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    "slug": "barack-obama",
    "name": "Barack Obama",
    "role": "44th President of the United States",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He publishes an annual list of his favorite books each December.",
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      "fg": "#F6B8EC",
      "accent": "#FFD166"
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  },
  {
    "slug": "oprah-winfrey",
    "name": "Oprah Winfrey",
    "role": "media executive and talk show host",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Oprah Winfrey is a media executive and talk show host who built one of the most influential book clubs in the world. Her picks have launched dozens of books onto bestseller lists since 1996.",
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    "color": {
      "bg": "#7C2D12",
      "fg": "#FFE8D6",
      "accent": "#F4A259"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "warren-buffett",
    "name": "Warren Buffett",
    "role": "chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway",
    "category": "Investors",
    "bio": "Warren Buffett is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the most successful investors in history. He recommends books in Berkshire's annual shareholder letters.",
    "listUrl": "https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html",
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      "bg": "#1B4332",
      "fg": "#D8F3DC",
      "accent": "#FFD166"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "bill-gates",
    "name": "Bill Gates",
    "role": "Co-founder of Microsoft",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world's best-known philanthropists. He publishes detailed book reviews and annual reading lists on his blog, GatesNotes.",
    "listUrl": "https://www.gatesnotes.com/summer-books-2025",
    "color": {
      "bg": "#E8E3D3",
      "fg": "#1A1A1A",
      "accent": "#D9481C"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "elon-musk",
    "name": "Elon Musk",
    "role": "CEO of Tesla and SpaceX",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and founder of xAI. He has named the books that shaped his thinking in tweets and interviews over the years.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#0A0A0A",
      "fg": "#E8E8E8",
      "accent": "#D9481C"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "satya-nadella",
    "name": "Satya Nadella",
    "role": "CEO of Microsoft",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "CEO of Microsoft since 2014, credited with reviving its culture and cloud business. He has described the books behind his leadership approach in interviews and in his memoir Hit Refresh.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#0078D4",
      "fg": "#FFFFFF",
      "accent": "#FFD166"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "sam-altman",
    "name": "Sam Altman",
    "role": "CEO of OpenAI",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Previously president of Y Combinator, where he ran the startup accelerator from 2014 to 2019.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#0F3D2E",
      "fg": "#ECFDF5",
      "accent": "#FFD166"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "patrick-collison",
    "name": "Patrick Collison",
    "role": "co-founder and CEO of Stripe",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Stripe, the payments company he started with his brother John in 2010. Previously founded the auction software company Auctomatic.",
    "listUrl": "https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf",
    "color": {
      "bg": "#635BFF",
      "fg": "#FFFFFF",
      "accent": "#FFD166"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "paul-graham",
    "name": "Paul Graham",
    "role": "co-founder of Y Combinator",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Co-founder of Y Combinator and founder of the ecommerce company Viaweb. Writes the influential essays on startups, programming, and thinking published at paulgraham.com.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#F26522",
      "fg": "#FFFFFF",
      "accent": "#1A1A1A"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "reid-hoffman",
    "name": "Reid Hoffman",
    "role": "Co-founder of LinkedIn",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Co-founder of LinkedIn and partner at Greylock Partners. He hosts the Masters of Scale podcast and wrote The Startup of You and Blitzscaling.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#0A66C2",
      "fg": "#FFFFFF",
      "accent": "#FFD166"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "naval-ravikant",
    "name": "Naval Ravikant",
    "role": "Co-founder of AngelList",
    "category": "Investors",
    "bio": "Co-founder of AngelList and early investor in Twitter and Uber. His writing on wealth, leverage, and happiness is collected in The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#1D3557",
      "fg": "#F1FAEE",
      "accent": "#E63946"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "jensen-huang",
    "name": "Jensen Huang",
    "role": "Founder and CEO of NVIDIA",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA since 1993, leading it from graphics chips to the center of the AI era. He is the longest-serving CEO among major technology companies.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#1A2E05",
      "fg": "#D9F99D",
      "accent": "#76B900"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "demis-hassabis",
    "name": "Demis Hassabis",
    "role": "Co-founder of DeepMind and Nobel laureate",
    "category": "Scientists",
    "bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work of AlphaFold. He researches artificial general intelligence and how to apply it to scientific discovery.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#1E40AF",
      "fg": "#EFF6FF",
