • 01Mindset - Carol Dweck
  • 02Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg
  • 03Deep Learning - Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
  • ยทยท8 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

Barack Obama's favorite books of 2023

15 items
  • 01The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
  • 02The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut
  • 03Poverty, By America - Matthew Desmond
  • ยทยท12 more entries
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@edieshortlist

Booker Prize winners, 2010 to 2025

16 items
  • 012010: The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
  • 022011: The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
  • 032012: Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
  • ยทยท13 more entries
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@edieshortlist

goodreads choice 2025 winners, the categories I track

12 items
  • 01My Friends - Fredrik Backman (Fiction)
  • 02Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid (Historical Fiction)
  • 03Not Quite Dead Yet - Holly Jackson (Mystery & Thriller)
  • ยทยท9 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

Barack Obama's favorite books of 2024

10 items
  • 01The Anxious Generation (Jonathan Haidt)
  • 02Intermezzo (Sally Rooney)
  • 03Patriot (Alexei Navalny)
  • ยทยท7 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

Books Warren Buffett recommended in his letters

9 items
  • 01The Intelligent Investor
  • 02Poor Charlie's Almanack
  • 03Tap Dancing to Work
  • ยทยท6 more entries
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@noorlooksup

royal society science book prize, last 10 winners

10 items
  • 01Our Brains, Our Selves - Masud Husain
  • 02A City on Mars - Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
  • 03An Immense World - Ed Yong
  • ยทยท7 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

every Read with Jenna pick from 2025

12 items
  • 01The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus - Emma Knight
  • 02This Is a Love Story - Jessica Soffer
  • 03The Dream Hotel - Laila Lalami
  • ยทยท9 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

Art Garfunkel's favorite books, from his own reading log

9 items
  • 01War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  • 02Confession - Leo Tolstoy
  • 03Ulysses - James Joyce
  • ยทยท6 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

the one book each of Tim Ferriss's guests keeps gifting

13 items
  • 01Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Renรฉ Girard)
  • 02Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
  • 03Start with Why (Simon Sinek)
  • ยทยท10 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

20 books from Stephen King's reading list in On Writing

20 items
  • 01A Death in the Family - James Agee
  • 02Regeneration - Pat Barker
  • 03The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
  • ยทยท17 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

Barack Obama's 2025 summer reading list

10 items
  • 01Mark Twain (Ron Chernow)
  • 02The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Stephen Graham Jones)
  • 03The Book of Records, Madeleine Thien
  • ยทยท7 more entries
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@noorlooksup

Stephen Hawking's popular books, in the order to read them

7 items
  • 01A Brief History of Time (1988)
  • 02Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)
  • 03The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)
  • ยทยท4 more entries
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@edieshortlist

Modern Library's 100 best novels, the top 15

15 items
  • 011. Ulysses - James Joyce (1922)
  • 022. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
  • 033. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (1916)
  • ยทยท12 more entries
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@edieshortlist

the BBC's Big Read, top 21

21 items
  • 01The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • 02Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • 03His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
  • ยทยท18 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

Naval Ravikant's recommended reading, from navalmanack.com

17 items
  • 01Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
  • 02The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
  • 03Genome - Matt Ridley
  • ยทยท14 more entries
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@edieshortlist

Le Monde's 100 books of the century, the top 20

20 items
  • 01The Stranger - Albert Camus (1942)
  • 02In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust (1913-1927)
  • 03The Trial - Franz Kafka (1925)
  • ยทยท17 more entries
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@gretabakes

bread books that earned real shelf space

7 items
  • 01Flour Water Salt Yeast - Ken Forkish
  • 02Tartine Bread - Chad Robertson
  • 03Bread - Jeffrey Hamelman
  • ยทยท4 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

Ryan Holiday's books to base your life on

15 items
  • 01Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • 02Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
  • 03Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • ยทยท12 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

the complete Stripe Press catalog

20 items
  • 01Built to Grow - Stephanie Friedman
  • 02Poor Charlie's Almanack - edited by Peter D. Kaufman
  • 03Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One - Stewart Brand
  • ยทยท17 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

