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A collection of reading lists

Richard Branson

  • Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
  • Tales of the Unexpected - Roald Dahl
  • George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • Oh, The PLace You'll Go - Dr. Suess
  • Peter Pan - JM Barrie
  • The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
  • Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stephenson
  • The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
  • Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
  • 1984 - George Orwell
  • Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  • The Quiet American - Graham Greene
  • The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
  • Shantaram - Gregory Roberts
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World - Tracy Kidder
  • The Outermost House - Henry Beston
  • Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang
  • Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege - Antony Beevor
  • The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
  • In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
  • Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
  • Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela - Nelson Mandela
  • Mao: The Unknown Story - Jung Chang
  • A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety - Jimmy Carter
  • No Future Without Forgiveness - Desmond Tutu
  • Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobel
  • Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage - Richard Stengel
  • Limitless: Leadership That Endures - Ajaz Ahmed
  • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World - Adam Grant
  • If I Could Tell You Just One Thing: 50 of the world's most remarkable people pass on their best piece of advice - Richard Reed
  • Remote: Office Not Required - Jason Fried
  • Start With Why - Simon Sinek
  • 101 Reasons to Get Out of Bed - Natasha Milne
  • Letters to a Stranger: A publishing project in aid of MIND
  • Self Belief: The Vision - Jamal Edwards
  • The Meaning of the 21st Century - James Martin
  • Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill - Matthieu Ricard
  • A Time for New Dreams - Ben Okri
  • A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
  • The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution - Frank White
  • Beyond The Blue - Jim Campbell
  • Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think - Peter Diamandis
  • Cosmos - Carl Sagan
  • The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth - Tim Flannery
  • Big World, Small Planet - Johan Rockström and Mattias Klum
  • An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It - Al Gore
  • Necker: A Virgin Island - Russell James
  • Lost Ocean - Johanna Basford
  • Arctica: The Vanishing North - Sebastian Copeland
  • In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin
  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer
  • The World Without Us - Weisman
  • In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules - Stacy Perman
  • In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - Michael Pollan
  • Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser
  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson
  • Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
  • Ending the War on Drugs

Source

Ernest Hemingway

  • The Common Reader - Virginia Woolf
  • House Divided - Ben Ames Williams
  • The Republic - Charles Beard
  • Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia - Eugene Tarle
  • How Young You Look - Peggy Wood
  • African Hunting - William Charles Baldwin
  • Collected Poems - T.S. Eliot
  • Ulysses - James Joyce
  • Dubliners - James Joyce
  • A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man - James Joyce
  • King Lea - Shakespeare
  • The Open Boat and Other Stories - Stephen Crane
  • The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
  • Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  • Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
  • The Red and the Black - Stendahl
  • Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  • Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
  • Hail and Farewell - George Moore
  • The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  • Far Away and Long Ago - W. H. Hudson
  • The America - Henry James
  • Complete Short Stories - Henry James
  • Mr. Midshipman Easy - Frederick Marryat
  • Frank Mildmay - Frederick Marryat
  • Peter Simple - Frederick Marryat
  • Complete Works - Rudyard Kipling
  • Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
  • Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • Autobiographies - W. B. Yeats
  • A Sportsman’s Sketches - Ivan Turgenev
  • Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
  • Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
  • Queen Margot - Alexandre Dumas
  • In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

Source

Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • The Bible
  • The System of the World - Isaac Newton
  • On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
  • Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  • The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
  • The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
  • The Art of War - Sun Tzu
  • The Prince - Machiavelli

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