      "accent": "#FFD166"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "tyler-cowen",
    "name": "Tyler Cowen",
    "role": "Economist and author",
    "category": "Authors",
    "bio": "George Mason University economist and co-author of the blog Marginal Revolution, one of the most widely read economics blogs. He hosts the Conversations with Tyler podcast and writes on economics, culture, technology, and food.",
    "listUrl": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/11/best-non-fiction-books-2018.html",
    "color": {
      "bg": "#6B21A8",
      "fg": "#F5F3FF",
      "accent": "#FBBF24"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "luke-combs",
    "name": "Luke Combs",
    "role": "Country music star",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Country music star from Asheville, North Carolina, with 19 consecutive number-one singles and multiple CMA and Grammy wins.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#3F2A0B",
      "fg": "#FDF6EC",
      "accent": "#E9B44C"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "jennie",
    "name": "Jennie",
    "role": "K-pop star and solo artist",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "South Korean singer, rapper and actress; a member of Blackpink and solo artist behind the 2025 album Ruby.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#8C1D40",
      "fg": "#FFF5F7",
      "accent": "#F7C948"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "keke-palmer",
    "name": "Keke Palmer",
    "role": "Actress, singer, TV host",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Actress, singer and television host who grew up as a child star (Akeelah and the Bee) and became a widely quoted cultural commentator.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#4C1D95",
      "fg": "#F5F3FF",
      "accent": "#FBBF24"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "noah-wyle",
    "name": "Noah Wyle",
    "role": "Actor (ER, The Pitt)",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Actor best known as Dr. John Carter on ER and Dr. Robby on The Pitt; an avid reader who banned phones on The Pitt set and stocked a lending library for cast and crew.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#0B3D5C",
      "fg": "#F0F9FF",
      "accent": "#F59E0B"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "dakota-johnson",
    "name": "Dakota Johnson",
    "role": "Actress",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Actress (Fifty Shades, Materialists) who runs the TeaTime Book Club, picking literary fiction monthly for readers on Instagram.",
    "listUrl": "https://tertulia.com/voices/dakota-johnson-books",
    "color": {
      "bg": "#5C1A1B",
      "fg": "#FFF1F2",
      "accent": "#FBBF24"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "jafar-panahi",
    "name": "Jafar Panahi",
    "role": "Iranian filmmaker",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Iranian filmmaker whose Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just an Accident (2025) followed years of imprisonment and a filmmaking ban.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#3B0764",
      "fg": "#FAF5FF",
      "accent": "#FDE68A"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "claire-danes",
    "name": "Claire Danes",
    "role": "Actress (Homeland)",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Actress known for My So-Called Life and Homeland; a serious reader whose O Magazine list named six works that shaped her life and craft.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#064E3B",
      "fg": "#ECFDF5",
      "accent": "#FCD34D"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "benicio-del-toro",
    "name": "Benicio Del Toro",
    "role": "Actor",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Oscar-winning Puerto Rican actor (Traffic, Sicario, Che), known for years-long, research-heavy preparation for his roles.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#7F1D1D",
      "fg": "#FFF7ED",
      "accent": "#FBBF24"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "jonathan-groff",
    "name": "Jonathan Groff",
    "role": "Actor (Hamilton, Mindhunter)",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Actor and singer (King George III in Hamilton, Mindhunter); spent his nine-minutes-a-night Hamilton downtime reading through his whole list.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#1E3A8A",
      "fg": "#EFF6FF",
      "accent": "#FDE047"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "ranbir-kapoor",
    "name": "Ranbir Kapoor",
    "role": "Bollywood actor",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Bollywood actor and avid reader of biographies and autobiographies; he says reading is how he connects with reality, since scripts are fiction anyway.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#581C87",
      "fg": "#FAF5FF",
      "accent": "#FDE68A"
    }
  },
  {
    "bio": "Novelist and Emory professor whose Oprah's Book Club pick An American Marriage won the Women's Prize. She calls herself a book matchmaker and recommends Song of Solomon to every student.",
    "category": "Authors",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#E9A13B",
      "bg": "#3B1F2B",
      "fg": "#F5E6D0"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Tayari Jones",
    "role": "Novelist, author of An American Marriage",
    "slug": "tayari-jones"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Vermont folk-pop singer-songwriter behind Stick Season. He credits John Steinbeck's sense of place in East of Eden as the model for how he world-builds Vermont in his songs.",
    "category": "Artists",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#D4A017",
      "bg": "#0F4C3A",
      "fg": "#E9F5EC"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Noah Kahan",
    "role": "Folk-pop singer-songwriter",