Mark Zuckerberg's 2015 book club, 18 of the 23

18 items
  • 01Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
  • 02Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  • 03The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
  • ยทยท15 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

the books Isaacson says Steve Jobs really read

8 items
  • 01The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensenโ†—
  • 02King Lear by William Shakespeare
  • 03Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • ยทยท5 more entries
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@edieshortlist

The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, all six

6 items
  • 01The Land in Winter - Andrew Miller
  • 02Audition - Katie Kitamura
  • 03The Rest of Our Lives - Ben Markovits
  • ยทยท3 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

Peter Thiel's recommended books, sourced one by one

10 items
  • 01Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Rene Girardโ†—
  • 02The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
  • 03Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
  • ยทยท7 more entries
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@borrowedshelves

Bill Gates's summer 2025 reading list

5 items
  • 01Personal History - Katharine Graham
  • 02Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life - Nicholas Kristof
  • 03Educated - Tara Westover
  • ยทยท2 more entries
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@fayefrights

slow burn horror books that don't get the hype the movies do

11 items
  • 01Ghost Story - Peter Straub
  • 02We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
  • 03Harvest Home - Thomas Tryon
  • ยทยท8 more entries
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@fayefrights

horror short story collections worth owning

9 items
  • 01The October Country - Ray Bradbury
  • 02Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
  • 03North American Lake Monsters - Nathan Ballingrud
  • ยทยท6 more entries
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@priyapivots

books that actually helped when I left law

13 items
  • 01So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport
  • 02Working Identity - Herminia Ibarra
  • 03Designing Your Life - Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
  • ยทยท10 more entries
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@edieshortlist

women's prize for fiction winners since 2016

11 items
  • 012016: The Glorious Heresies - Lisa McInerney
  • 022017: The Power - Naomi Alderman
  • 032018: Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie
  • ยทยท8 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

The books Murakami named as his own, Paris Review 2004

5 items
  • 01The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 02The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  • 03The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
  • ยทยท2 more entries
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@edieshortlist

the National Book Award for Fiction, last ten winners

10 items
  • 01The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)
  • 02Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward (2017)
  • 03The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (2018)
  • ยทยท7 more entries
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@noorlooksup

carl sagan's 1954 reading list

10 items
  • 01Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay
  • 02The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies - Herbert J. Muller
  • 03The Immoralist - Andrรฉ Gide
  • ยทยท7 more entries
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@fayefrights

horror books that scared me worse than any movie has

9 items
  • 01The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jacksonโ†—
  • 02A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblayโ†—
  • 03House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • ยทยท6 more entries
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@owenless

minimalism books beyond marie kondo

7 items
  • 01Goodbye, Things - Fumio Sasaki
  • 02Essentialism - Greg McKeown
  • 03Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
  • ยทยท4 more entries
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@gretabakes

bread books that actually stay on the counter covered in flour

6 items
  • 01Tartine Bread (Chad Robertson)
  • 02Flour Water Salt Yeast (Ken Forkish)
  • 03The Bread Baker's Apprentice (Peter Reinhart)
  • ยทยท3 more entries
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@diego

Books that made me a better builder

5 items
  • 01The Mom Test โ€” Rob Fitzpatrickโ†—
  • 02Getting Real โ€” 37signals
  • 03The E-Myth Revisited
  • ยทยท2 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

Barack Obamaโ€™s complete 2024 summer reading list

14 items
  • 01James - Percival Everett
  • 02Thereโ€™s Always This Year - Hanif Abdurraqib
  • 03Everyone Who Is Gone Here - Jonathan Blitzer
  • ยทยท11 more entries
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@fayefrights

horror books to read before the movie drops

4 items
  • 01The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
  • 02Incidents Around the House - Josh Malerman
  • 03Carrie - Stephen King
  • ยทยท1 more entry
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@abereadsold

history books that actually read like novels

8 items
  • 01The Guns of August (Barbara Tuchman)
  • 02The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)
  • 03The Splendid and the Vile (Erik Larson)
  • ยทยท5 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

first sci-fi books for people who think they dislike sci-fi

17 items
  • 01Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 02Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
  • 03Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
  • ยทยท14 more entries
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@mira_afterdark

the five books Bill Gates named as all-time favorites in 2022

5 items
  • 01Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
  • 02Surrender - Bono
  • 03Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • ยทยท2 more entries
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