TED 2013 Summer Reading List

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The TED conference asked its 2013 speakers for book recommendations. See http://blog.ted.com/2013/05/31/your-mega-summer-reading-list-180-books-recommended-by-tedsters/ for the list.
1
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
59,410 members
924 reviews
4.2
7 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, kara.shamy, baconshire, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
2
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
15,407 members
207 reviews
4.1
6 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, mspixieears, pschlik, ManWithAnAgenda
3
Good Omens
by Terry Pratchett
34,996 members
794 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, baconshire, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
8,800 members
257 reviews
½ 4.5
5 Members
hipdeep, cej1027, debbielovesdogs, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
5
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
13,949 members
264 reviews
4
4 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, baconshire
6
I Want My Hat Back
by Jon Klassen
3,035 members
267 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
pateke, LoriAnnK, cej1027
7
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
25,145 members
377 reviews
4.1
3 Members
kara.shamy, baconshire, pschlik
8
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
5,468 members
36 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
9
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
4,472 members
15 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
10
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
23,156 members
380 reviews
3.9
2 Members
hipdeep, mspixieears
11
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
41,388 members
1,051 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, baconshire,ManWithAnAgenda
12
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
15,863 members
378 reviews
4.1
3 Members
ahef1963, baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda
13
The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1,881 members
76 reviews
4.1
2 Members
debbielovesdogs, kara.shamy
14
Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
4,542 members
222 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
16
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
by Richard Bach
4,693 members
77 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Emmay
17
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
10,652 members
416 reviews
4.2
2 Members
bplas, ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
1,142 members
25 reviews
3.9
2 Members
LoriAnnK, kara.shamy
19
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
7,820 members
396 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, mspixieears
20
Carry On, Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
3,536 members
74 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
21
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
8,213 members
368 reviews
4.2
2 Members
mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
22
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
31,855 members
565 reviews
4.1
3 Members
kara.shamy, baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027
23
Dune
by Frank Herbert
42,958 members
695 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda
24
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
27,265 members
632 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
25
Cheaper by the Dozen
by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
4,768 members
80 reviews
4
2 Members
cej1027, debbielovesdogs
26
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
9,018 members
355 reviews
3.8
2 Members
debbielovesdogs, baconshire
27
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud
5,197 members
98 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda
28
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
19,372 members
325 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
29
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
5,498 members
85 reviews
4
Member
pschlik
30
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
by Roddy Doyle
4,047 members
79 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
cej1027
31
This Is a Book
by Demetri Martin
559 members
31 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
32
Behind the Kitchen Door
by Saru Jayaraman
158 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
bplas
33
Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
3,301 members
40 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
34
All My Friends Are Dead
by Avery Monsen
1,127 members
44 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
35
This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
2,927 members
122 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
kara.shamy
36
Go the F**k to Sleep
by Adam Mansbach
1,964 members
151 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
37
The Company
by Robert Littell
1,293 members
25 reviews
4
Member
LoriAnnK
38
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
by Alison Bechdel
1,982 members
100 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
39
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
by Tanner Colby
134 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
LoriAnnK
40
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
8,353 members
725 reviews
3.8
Member
cej1027
42
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
9,431 members
315 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
43
Everyone Poops
by Tarō Gomi
2,067 members
81 reviews
4
Member
cej1027
44
Wonder
by R. J. Palacio
14,287 members
1,252 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
debbielovesdogs
45
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
10,001 members
187 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
46
Horns
by Joe Hill
4,552 members
295 reviews
3.8
Member
kara.shamy
47
The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed Set: Griffin & Sabine/Sabine's Notebook/The Golden Mean
by Nick Bantock
700 members
11 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
48
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
28,049 members
1,044 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
49
The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
7,853 members
65 reviews
4.2
Member
baconshire
50
John Adams
by David McCullough
13,832 members
200 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
kara.shamy
51
Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
6,221 members
106 reviews
4.1
Member
baconshire
52
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't
by Nate Silver
3,234 members
83 reviews
3.8
Member
baconshire
53
Mysteries of Winterthurn
by Joyce Carol Oates
318 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
kara.shamy
54
Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald
4,154 members
101 reviews
4.2
Member
kara.shamy
55
City of Glass: The Graphic Novel
by Paul Auster
1,237 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
56
An Intimate History of Humanity
by Theodore Zeldin
1,038 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
baconshire
57
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
1,652 members
38 reviews
3.9
Member
baconshire
58
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
by Michael Ruhlman
1,195 members
12 reviews
4
Member
baconshire
59
Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness
by Jessica Valenti
158 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
60
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
5,287 members
186 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
kara.shamy
61
The Principles of Uncertainty
by Maira Kalman
868 members
33 reviews
4.2
Member
baconshire
62
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
9,455 members
253 reviews
4
63
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
7,348 members
76 reviews
3.9
64
My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
7,055 members
173 reviews
3.8
65
The Player of Games
by Iain M. Banks
6,490 members
198 reviews
4.1
66
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt Vonnegut
6,312 members
55 reviews
3.9
67
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
5,359 members
140 reviews
½ 4.4
68
On a Pale Horse
by Piers Anthony
5,077 members
93 reviews
3.8
69
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
5,028 members
60 reviews
4
70
The Essential Rumi
by Rumi
4,306 members
28 reviews
½ 4.3
71
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by Joshua Foer
4,296 members
134 reviews
3.8
72
On Basilisk Station
by David Weber
4,096 members
117 reviews
3.9
73
The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
4,020 members
358 reviews
½ 4.5
74
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
by Tom Holland
3,652 members
71 reviews
4
75
Accelerando
by Charles Stross
3,363 members
123 reviews
½ 3.7
76
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
by Pema Chödrön
3,255 members
59 reviews
4.2
77
Press Here
by Hervé Tullet
3,151 members
188 reviews
½ 4.5
78
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
2,943 members
48 reviews
½ 4.6
79
Daemon
by Daniel Suarez
2,714 members
155 reviews
3.9
80
Personal History
by Katharine Graham
2,702 members
45 reviews
4
82
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by Richard Louv
2,552 members
44 reviews
4
83
ReWork
by Jason Fried
2,324 members
84 reviews
3.8
84
The Intuitionist
by Colson Whitehead
2,235 members
64 reviews
½ 3.7
85
The Neutronium Alchemist
by Peter F. Hamilton
2,055 members
19 reviews
4.1
86
Banksy: Wall and Piece
by Banksy
1,975 members
30 reviews
½ 4.3
87
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough
1,958 members
33 reviews
4
88
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed
1,950 members
84 reviews
½ 4.3
89
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
1,821 members
26 reviews
4.1
90
Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
1,809 members
23 reviews
3.9
91
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Rosamund Stone Zander
1,626 members
34 reviews
3.9
92
Await Your Reply
by Dan Chaon
1,578 members
153 reviews
½ 3.7
93
The narrow road to the Deep North : and other travel sketches
by Matsuo Basho
1,506 members
27 reviews
3.9
94
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh
1,483 members
48 reviews
3.9
95
Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens
1,363 members
21 reviews
4
96
A Dark-Adapted Eye
by Barbara Vine
1,244 members
44 reviews
3.8
97
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable
1,134 members
29 reviews
4.1
98
Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu
by Osamu Tezuka
1,126 members
34 reviews
4
99
The Way of Chuang Tzu
by Thomas Merton
1,109 members
14 reviews
4.1
100
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
by Esther Perel
1,033 members
23 reviews
3.8