1. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (David Chang)
2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (Bill Gates; Bruce Friedrich; Jennifer Doudna)
3. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Arianna Huffington)
6. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (Yuval Levin)
7. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville (Deborah Tannen)
8. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (Cory Booker; Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia)
9. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker (Bill Gates; Bruce Friedrich; Grant Gordon)
10. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
11. Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot (Andrew Sullivan)
12. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown  (Tom Perez)
13. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (Grant Gordon; Jonathan Cohn; Michael Bennet)
14. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (Cory Booker; Angela J. Davis)
15. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (W. Kamau Bell; Keith Ellison)
16. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance (Francis Fukuyama; Ron Brownstein; Kara Swisher)
17. The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (David Chang)
18. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (Bill Gates) (Bill Gates)
19. Orientalism by Edward W. Said (Jim Yong Kim) 
20. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein (Rachel Maddow) 
21. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (Grover Norquist)
22. The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America by Arthur C. Brooks (Michael Needham)
23. The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler (Arianna Huffington)
24. A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
25. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine of Hippo (Andrew Sullivan)
26. The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4) by T.H. White  (Moby)
27. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (Jessica Valenti; Melissa Bell)
28. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay  (Jessica Valenti)
29. The Quest For Community: A Study In The Ethics Of Order And Freedom (Ics Series In Self Governance) by Robert A. Nisbet (Yuval Levin)
30. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1) by Steven D. Levitt (Trevor Noah)
31. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer (Bruce Friedrich)
32. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (W. Kamau Bell)
33. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Cory Booker, Ta-Nehisi Coates)
34. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates  (Cory Booker)
35. The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi (Cory Booker)
36. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande (David Chang)
37. Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen (Jim Yong Kim) 
38. The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh (Jim Yong Kim) 
39. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Rachel Maddow)
40. Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam by Gordon M. Goldstein (Rachel Maddow) 
41. Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom by Ryan T. Anderson (Michael Needham)
42. The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs – and Who Will Take It by Sean Trende (Michael Needham)
43. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer (Neera Tanden)
44. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu (Neera Tanden)
45. The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek (Grover Norquist)
46. Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa, #1) by Steven Saylor (Grover Norquist)
47. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen (Bruce Friedrich)
48. Influence: Science and Practice: The Comic by Robert B. Cialdini (Bruce Friedrich)
49. The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith (Robert Reich)
50. The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith (Robert Reich)
51. The Theory Of The Leisure Class: An Economic Study Of Institutions by Thorstein Veblen (Robert Reich)
52. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell  (Andrew Sullivan) 
53. The Essays: A Selection by Michel de Montaigne (Andrew Sullivan)
54. Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World by Daniel Yankelovich (Alice Rivlin)
55. The Magic of Dialogue by Daniel Yankelovich (Alice Rivlin)
56. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon (Alice Rivlin)
57. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell (Tom Perez)
58. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Tom Perez)
59. The Journals of John Cheever by John Cheever  (Moby)
60. Kabir: Ecstatic Poems by Kabir  (Moby)
61. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano  (Jessica Valenti)
62. Patrimony by Philip Roth (Jesse Eisenberg)
63. Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco (Jesse Eisenberg)
64. Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian F. Haney-Lopez (Heather McGhee)
65. Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America by Tamara Draut (Heather McGhee)
66. Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements by Adrienne Maree Brown (Heather McGhee)
67. The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Businessby Clayton M. Christensen (Ben Thompson)
68. The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick (Ben Thompson)
69. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam (Hillary Clinton; Francis Fukuyama)
70. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah (Hillary Clinton) 
71. Specialization and Trade: A Re-introduction to Economics by Arnold Kling
72. Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic by Esther Perel (Trevor Noah)
73. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (Atul Gawande)
74. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol 1 by Arthur Conan Doyle  (Atul Gawande)
75. My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story by Abraham Verghese (Atul Gawande)
76. And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman (Melissa Bell)
77. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch (Grant Gordon)
78. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks (Jessica Valenti)
79. Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics by Marianne A. Ferber (Neera Tanden)
80. American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power by John Kenneth Galbraith (Robert Reich)
