Richard Branson's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 63 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

Favorite books (2022)

Favorite books recommended by Richard Branson, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/richard-branson-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak (also rec’d by Michelle Obama ) · Buy on Amazon

Tales of the Unexpected

Roald Dahl · Buy on Amazon

George’s Marvelous Medicine

Roald Dahl · Buy on Amazon

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain (also rec’d by Richard Branson & Stephen King ) · Buy on Amazon

Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

Dr Seuss · Buy on Amazon

Peter Pan

J.M. Barrie · Buy on Amazon

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling · Buy on Amazon

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams (also rec’d by Elon Musk ) · Buy on Amazon

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson (also rec’d by Anthony Bourdain , Hayao Miyazaki & Oscar Wilde ) · Buy on Amazon

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton · Buy on Amazon

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · Buy on Amazon

The Quiet American

Graham Greene (also rec’d by Anthony Bourdain ) · Buy on Amazon

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts · Buy on Amazon

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez (also rec’d by Joan Didion ) · Buy on Amazon

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Tracy Kidder · Buy on Amazon

The Outermost House

Henry Beston · Buy on Amazon

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang · Buy on Amazon

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege

Antony Beevor · Buy on Amazon

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe · Buy on Amazon

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick · Buy on Amazon

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou (also rec’d by Angie Thomas , Christiane Amanpour , Colin Kaepernick , Glennon Doyle , Janet Mock , Richard Branson & Shonda Rhimes ) · Buy on Amazon

Travels With Charley

John Steinbeck · Buy on Amazon

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela · Buy on Amazon

Mao: The Unknown Story

Jung Chang · Buy on Amazon

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

Jimmy Carter · Buy on Amazon

No Future Without Forgiveness

Desmond Tutu · Buy on Amazon

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Dava Sobel · Buy on Amazon