    "slug": "noah-kahan"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Nine-time Grammy-winning musician, producer and drummer, one half of Silk Sonic, and now a published fiction author: his story collection Peeps on Sunset arrives February 2027.",
    "category": "Artists",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#FFB100",
      "bg": "#4A1025",
      "fg": "#FFE9C9"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Anderson .Paak",
    "role": "Musician, producer, drummer",
    "slug": "anderson-paak"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Emmy-nominated actress (Kim Wexler on Better Call Saul) now starring as romance novelist Carol Sturka in Vince Gilligan's Pluribus. She builds characters through what they read.",
    "category": "Artists",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#7FD1C0",
      "bg": "#123A5C",
      "fg": "#EAF2FB"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Rhea Seehorn",
    "role": "Actress (Better Call Saul, Pluribus)",
    "slug": "rhea-seehorn"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Grammy-winning R&B singer and actress who plays Hilary Banks on Bel-Air; her debut album Why Not More? arrived in 2025.",
    "category": "Artists",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#FF7AA2",
      "bg": "#5C1233",
      "fg": "#FFE4EC"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Coco Jones",
    "role": "R&B singer, actress (Bel-Air)",
    "slug": "coco-jones"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Physician-turned-bestselling psychological thriller novelist. The Housemaid (2022) became a global BookTok phenomenon and a 2025 film starring Sydney Sweeney.",
    "category": "Authors",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#C1121F",
      "bg": "#141210",
      "fg": "#F0E9DE"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Freida McFadden",
    "role": "Bestselling thriller novelist (The Housemaid)",
    "slug": "freida-mcfadden"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Brazilian actor (Pablo Escobar in Narcos, Civil War) and director of Marighella, Oscar-nominated for best actor for The Secret Agent.",
    "category": "Artists",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#F2A104",
      "bg": "#0D2818",
      "fg": "#E8F5E9"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Wagner Moura",
    "role": "Brazilian actor (Narcos, The Secret Agent)",
    "slug": "wagner-moura"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Oscar-nominated actress (Almost Famous) and Fabletics co-founder who describes herself as a late-blooming reader, won over by John Williams's Stoner.",
    "category": "Artists",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#E8A87C",
      "bg": "#5B2333",
      "fg": "#FFF0E8"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Kate Hudson",
    "role": "Actress (Almost Famous, Running Point)",
    "slug": "kate-hudson"
  },
  {
    "bio": "American figure skater and 2026 Olympic champion, the first U.S. women's gold in 24 years, after walking away at 16 and returning on her own terms. She winds down from competition with novels.",
    "category": "Artists",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#F5C518",
      "bg": "#10233B",
      "fg": "#E8F1FA"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Alysa Liu",
    "role": "Olympic champion figure skater",
    "slug": "alysa-liu"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Actress and singer (Lizzie McGuire) who also writes YA novels, including the Elixir trilogy and the My Little Brave Girl picture book.",
    "category": "Artists",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#E8B04B",
      "bg": "#40260F",
      "fg": "#FFF3E0"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Hilary Duff",
    "role": "Actress, singer, YA author",
    "slug": "hilary-duff"
  },
  {
    "slug": "alan-cumming",
    "name": "Alan Cumming",
    "role": "Actor and writer",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Tony-winning Scottish actor (Cabaret, The Good Wife) and bestselling memoirist (Not My Father's Son); shared his 10 favorite books with the bookstore One Grand.",
    "listUrl": "https://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curators/actors/alan-cumming/",
    "color": {
      "bg": "#4A1D6B",
      "fg": "#F3E8FF",
      "accent": "#FFB627"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "sterling-k-brown",
    "name": "Sterling K. Brown",
    "role": "Actor",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Three-time Emmy winner (This Is Us, The People v. O.J. Simpson); became a fan of Percival Everett's novels while filming American Fiction.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#123B5C",
      "fg": "#E8F1F8",
      "accent": "#F59E0B"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "ethan-hawke",
    "name": "Ethan Hawke",
    "role": "Actor and writer",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Four-time Oscar-nominated actor and novelist (Rules for a Knight, Indeh); named four favorites on Bustle's One Nightstand in Sept 2026 and six on a One Grand list.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#5C1A1B",
      "fg": "#FBE9E7",
      "accent": "#FFC53D"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "chloe-kim",
    "name": "Chloe Kim",
    "role": "Olympic snowboarder",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Two-time Olympic gold medalist in snowboard halfpipe; told Fashionista in June 2026 she loves romantasy and has read all of Fourth Wing.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#0E4D64",
      "fg": "#E6F7FB",
      "accent": "#FF8C42"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "shirin-ebadi",
    "name": "Shirin Ebadi",
    "role": "Nobel Peace laureate and human rights lawyer",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "Iranian lawyer and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate; wrote the foreword to Narges Mohammadi's White Torture.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#3D2C02",
