Tom Hanks's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 10 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

Favorite books (2019)

Favorite books recommended by Tom Hanks, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/tom-hanks-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

A World Lit Only By Fire

Fire by William Manchester · Buy on Amazon

"The dark ages, explained as humans lived through them. A time machine of a book."

An Army At Dawn

Rick Atkinson · Buy on Amazon

"The Liberation Trilogy covers WWII in Africa and Europe, where the small details hold the DNA of the entire conflagration. The final pages will rip your heart out."

1939: The Lost World of the Fair

David Gelernter · Buy on Amazon

"You will go to the Fair with two of the most fascinating people to ever live in a book."

Stasiland

Anna Funder · Buy on Amazon

"You may not be able to comprehend how far a state will go to keep its people subjugated."

A Gentleman In Moscow

Amor Towles · Buy on Amazon

"What Gone with the Wind was to the Antebellum Plantation, this is to the Russian Grand Hotel."

What It Takes

Richard Ben Cramer · Buy on Amazon

"Thinking about running for office? Going into politics? Really? REALLY???"

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari (also rec’d by Janelle Monáe ) · Buy on Amazon

"As in, all of us, each and every person who every stood erect on this spinning globe."

Spies of the Balkans

Alan Furst · Buy on Amazon

"Espionage and mystery and politics and war at a time when one was either a hero, a villain, or a coward. No exceptions."

Supreme City

Donald L. Miller · Buy on Amazon

"You will never see NYC the same, and will never be without a destination to see."

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen · Buy on Amazon

"Current events, ongoing, recognizable, and important to realize."

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