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reading list
Here’s a huge list of TED speaker-recommended books, with all the
diversity of titles and topics you might expect. No matter your mood,
preference or occasion, we’ve got you covered.
Street Fight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan (TED Talk: New York streets — not so mean any
more)
The author was the transportation chief for past NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg. If you want to dive into how change happens in
cities, this book has a lot of great and useful stories.
— Jeff Speck (TED Talk: 4 ways to make a city more walkable)
When you’re over summer blockbusters and want something with soul
and emotion
Living Buddha, Living Christ: 20th Anniversary Edition by Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Buddhist monk Hanh is a shining light of gentle wisdom for our times. He is able to bridge Eastern and Western
traditions simply by touching on the beauty that underlies them both. This book brings me great calm and comfort through its
heart-melting and mind-opening insights.
— Lara Setrakian (TED Talk: 3 ways to fix a broken news industry)
What Love Is: And What It Could Be by Carrie Jenkins
Jenkins, a philosophy professor at the University of British Columbia, manages to make her investigation into the social and
biological forces that shape romantic love both intellectually rigorous and disarmingly personal. I learned so much from this book
— not just about how we understand and experience love, but also about how to approach a complex topic with wit and deep
compassion.
— Mandy Len Catron (TED Talk: A better way to talk about love)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
This classic novel has timeless societal lessons, certainly, but I’ve taken evergreen personal inspiration from it through my
decades of reading and re-reading it. As a child, I related to Scout, but now I look to Atticus for inspiration. As a mother in a
complicated time, I work to teach my children to stand against prejudice and injustice, even when personally costly. Atticus
Finch is a personal fictional hero of mine for his humility, his sense of justice and his unfailing love of his family and fellow
humans.
— Casey Brown (TED Talk: Know your worth, and then ask for it)
The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
This is the first book that my husband and I read together after our son Joel died. It has always been one of my favorite
theological books. It wrestles with one of the greatest questions of faith: “How could a good God allow pain and suffering?”
— Amy Green (TED Talk: A video game to cope with grief)
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
This is a very favorite book of mine. Russell wrestles with faith and suffering in the context of the silence of God, but within
science fiction, the genre most suited to all of humanity’s greatest questions. My husband and I love this book and its sequel, and
we find reflections of ourselves in the questions it asks and the answers the characters reluctantly discover.
— Amy Green (TED Talk: A video game to cope with grief)
The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi by Elif Shafak (TED Talk: The politics of fiction)
Shafak captures the soul of Turkish society, both the best of it and the wounds embedded in it. In this book, she unpacks the story
of Shams Tabrizi and Rumi and with it some of the precious wisdom of their Sufi way.
— Lara Setrakian (TED Talk: 3 ways to fix a broken news industry)
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music by Victor Wooten
Bass player Wooten is one of the greatest musicians in the world. It’s not a music lesson. It’s a life lesson. I’ve read it three
times. It just keeps getting better.
— Daniel Levitin (TED Talk: how to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed)