As authorities continue to promote social distancing and shelter in place, our online community is finding a way to make time at home both productive and enriching. One activity the CDC recommends to reduce secondary traumatic stress, is to spend time reading a good book.
As the community shares their bookshelves and reading lists online, we pulled over 20 tweets and threads of book suggestions from writers, entrepreneurs, authors, designers, and everyday people.
Here is a master list of 100 books to read in quarantine:
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Biography
1. Shoe Dog by. Phil Knight
2. Elon Musk by. Ashlee Vance
3. The Everything Store by. Brad Stone
4. Fighting for Space by. Amy Shira Teitel
5. The Right Stuff by. Tom Wolfe
6. Becoming by. Michelle Obama
7. Mamba Mentality by. Kobe Bryant
8. Born a Crime by. Trevor Noah
9. Rise of the Rocket Girls by. Nathalia Holt
10. The Glass Universe by. Dava Sobel
Business
11. The Success Equation by. Michael J. Mauboussin
12. Driving Digital Strategy by. Sunil Gupta
13. Perspective on McKinsey & Company by. Marvin Bower
14. How to Win Friends and Influence People by. Dale Carnegie
15. Start with Why by. Simon Sinek
16. Emotional Intelligence by. Daniel Goleman
17. The Intelligent Investor by. Benjamin Graham
18. Zero to One by. Peter Thiel
19. The Lean Startup by. Eric Ries
20. Superforecasting by. Philip E. Tetlock
Science & Technology
21. Sapiens by. Yuval Noah Harari
22. The Fabric of Reality by. David Deutsch
23. The Inevitable by. Kevin Kelly
24. The Beginning of Infinity by. David Deutsch
25. Dawn of the Code War by. John P. Carlin
26. Cult of the Dead Cow by. Joseph Menn
27. The Hacker and the State by. Ben Buchanan
28. A Short History of Nearly Everything by. Bill Bryson
29. Packing for Mars by. Mary Roach
30. The Grand Design by. Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Self-help
31. The Power of Habit by. Charles Duhigg
32. The Art of Gathering by. Bernadette Dunne
33. Reboot by. Jerry Colonna
34. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck by. Mark Manson
35. Atomic Habits by. James Clear
36. 12 Rules for Life by. Jordan B. Peterson
37. Stillness Is the Key by. Ryan Holiday
38. The Obstacle Is the Way by. Ryan Holiday
39. GRIT by. Angela Duckworth
40. The Power of Now by. Eckhart Tolle
Philosophy
41. Man’s Search For Meaning by. Viktor E. Frankl
42. The Consolations of Philosophy by. Alain De Botton
43. The Essential Plato by. Plato
44. Tyranny of Virtue by. Robert Boyers
45. Striking Thoughts by. Bruce Lee
46. Letters From a Stoic by. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
47. Beyond Good and Evil by. Friedrich Nietzsche
48. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by. Peter Bevelin
49. Siddhartha by. Hermann Hesse
50. Awareness by. Anthony De Mello
Design
51. The Creative Habit by. Twyla Tharp
52. Proust was a Neuroscientist by. Jonah Lehrer
53. The Reflective Practitioner by. Donald A. Schon
54. Where Good Ideas Come From by. Steven Johnson
55. Metaphors We Live By by. George Lakoff
56. The Accidental Creative by. Todd Henry
57. Creative Confidence by. Tom Kelley and David Kelley
58. Thinking Fast and Slow by. Daniel Kahneman
59. Design of Everyday Things by. Don Norman
60. Don’t Make Me Think by. Steve Krug
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Science
61. The Fated Sky by. Mary Robinette Kowal
62. The Calculating Stars by. Mary Robinette Kowal
63. Delta-V by. Daniel Suarez
64. 1984 by. George Orwell
65. Machines Like Me by. Ian McEwan
66. Red Moon by. Kim Stanley Robinson
67. Light From Other Stars by. Erika Swyler
68. The City in the Middle of the Night by. Charlie Jane Anders
69. The Light Brigade by. Kameron Hurley
70. Recursion by. Blake Crouch
Fantasy
71. The Alchemist by. Paulo Coelho
72. The Starless Sea by. Erin Morgenstern
73. Middle Game by. Seanan McGuire
74. Ninth House by. Leigh Bardugo
75. The Winter of the Witch by. Katherine Arden
76. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by. Marlon James
77. Magic for Liars by. Sarah Gailey
78. Descent Into Madness by. Sean R. Frazier
79. The Call of Chaos by. Sean R. Frazier
80. The Coming Storm by. Sean R. Frazier
Thriller
81. My Dark Vanessa by. Kate Elizabeth Russell
82. The Silent Patient by. Alex Michaelides
83. My Lovely Wife by. Samantha Downing
84. The Kill Club by. Wendy Heard
85. The Lost Man by. Jane Harper
86. The Whisper Man by. Alex North
87. An Anonymous Girl by. Greer Hendricks
88. Curious Toys by. Elizabeth Hand
89. The Chain by. Adrian McKinty
90. My Sister, the Serial Killer by. Oyinkan Braithwaite
Romance
91. Call Me By Your Name by. André Aciman
92. Love Her or Lose Her by. Tessa Bailey
93. The Wedding Date by. Jasmine Guillory
94. Red, White, & Royal Blue by. Casey McQuiston
95. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by. Talia Hibbert
Historical
96. The Night Tiger by. Yangsze Choo
97. The Mercies by. Kiran Millwood Hargrave
98. All the Light We Cannot See by. Anthony Doerr
99. The Last Days of Pompeii by. Edward Bulwer Lytton
100. Daisy Jones and the Six by. Taylor Jenkins Reid