Elizabeth Warren's Reading List
Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 22 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.
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Favorite books recommended by Elizabeth Warren, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/elizabeth-warren-favorite-books/.
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Michael Connelly · Buy on Amazon
"Harry makes mistakes, but he sticks to his principles – and he always works it out in the end. That was a very comforting series of books to read when I was a first-time candidate thrown into a bruising, uphill race for the United States Senate."
Timothy Egan · Buy on Amazon
"My family survived that Depression and Dust Bowl, and I was so caught up in the story, I couldn’t leave them until it finally rained and the country started to heal."
Fred Gipson · Buy on Amazon
"I tear up even now when I think about the boy shooting his dog."
Michelle Alexander (also rec’d by Frank Ocean , Henry Rollins , Jane Elliott & J. Cole ) · Buy on Amazon
"The opening paragraphs knocked me flat."
Jesse Eisinger · Buy on Amazon
"It makes me so furious to read that I have to put it down for long stretches."
Andrew J. Bacevich · Buy on Amazon
"Full of lessons we have not yet learned."
Barney Frank · Buy on Amazon
"Years later, I think of some of the things Barney or his supporters said, and I still laugh out loud."
Barry Eisler · Buy on Amazon
"Rain is my favorite assassin, a loner who, bit by bit, falls in love with a friend, a father, lover, a son."
Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer · Buy on Amazon
"Everyone should get a close look at how the poorest Americans live."
Larry McMurty (also rec’d by David Foster Wallace ) · Buy on Amazon
"Bruce [husband Bruce Mann] and I listened to it on a road trip through Yellowstone and across Montana and Wyoming."
Robert Hamilton, Alan Rau, and Russell Weintraub · Buy on Amazon
"I taught the course for 25 years, and this was the book I used."
Naomi Novik · 2019 · Buy on Amazon
"I put it on my headphones when I’m really stressed, and I drift into another world."
Elizabeth Kolbert · Buy on Amazon
"In the midst of a growing climate crisis, this book simultaneously urges action and teaches caution."
Gail Honeyman (also rec’d by Reese Witherspoon ) · Buy on Amazon
"People – even people who are badly damaged – get better."
Ibram X. Kendi · Buy on Amazon
"Because it wasn’t a sermon; it was a journey that unfolded a bit at a time."
J.D. Salinger (also rec’d by Axl Rose , Hozier , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Kurt Cobain , Lenny Kravitz , Liz Phair, Philip Roth , Richey Edwards , Scarlett Johansson & Uzo Aduba ) · Buy on Amazon
"C’mon – it’s mythic."
Louisa May Alcott (also rec’d by Elizabeth Warren , Glennon Doyle , Gloria Steinem , Hillary Clinton , John Lennon, Maya Angelou & Shonda Rhimes ) · Buy on Amazon
"I lived multiple lives in reading and re-reading that book across many summers. I was Jo. Then Meg. Then Beth (I imagined my own great death). Then back to Jo. (Never Amy – what a priss!)."
Yvonne Young Tarr · Buy on Amazon
"The Mexican oatmeal soup has become a staple of our lives; I make it every Christmas Eve."
Ann Patchett · 2016 · Buy on Amazon
"How to make a ‘barmaid’s gin and tonic’ to serve people who are already drunk. I’ve never needed to know this, but knowing it is like being let in on a cool little secret. Thank you, Ann Patchett."