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
67,717 members
1,015 reviews
4.2
7 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, kara.shamy, baconshire, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
2
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
17,263 members
224 reviews
4.1
6 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, mspixieears, pschlik, ManWithAnAgenda
3
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
38,917 members
872 reviews
4.2
5 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, baconshire, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
10,689 members
286 reviews
½ 4.5
5 Members
hipdeep, cej1027, debbielovesdogs, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
5
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
15,359 members
289 reviews
4
4 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, baconshire
6
I Want My Hat Back
by Jon Klassen
3,913 members
285 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
pateke, LoriAnnK, cej1027
7
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
27,791 members
408 reviews
4.1
3 Members
kara.shamy, baconshire, pschlik
8
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
6,091 members
37 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
9
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
4,955 members
18 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
10
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
25,909 members
417 reviews
3.9
2 Members
hipdeep, mspixieears
11
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
45,472 members
1,121 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, baconshire,ManWithAnAgenda
12
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,150 members
433 reviews
4.1
3 Members
ahef1963, baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda
13
The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2,205 members
76 reviews
4.1
2 Members
debbielovesdogs, kara.shamy
14
Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
4,763 members
228 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
16
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
by Richard Bach
5,084 members
84 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Emmay
17
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
11,376 members
439 reviews
4.2
2 Members
bplas, ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
1,312 members
23 reviews
3.9
2 Members
LoriAnnK, kara.shamy
19
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
8,536 members
412 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, mspixieears
20
Carry On, Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
3,902 members
84 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
21
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
9,297 members
392 reviews
4.2
2 Members
mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
22
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,139 members
632 reviews
4.1
3 Members
kara.shamy, baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027
23
Dune
by Frank Herbert
50,310 members
802 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda
24
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
29,010 members
660 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
25
Cheaper by the Dozen
by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.
5,350 members
90 reviews
4
2 Members
cej1027, debbielovesdogs
26
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
10,639 members
388 reviews
3.8
2 Members
debbielovesdogs, baconshire
27
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud
5,736 members
107 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda
28
Fight Club: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
21,128 members
353 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
29
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
6,318 members
92 reviews
4
Member
pschlik
30
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
by Roddy Doyle
4,321 members
84 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
cej1027
31
This Is a Book
by Demetri Martin
644 members
32 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
32
Behind the Kitchen Door
by Saru Jayaraman
175 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
bplas
33
Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
3,603 members
42 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
34
All My Friends Are Dead
by Avery Monsen
1,322 members
53 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
35
This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
3,264 members
125 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
kara.shamy
36
Go the Fuck to Sleep
by Adam Mansbach
2,277 members
155 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
37
The Company
by Robert Littell
1,414 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: A Novel
by Robin Sloan
9,405 members
758 reviews
3.8
Member
cej1027
42
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
10,248 members
337 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
43
Everyone Poops
by Tarō Gomi
2,432 members
82 reviews
4
Member
cej1027
44
Wonder
by R. J. Palacio
17,735 members
1,354 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
debbielovesdogs
45
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
10,959 members
213 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
46
Horns
by Joe Hill
5,177 members
312 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
30,843 members
1,104 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
49
The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
8,657 members
72 reviews
4.2
Member
baconshire
50
John Adams
by David McCullough
15,382 members
214 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
kara.shamy
51
Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
7,084 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
3,691 members
93 reviews
3.8
Member
baconshire
53
Mysteries of Winterthurn
by Joyce Carol Oates
367 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
kara.shamy
54
Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald
4,768 members
117 reviews
4.1
Member
kara.shamy
55
City of Glass: The Graphic Novel
by Paul Auster
1,328 members
29 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
56
An Intimate History of Humanity
by Theodore Zeldin
1,123 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
baconshire
57
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
1,894 members
43 reviews
3.9
Member
baconshire
58
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
by Michael Ruhlman
1,383 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
6,605 members
207 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
kara.shamy
61
The Principles of Uncertainty
by Maira Kalman
937 members
34 reviews
4.2
Member
baconshire
62
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
10,393 members
273 reviews
4
63
My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
7,784 members
184 reviews
3.8
64
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
7,742 members
81 reviews
3.9
65
The Player of Games
by Iain M. Banks
7,152 members
224 reviews
4.1
66
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt Vonnegut
6,905 members
62 reviews
3.9
67
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
6,831 members
150 reviews
½ 4.4
68
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
5,914 members
68 reviews
4
69
On a Pale Horse
by Piers Anthony
5,463 members
101 reviews
3.8
70
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by Joshua Foer
4,931 members
146 reviews
3.8
71
The Essential Rumi
by Rumi
4,906 members
35 reviews
½ 4.3
72
The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
4,482 members
373 reviews
½ 4.5
73
On Basilisk Station
by David Weber
4,429 members
125 reviews
3.9
74
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
by Tom Holland
4,190 members
78 reviews
4
75
Press Here
by Hervé Tullet
4,066 members
200 reviews
½ 4.5
76
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
by Pema Chödrön
3,803 members
60 reviews
4.2
77
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
3,720 members
66 reviews
½ 4.5
78
Accelerando
by Charles Stross
3,582 members
129 reviews
½ 3.7
80
Daemon
by Daniel Suarez
2,953 members
161 reviews
3.9
81
Personal History
by Katharine Graham
2,929 members
47 reviews
4
82
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by Richard Louv
2,890 members
45 reviews
4
83
ReWork
by Jason Fried
2,564 members
91 reviews
3.8
84
The Intuitionist: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
2,556 members
74 reviews
½ 3.7
85
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed
2,397 members
88 reviews
4.2
86
The Neutronium Alchemist
by Peter F. Hamilton
2,196 members
19 reviews
4
87
Banksy: Wall and Piece
by Banksy
2,187 members
30 reviews
½ 4.3
88
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough
2,080 members
33 reviews
4
89
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
2,064 members
26 reviews
4.1
90
Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
2,027 members
25 reviews
3.9
91
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Rosamund Stone Zander
1,825 members
33 reviews
3.9
92
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
by Matsuo Bashō
1,724 members
31 reviews
4
93
Await Your Reply
by Dan Chaon
1,660 members
156 reviews
½ 3.7
94
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh
1,608 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
1,356 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
1,293 members
32 reviews
4.1
99
The Way of Chuang Tzu
by Thomas Merton
1,242 members
14 reviews
4.1
100
Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu
by Osamu Tezuka
1,188 members
35 reviews
4