      "fg": "#FDF3E0",
      "accent": "#E8A838"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "walter-hood",
    "name": "Walter Hood",
    "role": "Landscape architect",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "MacArthur-winning landscape architect and UC Berkeley professor; his interviews cite James Baldwin and W.E.B. Du Bois as touchstones.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#2E4B1F",
      "fg": "#EAF3E2",
      "accent": "#D9A441"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "victoria-beckham",
    "name": "Victoria Beckham",
    "role": "Fashion designer",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Former Spice Girl turned fashion designer; told Instagram followers in 2022 she had finished two Matt Haig novels and asked what to read next.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#571845",
      "fg": "#FCE4F1",
      "accent": "#FF6B9D"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "rauw-alejandro",
    "name": "Rauw Alejandro",
    "role": "Reggaeton singer",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Puerto Rican reggaeton star (Saturno, Cosa Nuestra). No verifiable public book recommendations found.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#083B3B",
      "fg": "#E0F5F2",
      "accent": "#FBBF24"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "kica-matos",
    "name": "Kica Matos",
    "role": "Immigration advocate",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "President of the National Immigration Law Center, named to the TIME100 in 2026. No verifiable public book recommendations found.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#5A1F1F",
      "fg": "#FBEFE9",
      "accent": "#FFC94D"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "zoe-saldana",
    "name": "Zoe Saldaña",
    "role": "Actress",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Oscar-winning actress (Avatar, Emilia Perez); Junot Diaz sent her the Oscar Wao manuscript before publication and she and her family wept reading it.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#1F3A5F",
      "fg": "#E9F2FD",
      "accent": "#7DD3FC"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "ben-stiller",
    "name": "Ben Stiller",
    "role": "Actor, director and producer",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Ben Stiller is an actor, director and producer whose films have grossed over $2.6 billion; he has named formative books in Tim Ferriss's Tribe of Mentors and publicly praised Sidney Lumet's Making Movies and Rachel Maddow's Bag Man.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#4A1D6B",
      "fg": "#F6F0FF",
      "accent": "#FFB703"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "aliko-dangote",
    "name": "Aliko Dangote",
    "role": "Founder of Dangote Group",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Aliko Dangote is the Nigerian industrialist who built Dangote Group, Africa's largest industrial conglomerate spanning cement, sugar, flour and a 650,000-barrel refinery; no publicly documented book recommendations were found.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#14532D",
      "fg": "#F0FDF4",
      "accent": "#FBBF24"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "scottie-scheffler",
    "name": "Scottie Scheffler",
    "role": "Professional golfer, world No. 1",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Scottie Scheffler is a professional golfer and the world's top-ranked player, a multiple major champion; he says he is not much of a reader beyond the Bible and a daily devotional.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#123524",
      "fg": "#EAF7EE",
      "accent": "#D4A017"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "anok-yai",
    "name": "Anok Yai",
    "role": "Model",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Anok Yai is a Sudanese-American supermodel, the second Black model to open a Prada show; she has named favorite books in a Vogue diary feature and was photographed reading The Count of Monte Cristo.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#831843",
      "fg": "#FDF2F8",
      "accent": "#FCD34D"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "ralph-lauren",
    "name": "Ralph Lauren",
    "role": "Fashion designer, founder of Ralph Lauren Corporation",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Ralph Lauren is the American fashion designer who built Ralph Lauren Corporation into a global lifestyle brand; no publicly documented book recommendations were found.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#7F1D1D",
      "fg": "#FEF2F2",
      "accent": "#FBBF24"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "lynsey-addario",
    "name": "Lynsey Addario",
    "role": "Photojournalist and author",
    "category": "Authors",
    "bio": "Lynsey Addario is a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur-winning photojournalist and author of the memoir It's What I Do; no books she has publicly recommended were found.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#1E3A5F",
      "fg": "#EFF6FF",
      "accent": "#F59E0B"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "susan-dell",
    "name": "Susan Dell",
    "role": "Philanthropist, co-founder of Michael & Susan Dell Foundation",
    "category": "Leaders",
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    "bio": "Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Alphabet and Google, who led Chrome and Android before taking the top job; he publicly endorsed Trillion Dollar Coach and has been listed recommending Born a Crime and The Lean Startup.",
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    "category": "Founders",
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    "role": "CEO of Intel; founder of Walden International",
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    "bio": "CEO of Intel and founder of Walden International, the venture firm he named for Thoreau's Walden; previously led Cadence's 13-year turnaround.",
