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Chelsea Clinton's Reading List

The co-author of “Governing Global Health” says she first read Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” in the seventh grade, and “it still makes me uncomfortable, even more so, decades later.”

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By the Book: Chelsea Clinton (2017)

NYT By the Book column (2017-02-23).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Secondhand Time
Secondhand Time
Svetlana Alexievich · Buy on Amazon
"Alexievich is all-consuming when I'm reading it, completely evocative in a way that brings me into the fabric of the stories she's sharing."
Swing Time
Zadie Smith · Buy on Amazon
"those two continue to haunt me with their humanity and their moral challenge to be good, in the big and small acts of life."
Cover of When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi · 2016 · Buy on Amazon
"those two continue to haunt me with their humanity and their moral challenge to be good, in the big and small acts of life."
Cover of Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 1953 · Buy on Amazon
"it still makes me uncomfortable, even more so, decades later."
A Wrinkle in Time
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"A Wrinkle in Time endures 25 years after my first reading as a true favorite for me."
The Ghost Map
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"The Ghost Map is a terrific read about how John Snow's work on cholera in London in the 19th century changed epidemiology and science forever."
And the Band Played On
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"And the Band Played On is an extraordinary book and an extraordinarily painful one to read, but vital to understanding the early fight against H.I.V.-AIDS in the U.S."
Arcadia
Tom Stoppard · Buy on Amazon
"The Tom Stoppard play 'Arcadia,' the first written work my husband ever gave me... I'll always remember holding his hand as I sat next to him reading it, overwhelmed by feelings sparked by him, his gift and the play itself."

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