TED Reading List

1.
Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating β€” 320,839 ratings
2.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating β€” 2,260,156 ratings
3.
Dune (Dune, #1)
Dune (Dune, #1) 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,570,610 ratings
4.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating β€” 919,347 ratings
5.
Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing 3.93 avg rating β€” 418,899 ratings
6.
The Way of Chuang Tzu
The Way of Chuang Tzu 4.20 avg rating β€” 4,741 ratings
7.
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) 3.95 avg rating β€” 333,097 ratings
8.
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Thing Around Your Neck 4.23 avg rating β€” 48,408 ratings
9.
Neuromancer
Neuromancer 3.89 avg rating β€” 354,120 ratings
10.
Tao: The Watercourse Way
Tao: The Watercourse Way 4.18 avg rating β€” 6,535 ratings
11.
The Family Virtues Guide: Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves
The Family Virtues Guide: Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves 4.31 avg rating β€” 173 ratings
12.
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World 4.20 avg rating β€” 87,500 ratings
13.
The Essential Rumi
The Essential Rumi 4.39 avg rating β€” 49,832 ratings
14.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating β€” 115,057 ratings
15.
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) 4.30 avg rating β€” 696,814 ratings
16.
The Intuitionist
The Intuitionist 3.62 avg rating β€” 16,072 ratings
17.
Behind the Kitchen Door
Behind the Kitchen Door 3.65 avg rating β€” 490 ratings
18.
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah 4.15 avg rating β€” 65,957 ratings
19.
Go the Fuck to Sleep
Go the Fuck to Sleep 4.28 avg rating β€” 89,608 ratings
20.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel 4.10 avg rating β€” 547 ratings
21.
The Principles of Uncertainty
The Principles of Uncertainty 4.05 avg rating β€” 9,935 ratings
21.
Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction 4.21 avg rating β€” 7,330 ratings
23.
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science 3.97 avg rating β€” 9,816 ratings
24.
What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better (Edge Question Series)
What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better (Edge Question Series) 3.64 avg rating β€” 357 ratings
25.
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 44,233 ratings
26.
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) 4.01 avg rating β€” 257,793 ratings
27.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life 4.05 avg rating β€” 147,342 ratings
28.
John Adams
John Adams 4.08 avg rating β€” 373,261 ratings
29.
Personal History: A Memoir
Personal History: A Memoir 4.09 avg rating β€” 24,451 ratings
30.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal 4.23 avg rating β€” 179,777 ratings
31.
The Power of Myth
The Power of Myth 4.26 avg rating β€” 53,109 ratings
32.
The Seven Mysteries Of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy
The Seven Mysteries Of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy 4.40 avg rating β€” 465 ratings
33.
A Giacometti Portrait
A Giacometti Portrait 4.18 avg rating β€” 935 ratings
34.
This is a Book
This is a Book 3.74 avg rating β€” 8,891 ratings
35.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches 4.02 avg rating β€” 6,179 ratings
36.
Big Cats: Stories
Big Cats: Stories 3.60 avg rating β€” 178 ratings
37.
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations 3.95 avg rating β€” 800 ratings
38.
Everything is Everything
Everything is Everything 4.21 avg rating β€” 135 ratings
39.
Working Class Represent
Working Class Represent 4.14 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
40.
A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears
A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,005 ratings
41.
Racing Hummingbirds
Racing Hummingbirds 4.30 avg rating β€” 709 ratings
42.
Pink Elephant
Pink Elephant 4.44 avg rating β€” 248 ratings
43.
Griffin & Sabine (Griffin & Sabine #1)
Griffin & Sabine (Griffin & Sabine #1) 4.03 avg rating β€” 75,220 ratings
44.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating β€” 657,141 ratings
45.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 4.52 avg rating β€” 27,085 ratings
46.
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America 3.88 avg rating β€” 1,187 ratings
47.
Perdido Street Station: Tome 1
Perdido Street Station: Tome 1 3.98 avg rating β€” 74,055 ratings
48.
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention 4.19 avg rating β€” 19,916 ratings
49.
Daemon (Daemon, #1)
Daemon (Daemon, #1) 4.16 avg rating β€” 47,831 ratings
50.
The Company
The Company 4.27 avg rating β€” 6,145 ratings
51.
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets 4.07 avg rating β€” 25,136 ratings
52.
Horns
Horns
by: Joe Hill
3.93 avg rating β€” 118,562 ratings
53.
I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail 4.28 avg rating β€” 284 ratings
54.
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 4.09 avg rating β€” 1,542 ratings
55.
Big Questions from Little People
Big Questions from Little People 3.87 avg rating β€” 1,543 ratings
56.
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists 4.16 avg rating β€” 752 ratings
57.
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar 4.15 avg rating β€” 137,898 ratings
58.
A Technique for Producing Ideas
A Technique for Producing Ideas 4.05 avg rating β€” 5,101 ratings
59.
The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science
The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science 3.82 avg rating β€” 792 ratings
60.
Henri's Walk to Paris
Henri's Walk to Paris 4.15 avg rating β€” 369 ratings
61.
The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs
The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs 4.02 avg rating β€” 331 ratings
62.
Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired
Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired 3.70 avg rating β€” 887 ratings
63.
Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia 4.09 avg rating β€” 68,335 ratings
64.
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Letters to a Young Contrarian 4.13 avg rating β€” 12,651 ratings
65.
Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China
Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China 3.89 avg rating β€” 742 ratings
66.
Everyone Poops
Everyone Poops
by: Taro Gomi
4.19 avg rating β€” 6,997 ratings
67.
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything 3.88 avg rating β€” 93,085 ratings
68.
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future 4.02 avg rating β€” 9,789 ratings
69.
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich 3.62 avg rating β€” 3,147 ratings
70.
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking 4.09 avg rating β€” 7,034 ratings
71.
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic 4.23 avg rating β€” 25,523 ratings
72.
The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World
The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World 3.96 avg rating β€” 419 ratings
73.
Classics: A Very Short Introduction
Classics: A Very Short Introduction 3.57 avg rating β€” 1,580 ratings