Books recommended by Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens was a renowned author and public intellectual known for his polemical essays, which frequently challenged traditional morality and politics. As a prominent figure in modern discourse, he is often associated with the liberal intelligentsia. His writings were characterized by their incisive critique of power structures and their unflinching advocacy for individual freedom.
The books recommended are notable for their distinctive writing styles, which range from philosophical introspection to historical narrative. They often explore complex themes such as morality, free will, and the human condition, frequently employing a conversational tone that engages readers in a dialogue with the author’s ideas.
- Holy Bible: (by -). Recommended by A.J. Jacobs , Barack Obama , Caterina Fake , Hillary Clinton , Kevin Kelly , Laird Hamilton , Neil deGrasse Tyson , Peter Thiel , Ricardo Semler , Ryan Flaherty , Tim Draper , Walter Isaacson , Wim Hof , Christopher Hitchens , Cathie Wood , Kanye West , Maya Angelou , Russell Moore , Winston Churchill
- Crime and Punishment: (by Fyodor Dostoevsky). Recommended by Esther Perel , Jordan Peterson , Larry King , PewDiePie , Christopher Hitchens , Jim Cramer , Ernest Hemingway , Jim Carrey , Brian Dean , Jack Edwards
- Lincoln: A Novel (by Gore Vidal). Recommended by David Sabatini , Christopher Hitchens , Tom Keene
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: (by Ernest Hemingway). Recommended by Jordan Peterson , Josh Waitzkin , Christopher Hitchens , Brian Dean
- Doctor Zhivago: (by Boris Pasternak). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Winston Churchill
- The Bell Jar: A Novel (by Sylvia Plath). Recommended by Chloë Grace Moretz , Christopher Hitchens
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: (by Alexander Solzhenitsyn). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens , Winston Churchill
- Whatever: (by Michel Houellebecq). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Fireflies: (by Shiva Naipaul). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Cruiser: (by Warren Tute). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Temptation of Jack Orkney: and Other Stories (by Doris Lessing). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Borges: A Life (by Edwin Williamson). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism (by Stephen Schwartz). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Cain: A Mystery (by Lord Byron). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism (by Conor Cruise O'Brien). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind (by Mahdi Obeidi). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Fall of Berlin 1945: (by Antony Beevor). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion (by Paul Scott). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- A Dream of John Ball: Illustrated (by William Morris). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Hanged by the Neck: (by Arthur Koestler). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- How Green Was My Valley: How Green Was My Valley, Book 1 (by Richard Llewellyn). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen & Unconditional Surrender (by Evelyn Waugh). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Bridge on the Drina: (by Ivo Andric). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Culture of Terrorism: (by Noam Chomsky). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Peace And Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process (by Edward W. Said). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Portrait in Sepia: Daughter Of Fortune, Book 2 (by Isabel Allende). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend (by Thomas Mann). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Broken Compass: (by Peter Hitchens). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Platform: (by Michel Houellebecq). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Money: A Suicide Note (by Martin Amis). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Monument: Art and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq (by Kanan Makiya). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- On the Beach: (by Nevil Shute). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- History of the Conquest of Mexico: (by William H. Prescott). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- C.L.R. James: The Artist As Revolutionary (by Paul Buhle). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Judgment Of Paris: (by Gore Vidal). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- A Long Long Way: Dunne Family, Book 3 (by Sebastian Barry). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Bend Sinister: (by Vladimir Nabokov). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Jaguar Smile: (by Salman Rushdie). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (by Peter Singer). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Yellow Dog: (by Martin Amis). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution (by Theodore Draper). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Principia Mathematica: Volume One (by Bertrand Russell). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Grass Is Singing: A Novel (by Doris Lessing). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton: (by G. K. Chesterton). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam (by Ayaan Hirsi Ali). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Minty Alley: (by C.L.R. James). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Girl, 20: (by Kingsley Amis). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Why I Am Not A Muslim: (by Ibn Warraq). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Strange Death of Liberal England: (by George Dangerfield). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Southern California: An Island on the Land (by Carey McWilliams). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Case of Comrade Tulayev: (by Victor Serge). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- They Fought Back: The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe (by Yuri Suhl). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Day Stalin Died: (by Doris Lessing). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India (by Joseph Lelyveld). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940 (by Isaac Deutscher). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Benn Diaries: The Definitive Collection (by Tony Benn). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Nothing to Be Frightened Of: (by Julian Barnes). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Book of Evidence: (by John Banville). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941 (by Victor Klemperer). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933 (by Amos Elon). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Selling Hitler: The Extraordinary Story of the Con Job of the Century (by Robert Harris). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Enigma of Arrival: (by V. S. Naipaul). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement (by Anthony Powell). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture (by Raphael Samuel). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s (by Alan M. Wald). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Holidays in Hell: (by P. J. O'Rourke). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Adventures of Augie March: (by Saul Bellow). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (by Theodor Adorno). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Coming Up for Air: (by George Orwell). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Importance of Being Earnest: (by Oscar Wilde). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: (by Karl Marx). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Watching the Door: Drinking Up, Getting Down, and Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast (by Kevin Myers). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Terminal Moraine: (by James Fenton). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Beyond a Boundary: (by C.L.R. James). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Silent Angel: (by Heinrich Böll). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- What Is History?: (by Edward Hallet Carr). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Savage God: (by A. Alvarez). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- In Between the Sheets: (by Ian McEwan). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Lady Chatterley's Lover: (by D.H. Lawrence). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Company Of Critics: Social Criticsm And Political Commitment In The Twentieth Century (by Michael Walzer). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The File: (by Penn Kimball). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 (by Grigoris Balakian). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Pale Fire: (by Vladimir Nabokov). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Imperialism at Bay: The United States and the Decolonization of the British Empire, 1941-1945 (by William Roger Louis). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Collected Poems: (by Robert Conquest). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Maps for Lost Lovers: (by Nadeem Aslam). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town (by Christopher de Bellaigue). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 (by Conor Cruise O'Brien). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Mask of Anarchy: (by Percy Bysshe Shelley). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Power: A Radical View (by Steven Lukes). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement (by Anthony Powell). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Daniel Deronda: (by George Eliot). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism: (by Bertrand Russell). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- A Clergyman's Daughter: (by George Orwell). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Anarchist Portraits: (by Paul Avrich). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Decline and Fall: (by Evelyn Waugh). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America (by E. Digby Baltzell). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Ship: (by C. S. Forester). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Snow: (by Orhan Pamuk). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (by Edward W. Said). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Complete Poems by Wilfred Owen: (by Wilfred Owen). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (by Mike Davis). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Complete Short Stories of Saki: (by H. H. Munro). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Memoirs of a Revolutionary: (by Victor Serge). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism (by Ibn Warraq). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Humboldt's Gift: (by Saul Bellow). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Bitter Lemons: (by Lawrence Durrell). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Infidel: (by Ayaan Hirsi Ali). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Men in Prison: (by Victor Serge). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Covenant with Death: (by Mark Hebden). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Great Terror: A Reassessment (by Robert Conquest). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign (by Leon Wolff). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke (by Conor Cruise O'Brien). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Diaries: (by George Orwell). