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Books to Enjoy This Summer: The TED Reading List

Whether your weeks ahead contain travel, vacations or just longer and lazier days than usual, our list of recommendations from TED speakers has books for all moods, activities and tastes.
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Predictably Irrational
Predictably Irrational
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Lisa Feldman Barrett)
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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Lisa Feldman Barrett
Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life (Roger-Pol Droit)
Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
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Roger-Pol Droit
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein)
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Another Country
Another Country
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A Lucky Man (Jamel Brinkley)
A Lucky Man
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Jamel Brinkley
Sophie's Misfortunes (Comtesse De Segur)
Sophie's Misfortunes
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Comtesse De Segur
A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
A Visit From the Goon Squad
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Jennifer Egan
Vengeance (Zachary Lazar)
Vengeance
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Zachary Lazar
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
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Gabriel García Márquez
Big Little Lies (Liane Moriarty)
Big Little Lies
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Liane Moriarty
What Alice Forgot (Liane Moriarty)
What Alice Forgot
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Liane Moriarty
Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery (Walter Mosley)
Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
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Walter Mosley
The Overstory (Richard Powers)
The Overstory
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Richard Powers
Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders)
Lincoln in the Bardo
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George Saunders
Late Fame (Arthur Schnitzler)
Late Fame
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Arthur Schnitzler
The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
The Hate U Give
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Angie Thomas
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Ross Gay)
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
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Ross Gay
The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
The Prophet
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Kahlil Gibran
Salt. (Nayyirah Waheed)
Salt.
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Nayyirah Waheed
Census (Jesse Ball)
Census
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Jesse Ball
Kintu (Jennifer Makumbi)
Kintu
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Jennifer Makumbi
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Madeleine Thien)
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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Madeleine Thien
Sometimes Brilliant (Larry Brilliant)
Sometimes Brilliant
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Larry Brilliant
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout (Laura Jane Grace)
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
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Laura Jane Grace
Lovesong: Becoming a Jew (Julius Lester)
Lovesong: Becoming a Jew
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Julius Lester
Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World (Eileen McNamara)
Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
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Eileen McNamara
The Bright Hour (Nina Riggs)
The Bright Hour
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Nina Riggs
Prerequisites to Ecstasy: A No-Nonsense Guide to What It Really Takes to Create the Love and Sex We (Om Rupani)
Prerequisites to Ecstasy: A No-Nonsense Guide to What It Really Takes to Create the Love and Sex We
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Om Rupani
Galileo and Experimental Science (Rebecca B. Marcus)
Galileo and Experimental Science
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Rebecca B. Marcus
Magical Mathematics:The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks (Persi Diaconis)
Magical Mathematics:The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks
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Persi Diaconis
Quantum Physics for Babies (Chris Ferrie)
Quantum Physics for Babies
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Chris Ferrie
3-D Geometric Origami: Modular Polyhedra (Rona Gurkewitz)
3-D Geometric Origami: Modular Polyhedra
33
Rona Gurkewitz
A MATHEMATICIAN's APOLOGY by G. H. Hardy
A MATHEMATICIAN's APOLOGY by G. H. Hardy
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The Grand Design
The Grand Design
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Becoming Leonardo: An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo Da Vinci (Mike Lankford)
Becoming Leonardo: An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
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Mike Lankford
The Stones of Venice
The Stones of Venice
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The Player of Games (Iain M. Banks)
The Player of Games
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Iain M. Banks
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
American Gods
39
Neil Gaiman
The Fire's Stone (Tanya Huff)
The Fire's Stone
40
Tanya Huff
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