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
60,570 members
928 reviews
4.2
7 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, kara.shamy, baconshire, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
2
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
15,722 members
207 reviews
4.1
6 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, mspixieears, pschlik, ManWithAnAgenda
3
Good Omens
by Terry Pratchett
35,587 members
798 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, baconshire, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
9,020 members
255 reviews
½ 4.5
5 Members
hipdeep, cej1027, debbielovesdogs, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
5
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
14,150 members
264 reviews
4
4 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, baconshire
6
I Want My Hat Back
by Jon Klassen
3,190 members
268 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
pateke, LoriAnnK, cej1027
7
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
25,463 members
375 reviews
4.1
3 Members
kara.shamy, baconshire, pschlik
8
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
5,551 members
35 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
9
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
4,554 members
15 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
10
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
23,518 members
377 reviews
3.9
2 Members
hipdeep, mspixieears
11
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
41,977 members
1,055 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, baconshire,ManWithAnAgenda
12
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
16,034 members
380 reviews
4.1
3 Members
ahef1963, baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda
13
The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1,926 members
76 reviews
4.1
2 Members
debbielovesdogs, kara.shamy
14
Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
4,565 members
222 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
16
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
by Richard Bach
4,745 members
77 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Emmay
17
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
10,716 members
419 reviews
4.2
2 Members
bplas, ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
1,167 members
22 reviews
3.9
2 Members
LoriAnnK, kara.shamy
19
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
7,915 members
398 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, mspixieears
20
Carry On, Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
3,586 members
72 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
21
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
8,428 members
368 reviews
4.2
2 Members
mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
22
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
32,351 members
563 reviews
4.1
3 Members
kara.shamy, baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027
23
Dune
by Frank Herbert
44,126 members
690 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda
24
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
27,477 members
635 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
25
Cheaper by the Dozen
by Jr. Frank B. Gilbreth
4,861 members
80 reviews
4
2 Members
cej1027, debbielovesdogs
26
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
9,213 members
358 reviews
3.8
2 Members
debbielovesdogs, baconshire
27
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud
5,247 members
97 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda
28
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
19,605 members
326 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
29
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
5,607 members
85 reviews
4
Member
pschlik
30
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
by Roddy Doyle
4,077 members
79 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
cej1027
31
This Is a Book
by Demetri Martin
572 members
31 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
32
Behind the Kitchen Door
by Saru Jayaraman
160 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
bplas
33
Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
3,339 members
40 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
34
All My Friends Are Dead
by Avery Monsen
1,153 members
45 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
35
This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
2,959 members
122 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
kara.shamy
36
Go the F**k to Sleep
by Adam Mansbach
2,006 members
152 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
37
The Company
by Robert Littell
1,307 members
25 reviews
4
Member
LoriAnnK
38
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
by Alison Bechdel
2,024 members
102 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
39
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
by Tanner Colby
136 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
LoriAnnK
40
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
8,498 members
724 reviews
3.8
Member
cej1027
42
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
9,529 members
318 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
43
Everyone Poops
by Tarō Gomi
2,131 members
81 reviews
4
Member
cej1027
44
Wonder
by R. J. Palacio
14,873 members
1,258 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
debbielovesdogs
45
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
10,124 members
186 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
46
Horns
by Joe Hill
4,641 members
293 reviews
3.8
Member
kara.shamy
47
The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed Set: Griffin & Sabine/Sabine's Notebook/The Golden Mean
by Nick Bantock
719 members
11 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
48
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
28,413 members
1,040 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
49
The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
7,974 members
66 reviews
4.2
Member
baconshire
50
John Adams
by David McCullough
14,020 members
203 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
kara.shamy
51
Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
6,343 members
108 reviews
4.1
Member
baconshire
52
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't
by Nate Silver
3,291 members
84 reviews
3.8
Member
baconshire
53
Mysteries of Winterthurn
by Joyce Carol Oates
330 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
kara.shamy
54
Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald
4,262 members
104 reviews
4.1
Member
kara.shamy
55
City of Glass: The Graphic Novel
by Paul Auster
1,247 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
56
An Intimate History of Humanity
by Theodore Zeldin
1,053 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
baconshire
57
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
1,690 members
38 reviews
3.9
Member
baconshire
58
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
by Michael Ruhlman
1,212 members
13 reviews
4
Member
baconshire
59
Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness
by Jessica Valenti
162 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
5,507 members
190 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
kara.shamy
61
The Principles of Uncertainty
by Maira Kalman
876 members
33 reviews
4.2
Member
baconshire
62
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
9,596 members
254 reviews
4
63
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
7,400 members
76 reviews
3.9
64
My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
7,121 members
173 reviews
3.8
65
The Player of Games
by Iain M. Banks
6,589 members
197 reviews
4.1
66
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt Vonnegut
6,406 members
55 reviews
3.9
67
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
5,570 members
140 reviews
½ 4.4
68
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
5,149 members
58 reviews
4
69
On a Pale Horse
by Piers Anthony
5,138 members
92 reviews
3.8
70
The Essential Rumi
by Rumi
4,391 members
32 reviews
½ 4.3
71
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by Joshua Foer
4,378 members
134 reviews
3.8
72
On Basilisk Station
by David Weber
4,145 members
118 reviews
3.9
73
The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
4,074 members
357 reviews
½ 4.5
74
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
by Tom Holland
3,709 members
68 reviews
4
75
Accelerando
by Charles Stross
3,381 members
123 reviews
½ 3.7
76
Press Here
by Hervé Tullet
3,323 members
188 reviews
½ 4.5
77
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
by Pema Chödrön
3,308 members
58 reviews
4.2
78
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
3,056 members
52 reviews
½ 4.6
79
Daemon
by Daniel Suarez
2,745 members
158 reviews
3.9
80
Personal History
by Katharine Graham
2,736 members
45 reviews
4
82
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by Richard Louv
2,617 members
44 reviews
4
83
ReWork
by Jason Fried
2,355 members
84 reviews
3.8
84
The Intuitionist
by Colson Whitehead
2,308 members
70 reviews
½ 3.7
85
The Neutronium Alchemist
by Peter F. Hamilton
2,082 members
19 reviews
4
86
Banksy: Wall and Piece
by Banksy
2,010 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
87
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed
2,005 members
84 reviews
½ 4.3
88
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough
1,968 members
33 reviews
4
89
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
1,857 members
26 reviews
4.1
90
Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
1,844 members
23 reviews
3.9
91
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Rosamund Stone Zander
1,672 members
33 reviews
3.9
92
Await Your Reply
by Dan Chaon
1,590 members
154 reviews
½ 3.7
93
The narrow road to the Deep North : and other travel sketches
by Matsuo Basho
1,526 members
27 reviews
4
94
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh
1,497 members
49 reviews
3.9
95
Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens
1,391 members
22 reviews
4
96
A Dark-Adapted Eye
by Barbara Vine
1,261 members
44 reviews
3.8
97
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable
1,161 members
30 reviews
4.1
98
Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu
by Osamu Tezuka
1,142 members
33 reviews
4
99
The Way of Chuang Tzu
by Thomas Merton
1,138 members
14 reviews
4.1
100
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
by Esther Perel
1,072 members
23 reviews
3.8