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
67,930 members
1,017 reviews
4.2
7 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, kara.shamy, baconshire, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
2
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
17,335 members
224 reviews
4.1
6 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, mspixieears, pschlik, ManWithAnAgenda
3
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
39,042 members
875 reviews
4.2
5 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, baconshire, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
10,744 members
286 reviews
½ 4.5
5 Members
hipdeep, cej1027, debbielovesdogs, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
5
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
15,303 members
290 reviews
4
4 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, baconshire
6
I Want My Hat Back
by Jon Klassen
3,945 members
285 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
pateke, LoriAnnK, cej1027
7
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
27,694 members
407 reviews
4.1
3 Members
kara.shamy, baconshire, pschlik
8
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
6,122 members
37 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
9
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
4,974 members
18 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
10
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
25,972 members
418 reviews
3.9
2 Members
hipdeep, mspixieears
11
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
45,568 members
1,125 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, baconshire,ManWithAnAgenda
12
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,267 members
437 reviews
4.1
3 Members
ahef1963, baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda
13
The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2,215 members
76 reviews
4.1
2 Members
debbielovesdogs, kara.shamy
14
Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
4,771 members
228 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
16
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
by Richard Bach
5,099 members
84 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Emmay
17
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
11,402 members
441 reviews
4.2
2 Members
bplas, ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
1,323 members
23 reviews
3.9
2 Members
LoriAnnK, kara.shamy
19
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
8,532 members
412 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, mspixieears
20
Carry On, Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
3,906 members
83 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
21
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
9,313 members
392 reviews
4.2
2 Members
mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
22
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,259 members
635 reviews
4.1
3 Members
kara.shamy, baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027
23
Dune
by Frank Herbert
50,624 members
806 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda
24
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
29,067 members
660 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
25
Cheaper by the Dozen
by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.
5,358 members
90 reviews
4
2 Members
cej1027, debbielovesdogs
26
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
10,684 members
389 reviews
3.8
2 Members
debbielovesdogs, baconshire
27
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud
5,758 members
107 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda
28
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
21,169 members
352 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
29
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
6,342 members
92 reviews
4
Member
pschlik
30
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
by Roddy Doyle
4,323 members
84 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
cej1027
31
This Is a Book
by Demetri Martin
646 members
32 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
32
Behind the Kitchen Door
by Saru Jayaraman
176 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
bplas
33
Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
3,613 members
42 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
34
All My Friends Are Dead
by Avery Monsen
1,328 members
53 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
35
This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
3,268 members
125 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
kara.shamy
36
Go the Fuck to Sleep
by Adam Mansbach
2,287 members
154 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
37
The Company
by Robert Littell
1,416 members
28 reviews
4
Member
LoriAnnK
38
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
by Alison Bechdel
2,279 members
109 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
39
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
by Tanner Colby
154 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
LoriAnnK
40
Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
9,436 members
758 reviews
3.8
Member
cej1027
42
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
10,276 members
337 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
43
Everyone Poops
by Tarō Gomi
2,440 members
82 reviews
4
Member
cej1027
44
Wonder
by R. J. Palacio
17,842 members
1,355 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
debbielovesdogs
45
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
10,998 members
213 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
46
Horns
by Joe Hill
5,195 members
311 reviews
3.8
Member
kara.shamy
47
The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed Set: Griffin & Sabine/Sabine's Notebook/The Golden Mean
by Nick Bantock
822 members
12 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
48
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30,935 members
1,108 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
49
The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
8,695 members
72 reviews
4.2
Member
baconshire
50
John Adams
by David McCullough
15,433 members
214 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
kara.shamy
51
Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
7,135 members
129 reviews
4.1
Member
baconshire
52
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't
by Nate Silver
3,708 members
93 reviews
3.8
Member
baconshire
53
Mysteries of Winterthurn
by Joyce Carol Oates
368 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
kara.shamy
54
Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald
4,793 members
117 reviews
4.1
Member
kara.shamy
55
City of Glass: The Graphic Novel
by Paul Auster
1,327 members
29 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
56
An Intimate History of Humanity
by Theodore Zeldin
1,128 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
baconshire
57
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
1,901 members
42 reviews
3.9
Member
baconshire
58
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
by Michael Ruhlman
1,389 members
12 reviews
4
Member
baconshire
59
Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness
by Jessica Valenti
169 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
kara.shamy
60
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,650 members
207 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
kara.shamy
61
The Principles of Uncertainty
by Maira Kalman
939 members
34 reviews
4.2
Member
baconshire
62
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
10,425 members
272 reviews
4
63
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
7,759 members
80 reviews
3.9
64
My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
7,743 members
185 reviews
3.8
65
The Player of Games
by Iain M. Banks
7,172 members
224 reviews
4.1
66
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt Vonnegut
6,919 members
62 reviews
3.9
67
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
6,884 members
151 reviews
½ 4.4
68
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
5,949 members
67 reviews
4
69
On a Pale Horse
by Piers Anthony
5,478 members
101 reviews
3.8
70
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by Joshua Foer
4,949 members
147 reviews
3.8
71
The Essential Rumi
by Rumi
4,930 members
35 reviews
½ 4.3
72
The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
4,498 members
374 reviews
½ 4.5
73
On Basilisk Station
by David Weber
4,439 members
125 reviews
3.9
74
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
by Tom Holland
4,220 members
78 reviews
4
75
Press Here
by Hervé Tullet
4,097 members
200 reviews
½ 4.5
76
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
by Pema Chödrön
3,824 members
61 reviews
4.2
77
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
3,736 members
66 reviews
½ 4.5
78
Accelerando
by Charles Stross
3,585 members
129 reviews
½ 3.7
80
Daemon
by Daniel Suarez
2,962 members
162 reviews
3.9
81
Personal History
by Katharine Graham
2,944 members
47 reviews
4
82
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by Richard Louv
2,889 members
45 reviews
4
83
ReWork
by Jason Fried
2,568 members
91 reviews
3.8
84
The Intuitionist: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
2,560 members
74 reviews
½ 3.7
85
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed
2,400 members
88 reviews
4.2
86
The Neutronium Alchemist
by Peter F. Hamilton
2,201 members
19 reviews
4
87
Banksy: Wall and Piece
by Banksy
2,191 members
30 reviews
½ 4.3
88
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough
2,084 members
33 reviews
4
89
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
2,070 members
26 reviews
4.1
90
Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
2,032 members
25 reviews
3.9
91
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Rosamund Stone Zander
1,829 members
33 reviews
3.9
92
Await Your Reply
by Dan Chaon
1,781 members
156 reviews
½ 3.7
93
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
by Matsuo Bashō
1,728 members
31 reviews
4
94
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh
1,609 members
50 reviews
3.9
95
Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens
1,507 members
23 reviews
4
96
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
by Esther Perel
1,363 members
29 reviews
3.8
97
A Dark-Adapted Eye
by Barbara Vine
1,332 members
46 reviews
3.8
98
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable
1,297 members
32 reviews
4.1
99
The Way of Chuang Tzu
by Thomas Merton
1,243 members
14 reviews
4.1
100
Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu
by Osamu Tezuka
1,189 members
35 reviews
4