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    "bio": "Comedian and TV host (The Nikki Glaser Podcast, Golden Globes host); her reading runs to memoirs, self-help, and relationship psychology.",
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    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Captain of the U.S. women's national hockey team and the all-time leading scorer in Women's World Championship history.",
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    "name": "Vikas Khanna",
    "role": "Chef, author, and filmmaker",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Michelin-starred chef, author of more than 40 books, and filmmaker (The Last Color); born in Amritsar, based in New York.",
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    "name": "Lando Norris",
    "role": "Formula 1 driver, McLaren",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Formula 1 driver for McLaren; no public book recommendations found.",
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    "name": "Mashama Bailey",
    "role": "Chef and co-owner of The Grey",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Executive chef and co-owner of The Grey in Savannah; 2022 James Beard Outstanding Chef; co-author of Black, White, and The Grey.",
    "listUrl": null,
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    "name": "Matthieu Blazy",
    "role": "Creative director of Chanel",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Creative director of Chanel from 2025, formerly of Bottega Veneta; a literary designer who has called Kerouac's On the Road one of his favorite books.",
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    "name": "Dario Amodei",
    "role": "CEO and co-founder of Anthropic",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "CEO and co-founder of Anthropic; his documented public record is three book recommendations from his 2024 Ezra Klein interview plus The Player of Games, discussed in his essay Machines of Loving Grace.",
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    "name": "Daniela Amodei",
    "role": "President and co-founder of Anthropic",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "President and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude. A former English literature major who reads widely in science fiction and history.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#F7EDE4",
      "accent": "#E8A33D"
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    "name": "Noah Lyles",
    "role": "Olympic sprinter, 100m champion",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "American sprinter who won Olympic gold in the 100m at Paris 2024. He has spoken openly about depression and is a devoted manga reader.",
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    "name": "Yiyun Li",
    "role": "Novelist and MacArthur fellow",
    "category": "Authors",
    "bio": "Chinese-American novelist, MacArthur fellow, and Princeton creative-writing professor. She reads War and Peace and Moby-Dick every year, six months each.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#EAF3EE",
      "accent": "#D9A441"
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    "slug": "tony-tyson",
    "name": "Tony Tyson",
    "role": "Founding director of Rubin Observatory",
    "category": "Scientists",
    "bio": "Astronomer and chief scientist of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which he first proposed 30 years ago. He pioneered weak gravitational lensing at Bell Labs.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#E8ECF7",
      "accent": "#F0A832"
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    "slug": "cao-fei",
    "name": "Cao Fei",
    "role": "Chinese multimedia artist",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Guangzhou-born multimedia artist whose films and installations speculate on China's urban and technological futures. She collaborates closely with Chinese science-fiction writers.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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    "name": "John Furner",
    "role": "CEO of Walmart",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "President and CEO of Walmart, the world's largest retailer. He started at Walmart in 1993 as a part-time hourly garden-center associate.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#EDF2FA",
      "accent": "#F5B841"
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    "name": "Jeremy Allaire",
    "role": "CEO and co-founder of Circle",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Circle, issuer of the USDC stablecoin. He reads Camus, Conrad, and Kapuscinski rather than business books.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#E9F5F2",
      "accent": "#E8B13D"
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    "slug": "mari-luz-canaquiri-murayari",
    "name": "Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari",
    "role": "Indigenous environmental leader, Peru",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "Kukama Indigenous leader from Loreto, Peru, and founder of the Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana women's federation. She won the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for defending the Marañón River.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#F4F1E4",
      "accent": "#E07B39"
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    "slug": "luciano-moreira",
    "name": "Luciano Moreira",
    "role": "CEO of Wolbito do Brasil",
    "category": "Scientists",
    "bio": "Brazilian public-health researcher and CEO of Wolbito do Brasil, the world's largest biofactory breeding Wolbachia mosquitoes to block dengue transmission.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#F7EFE3",
      "accent": "#3FA34D"
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  },
