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Pete Buttigieg's Reading List

Former US Transportation Secretary, former mayor of South Bend; polyglot and avid reader.

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Pete Buttigieg's 10 Favorite Books (2020)

Curated for One Grand Books with quotes from Buttigieg about each pick.

Source: onegrandbooks.com

Cover of Ulysses
James Joyce · 1922 · Buy on Amazon
"A story about what it is to be human as one middle-class guy goes about one day."
Cover of A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas · 1952 · Buy on Amazon
"Achieves the remarkable feat of making me nostalgic about someone else's childhood."
Cover of The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1943 · Buy on Amazon
"Touching, it's about innocence and exploration, it's sad but also uplifting."
Cover of The Odyssey
Homer · -700 · Buy on Amazon
"Connects me to my Mediterranean (Maltese) roots."
Cover of The Quiet American
Graham Greene · 1955 · Buy on Amazon
"Points out the dangers of well-intentioned interventions."
Cover of Armageddon Averted
Stephen Kotkin · 2001 · Buy on Amazon
"Ahead of its time in pointing out how the seeds of oligarchy were sown."
Cover of My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk · 1998 · Buy on Amazon
"A gripping novel about art and religion, the encounter of East and West."
Cover of Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz · 1956 · Buy on Amazon
"Views politics not through the excitements of politicians but what it means for our lived experience."
Cover of Naive. Super
Erlend Loe · 1996 · Buy on Amazon
"The book that every searching twenty-something needs."
Cover of Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel · 2009 · Buy on Amazon
"Explores what it means to live by a code when you are at political and personal risk."

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