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White (by Joseph Lelyveld). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (by Ian Kershaw). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Our Man in Havana: (by Graham Greene). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Jefferson and His Time: (by Dumas Malone). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century (by Ruth Harris). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Victorian England: Portrait of an Age (by G.M. Young). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Satanic Verses: A Novel (by Salman Rushdie). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The God of Small Things: A Novel (by Arundhati Roy). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories (by Gregor Von Rezzori). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- My Name Is Red: (by Orhan Pamuk). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Atomised: (by Michel Houellebecq). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Tom Paine: A Political Life (by John Keane). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: (by Rebecca West). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Persian Boy: Alexander the Great, Book 2 (by Mary Renault). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Selected Poems: (by James Fenton). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Clinton Tapes: Conversations with a President, 1993 - 2001 (by Taylor Branch). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Wind Blows Away Our Words: (by Doris Lessing). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Constitutional Law: Cases-Comments-Questions (by William B. Lockhart). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders - The Golden Age - The Breakdown (by Leszek Kolakowski). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Donkeys: (by Alan Clark). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Antigone: (by Sophocles). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (by Taylor Branch). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Greenmantle: Richard Hannay, Book 2 (by John Buchan). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Redundancy of Courage: (by Timothy Mo). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Plague: (by Albert Camus). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Lucky Jim: (by Kingsley Amis). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Martyr's Day: Chronicle of a Small War (by Michael Kelly). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- First Love, Last Rites: (by Ian McEwan). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Moor's Last Sigh: (by Salman Rushdie). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The House of the Spirits: (by Isabel Allende). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy (by Matthew Scully). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Wolf Hall: (by Hilary Mantel). Recommended by Barack Obama , Christopher Hitchens
- On Chesil Beach: (by Ian McEwan). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying: (by George Orwell). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Mackerel Plaza: A Novel (by Peter De Vries). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-59 (by Victor Klemperer). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Paranoid Style in American Politics: (by Richard Hofstadter). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Faggots: (by Larry Kramer). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Persuasion: (by Jane Austen). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number: (by Jacobo Timerman). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929 (by Isaac Deutscher). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (by John Ralston Saul). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Kim: (by Rudyard Kipling). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Complete Poems: (by Philip Larkin). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Language and Silence: (by George Steiner). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Tortilla Flat: (by John Steinbeck). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Shameful Act: (by Taner Akçam). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (by Patrick French). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Children in Exile: (by James Fenton). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Cruel Sea: (by Nicholas Monsarrat). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World (by Kanan Makiya). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- How Democracies Perish: (by Jean-Francois Revel). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Adolf Hitler My Part in His Downfall: War (and Peace) Memoirs, Book 1 (by Spike Milligan). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- 40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin®, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania (by Matthew Chapman). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Darkness at Noon: A Novel (by Arthur Koestler). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921 (by Isaac Deutscher). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City (by Norman Davies). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Scenes of Clerical Life: (by George Eliot). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq (by Kanan Makiya). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Meaning of Hitler: (by Sebastian Haffner). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Serious Concerns: (by Wendy Cope). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Rachel Papers: (by Martin Amis). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Bosnia: A Short History (by Noel Malcolm). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness (by Guy Maclean Rogers). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (by Azar Nafisi). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery (by John Chester Miller). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Nightfrost in Prague: (by Zdenek Mlynar). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (by Diarmaid MacCulloch). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Monkey King: (by Timothy Mo). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945 (by Victor Klemperer). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- This Was the Old Chief's Country: Collected African Stories (by Doris Lessing). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- An Opposing Man: (by Ernst Fischer). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Sour Sweet: (by Timothy Mo). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- By Any Means Necessary: Trials And Tribulations of the Making of Malcolm X (by Spike Lee). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Birth of Our Power: (by Victor Serge). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Writers and Politics: (by Conor Cruise O'Brien). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- An Insular Possesion: (by Timothy Mo). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel (by Peter De Vries). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq (by Kenneth M. Pollack). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Middlemarch: (by George Eliot). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (by Mark Steyn). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens
- Burr: A Novel (by Gore Vidal). Recommended by David Sabatini , Christopher Hitchens
- Collected Poems: (by W. H. Auden). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens , Douglas Murray
- Reflections on the Revolution in France: (by Edmund Burke). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens , Douglas Murray
- 1984: (by George Orwell). Recommended by Emma Watson , J. Cole , Jordan Peterson , Matt Mullenweg , Noam Chomsky , Richard Branson , Tristan Harris , Christopher Hitchens , Sahil Lavingia , Jenn Im , Winston Churchill , Diane Rehm , Brad Delong
- Hons and Rebels: (by Jessica Mitford). Recommended by J.K. Rowling , Christopher Hitchens
- Shame: A Novel (by Salman Rushdie). Recommended by Richa Chadha , Christopher Hitchens
- The Captive Mind: (by Czeslaw Milosz). Recommended by Marc Andreessen , Christopher Hitchens
- Daughter of Fortune: Daughter Of Fortune, Book 1 (by Isabel Allende). Recommended by Oprah Winfrey , Christopher Hitchens
- All Quiet on the Western Front: (by Erich Maria Remarque). Recommended by Donald Trump , Christopher Hitchens , Dan Carlin
- Orientalism: (by Edward W. Said). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens , Brad Delong
- The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (by C.L.R. James). Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Christopher Hitchens
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (by Sam Harris). Recommended by Dr. Andrew Weil , Christopher Hitchens
- Brideshead Revisited: (by Evelyn Waugh). Recommended by Charles Koch , Christopher Hitchens
- The Collected Works of P. G. Wodehouse: (by PG Wodehouse). Recommended by J.K. Rowling , Paul Graham , Christopher Hitchens
- The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats: (by W. B. Yeats). Recommended by Tim O’Reilly , Christopher Hitchens
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: (by Harriet Beecher Stowe). Recommended by George Raveling , Christopher Hitchens
- Watership Down: A Novel (by Richard Adams). Recommended by Christopher Hitchens , Andrew Wilkow
- Animal Farm: (by George Orwell). Recommended by Daniel Pink , J. Cole , Jordan Peterson , Lex Fridman , Vlad Tenev , Whitney Cummings , Christopher Hitchens , Sahil Lavingia
- Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 (by Taylor Branch). Recommended by Ryan Holiday , Christopher Hitchens
- In Search of Lost Time: (by Marcel Proust). Recommended by Alain de Botton , Frank Blake , Christopher Hitchens
- Ulysses: (by James Joyce). Recommended by Debbie Millman , Neil Strauss , Christopher Hitchens , Ernest Hemingway
- War And Peace: (by Leo Tolstoy). Recommended by Jordan Peterson , Larry King , Christopher Hitchens , Mark Manson , Ernest Hemingway , Nelson Mandela
- Homage to Catalonia: (by George Orwell). Recommended by Ben Shapiro , Marc Andreessen , Christopher Hitchens , Brad Delong
- The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel (by Tom Wolfe). Recommended by Charles Koch , Ev Williams , Christopher Hitchens
- The Grapes of Wrath: (by John Steinbeck). Recommended by Jordan Peterson , Michelle Obama , Christopher Hitchens , Nelson Mandela
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 (by Taylor Branch). Recommended by Barack Obama , Cory Booker , Ryan Holiday , Christopher Hitchens
- A Tale of Two Cities: (by Charles Dickens). Recommended by Amelia Boone , J.K. Rowling , Oprah Winfrey , Christopher Hitchens , Mahatma Gandhi , Maya Angelou
- The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works (by William Shakespeare). Recommended by Barack Obama , J.K. Rowling , Ricardo Semler , Shah Rukh Khan , Stewart Brand , Christopher Hitchens , Fred Wilson , Mark Twain
- Brave New World: (by Aldous Huxley). Recommended by Jordan Peterson , Matt Mullenweg , Sam Altman , Stewart Brand , Tristan Harris , Yuval Noah Harari , PewDiePie , Christopher Hitchens , Sahil Lavingia , Winston Churchill
- The Great Gatsby: (by F. Scott Fitzgerald). Recommended by Bill Gates , Daniel Pink , Ev Williams , Neil deGrasse Tyson , Ryan Holiday , Ta-Nehisi Coates , Taylor Swift , Christopher Hitchens , Jim Carrey
- One Hundred Years of Solitude: (by Gabriel Garcia Marquez). Recommended by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Cal Fussman , Neil Strauss , Oprah Winfrey , Richard Branson , Christopher Hitchens , Fred Wilson , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Shashi Tharoor