Paulo Coelho’s 6 Best-Loved Books
Paulo Coelho, the Brazilian lyricist and author best known for penning 1988’s international bestseller The Alchemist, lived a storied life…
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Angela Davis's Revolutionary Reading List
Author, academic and counterculture activist Angela Davis has been an outspoken advocate for the rights of the disenfranchised since the ’60s.…
Jim Morrison's Literary Influences
“Nietzsche killed Jim Morrison,” John Densmore, drummer of the Doors, wrote in his 1990 autobiography Riders on the Storm. Before…
Tom Waits's Favorite Reads
The son of two schoolteachers, junkyard poet and piano man Tom Waits has been a voracious reader all his life. In the 2009 biography Lowside…
Leonard Cohen’s Reading List
From a young age, rock poet and troubadour Leonard Cohen knew he wanted to be a writer. In fact, it wasn’t…
Florence Welch's Book Club Reads
Back in 2012, a 14-year-old fan tweeted singer, songwriter and angel spirit Florence Welch proposing she start a book club. Welch…
Questlove's Bookshelf
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the musician best known as the drummer and co-frontman of Grammy Award-winning hip-hop group The Roots, is very much…
Tom Wolfe’s Favorite Books
Tom Wolfe, the trailblazer of New Journalism who passed away in May of this year, was never one to shy…
5 Books Recommended By Michelle Obama
During her time as First Lady, Michelle Obama led numerous education and literacy initiatives and was oft seen in classrooms reading…
Barack Obama's Recommended Reads
Over the course of his 8 years in office, America’s last literate president Barack Obama made a lovely habit of…