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Adam Grant's reading recommendations

Adam M. Grant is an American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. He received academic tenure aged 28, making him the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School.

Malcolm Gladwell's reading recommendations

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell CM (born 3 September 1963) is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker.[2] He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published seven books. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries. Gladwell's writings often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences, such as sociology and psychology, and make frequent and extended use of academic work.

Marc Andreessen's reading recommendations

Marc Andreesen is a co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. His net worth is 1.7 billion USD.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's reading recommendations

Nassim Nicholas Taleb; alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist.[1][2] His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. He is better known for his books "The Black Swan" and "Antifragile".

Neil Gaiman's reading recommendations

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman ; born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays. Gaiman has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals.

Roosevelt's recommended reading

The New Lifetime Reading Plan

The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bront%, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio and many others.