81. The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology by Lee Ross  (Malcolm Gladwell)
82. Brown Face Big Master by Joyce Gladwell (Malcolm Gladwell)
83. Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War by Eliot A. Cohen (Malcolm Gladwell)
84. King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick (W. Kamau Bell)
85. Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets by Robert Kuttner (Arlie Hochschild)
86. Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff (Arlie Hochschild)
87. A Prayer for the City by H.G. Bissinger (Dr. Leana Wen)
88. Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila (Dr. Leana Wen)
89. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (Molly Ball)
90. My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels #1) by Elena Ferrante (Molly Ball)
91. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray (Francis Fukuyama; JD Vance)
92. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas (Jonathan Cohn)
93. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry by Paul Starr  (Jonathan Cohn)
94. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes  (Joseph Stiglitz)
95. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi (Joseph Stiglitz)
96. Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology by Gregory Bateson (Deborah Tannen)
97. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph Alois Schumpeter (David Frum)
98. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze (David Frum)
99. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy by Kenneth Pomeranz (David Frum)
100. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Yuval Harari)
101. The Pearl by John Steinbeck (Jose Andres)
102. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
103. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (Kara Swisher)
104. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (Avik Roy)
105. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Eddie Izzard)
106. ¡Adiós, Cordera! by Leopoldo Alas (Jose Andres)
107. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (Jose Andres)
108. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch (Patrick Collison)
109. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop (Patrick Collison)
110. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming (Patrick Collison)
111. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
112. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
113. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (Tim Wu)
114. The Trial by Franz Kafka (Tim Wu)
115. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Tim Wu)
116. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev (Evelyn Farkas)
117. Endgame: The Betrayal And Fall Of Srebrenica, Europe’s Worst Massacre Since World War IIby David Rohde (Evelyn Farkas)
118. What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer (Ezra Klein; Joe Trippi)
119. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (Ezra Klein)
120. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (Elizabeth Kolbert)
121. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Elizabeth Kolbert)
122. The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell (Elizabeth Kolbert)
123. The End of Nature by Bill McKibben (Elizabeth Kolbert)
124. Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown (Keith Ellison)
125. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Keith Ellison)
126. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Keith Ellison; Elizabeth Warren; Michael Bennet)
127. Who Stole the American Dream? Can We Get It Back? by Hedrick Smith (Keith Ellison)
128. Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman (Keith Ellison)
129. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson (JD Vance )
130. The English and their History by Robert Tombs (JD Vance )
131. Why We Lost the ERA by Jane J. Mansbridge(Jennifer Lawless)
132. My Life by Bill Clinton (Jennifer Lawless; Dr. Leana Wen)
133. Running from Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics by Jennifer L. Lawless
134. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (Kara Swisher)
135. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Kara Swisher)
136. Settle for More by Megyn Kelly (Kara Swisher)
137. The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power by Leah Wright Rigueur (Avik Roy)
138. Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays by Michael Oakeshott (Avik Roy)
139. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Elizabeth Drew)
140. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Yuval Harari)
141. Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes by Frans de Waal (Yuval Harari)
142. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder (Cecile Richards)
143. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan (Cecile Richards)
144. Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas  (Denis McDonough)
145. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill (Tyler Cowen)
146. Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit (Tyler Cowen)
147. Business Cycles and Equilibrium by Fischer Black (Tyler Cowen)
148. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.  (Chris Hayes)
149. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields  (Chris Hayes)
150. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy  (Chris Hayes)
151. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen (Ezra Klein; Thomas Mann)
152. Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol  (G. Willow Wilson)
153. The Color of Earth (Color Trilogy, #1) by Kim Dong Hwa  (G. Willow Wilson)
154. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel  (G. Willow Wilson)
155. A Revolution Undone: Egypt’s Road Beyond Revolt by H.A. Hellyer  (G. Willow Wilson)
156. Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, #1) by Saladin Ahmed  (G. Willow Wilson)
157. The Meccan Revelations, volume I by Ibn Arabi  (G. Willow Wilson)
158. The Meccan Revelations, Volume II by Ibn Arabi (G. Willow Wilson)
159. You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier (Cal Newport)
160. Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier (Cal Newport)
161. Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas Rushkoff (Cal Newport)
162. $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin (Elizabeth Warren)
163. Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It by David Goldhill (Bill Gurley)
164. The Singapore Miracle – Myth & Reality by Rodney King (Bill Gurley)
165. Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan (Bill Gurley)
166. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore (Bill Gurley)
167. The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Businessby Clayton M. Christensen (Bill Gurley)
168. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight (Bill Gurley)
169. Everything in Its Path by Kai Theodor Erikson (Anna Sale)
170. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher (Anna Sale)
171. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Bryan Stevenson)
172. Gilead (Gilead, #1) by Marilynne Robinson (Bryan Stevenson)
173. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Bryan Stevenson)
174. The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill (Yascha Mounk)
175. A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul (Yascha Mounk)
176. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Yascha Mounk)v
177. The Philosophy of ‘as If ‘ by Hans Vaihinger (Kwame Anthony Appiah)
178. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe (Kwame Anthony Appiah)(Kwame Anthony Appiah)
179. The Complete Poems by Thomas Hardy (Kwame Anthony Appiah)
180. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (Masha Gessen)
181. I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years by Victor Klemperer (Masha Gessen)
182. Middlemarch by George Eliot (Zephyr Teachout)
183. The Gilded Age by Mark Twain (Zephyr Teachout)
184. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (Molly Ball; Zephyr Teachout)
185. Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy by Sheldon Whitehouse (Al Franken)
186. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough (Al Franken)
187. Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old by Jean L. Briggs (danah boyd)
188. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt (danah boyd)
189. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, #2) by Lewis Carroll (Eddie Izzard)
190. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken (Eddie Izzard)
191. Holy Bible: New International Version by Anonymous (Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia)
192. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck (Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia)
193. Language, Truth, and Logic by A.J. Ayer (Julia Galef)
194. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott (Julia Galef)
195. The Robot’s Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin by Keith E. Stanovich (Julia Galef)
196. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (Masha Gessen)
197. The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce (Michael Bennet)
198. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs (Angela J. Davis)
199. Finite and Infinite Games a Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse
200. My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (Angela J. Davis)
201. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud (Angela Nagle)
202. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture by Whitney Phillips (Angela Nagle)
203. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov  (Angela Nagle)
204. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Dan Rather)
205. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) by Cormac McCarthy (Dan Rather)
206. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell  (David Remnick)
207. Middlemarch by George Eliot (David Remnick)
208. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
209. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
210. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
211. Greater than Ever: New York’s Big Comeback by Daniel Doctoroff (Reihan Salam)
212. How Change Happens—Or Doesn’t: The Politics of Us Public Policy by Elaine C. Kamarck (Reihan Salam)
213. The British Dream: Success and Failure in Immigration Since the War by David Goodhart (Reihan Salam)
214. One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported by E.J. Dionne Jr. (Thomas Mann, Norman Ornstein)
215. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 by William E. Leuchtenburg (E.J. Dionne) 
216. Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.  (E.J. Dionne) 
217. The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government by Fergus M. Bordewich  (Norman Ornstein)
218. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman  (Thomas Mann)
219. The Double Helix by James D. Watson  (Jennifer Doudna)
220. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes  (Jennifer Doudna)
221. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather  (James Wallner)
222. Democracy and Leadership by Irving Babbitt  (James Wallner)
223. Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison by James Madison  (James Wallner)
224. Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline by Jennifer Carlson (Evan Osnos)
225. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Evan Osnos)
226. The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression by James Mann (Evan Osnos)
227. Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes (Ai-jen Poo)
228. My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem (Ai-jen Poo)
229. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande (Ai-jen Poo)
230. Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer (Rebecca Traister)
231. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper (Rebecca Traister)
232. One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Women’s Suffrage Movement by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler (Rebecca Traister)
233. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches by Erwin Schrödinger (Robert Wright)
234. Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana (Robert Wright)
235. What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula (Robert Wright)
236. Impeachment: A Handbook by Charles L. Black Jr.  (Ezra Klein)
237. Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide by Cass R. Sunstein  (Ezra Klein)
238. Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals by Jeremy McCarter  (Ezra Klein)
239. Constitutional Law Stories by Michael C. Dorf (Sean Rameswaram) 
240. The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3) by Isaac Asimov  (Paul Krugman)
241. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume  (Paul Krugman)
242. Plagues and Peoples by William Hardy McNeill  (Paul Krugman)
243. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson  (Joe Trippi)
244. Grant by Ron Chernow  (Joe Trippi)
245. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

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