  {
    "slug": "neal-mohan",
    "name": "Neal Mohan",
    "role": "CEO of YouTube",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "CEO of YouTube since 2023, after serving as its chief product officer. The Stanford engineer steers the platform two billion people watch daily.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#F9EFEA",
      "accent": "#F2C230"
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  },
  {
    "slug": "sabrina-walter",
    "name": "Sabrina Walter",
    "role": "Founder of Women for Change",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "Founder of Women for Change, the South African movement whose decade of protests and 1,500 victim stories helped push gender-based violence and femicide to be declared a national disaster in 2025.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#FBF3E4",
      "accent": "#E8B84B"
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  {
    "slug": "dolores-huerta",
    "name": "Dolores Huerta",
    "role": "Labor leader and civil rights activist",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "Co-founder of the United Farm Workers and originator of the slogan 'Si se puede'; at 96, she is the oldest person on the TIME 100 2026 list and still organizing.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#F4F1E6",
      "accent": "#E8B84B"
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  {
    "slug": "reid-wiseman",
    "name": "Reid Wiseman",
    "role": "NASA astronaut, Artemis II commander",
    "category": "Scientists",
    "bio": "Commander of NASA's Artemis II, the first crewed lunar flyby in over 50 years; a self-described learner who reaches for books by experts when facing hard problems.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#EDF2F8",
      "accent": "#F2C14E"
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    "slug": "josh-damaro",
    "name": "Josh D'Amaro",
    "role": "CEO of Disney Experiences",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company since March 2026 after 28 years in the parks and experiences business; TIME 100 Pioneers 2026 honoree.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#F2EFE4",
      "accent": "#E8B84B"
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  {
    "slug": "mamadou-amadou-ly",
    "name": "Mamadou Amadou Ly",
    "role": "Executive Director of ARED",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "Executive Director of ARED, the Senegalese nonprofit pioneering bilingual schooling in Wolof, Pulaar and French; first African to win the Yidan Prize (2025).",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#FAF3E4",
      "accent": "#E8B84B"
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    "slug": "nancy-silverton",
    "name": "Nancy Silverton",
    "role": "Chef, baker, restaurateur",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Chef, baker and restaurateur behind La Brea Bakery and Pizzeria Mozza; a James Beard Outstanding Chef winner whose cookbooks became working references for professional bakers.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#FAF3E4",
      "accent": "#E8B84B"
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    "slug": "mrbeast",
    "name": "MrBeast",
    "role": "YouTuber and entrepreneur",
    "category": "Artists",
    "bio": "Jimmy Donaldson, the most-subscribed individual creator on YouTube and founder of Feastables; his public reading list runs to business biographies and company histories.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#F5F1E4",
      "accent": "#F2C14E"
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  },
  {
    "slug": "mariangela-hungria",
    "name": "Mariangela Hungria",
    "role": "Agricultural microbiologist",
    "category": "Scientists",
    "bio": "Embrapa soil microbiologist whose biological-input research replaced chemical fertilizers across Brazilian agriculture; first Brazilian to win the World Food Prize (2025).",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#4A5D12",
      "fg": "#FAF4E4",
      "accent": "#E8B84B"
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  },
  {
    "slug": "c-c-wei",
    "name": "C.C. Wei",
    "role": "Chairman and CEO of TSMC",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Chairman and CEO of TSMC, the foundry manufacturing the world's leading AI chips; profiled on the TIME 100 by NVIDIA's Jensen Huang.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#452A85",
      "fg": "#F1EDFA",
      "accent": "#E8B84B"
    }
  },
  {
    "slug": "lauren-hersh",
    "name": "Lauren Hersh",
    "role": "Anti-trafficking lawyer and advocate",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "Lawyer and co-founder/CEO of World Without Exploitation, the national coalition against human trafficking; she helped lead the survivor-driven push for the Epstein Files Transparency Act.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#FAF3E4",
      "accent": "#E8B84B"
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  },
  {
    "slug": "rachel-foster",
    "name": "Rachel Foster",
    "role": "Co-founder and President of World Without Exploitation",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "Co-founder and president of World Without Exploitation, the national anti-trafficking coalition; a New York attorney who has spent 35 years advocating for survivors of the sex trade. Named to the 2026 TIME 100 Pioneers.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#5B1A2E",
      "fg": "#F7EDE4",
      "accent": "#E8A93D"
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    "slug": "shannon-minter",
    "name": "Shannon Minter",
    "role": "Legal Director, National Center for LGBTQ Rights",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "Legal director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights and lead counsel in the California case that established marriage equality there. Named to the 2026 TIME 100 Pioneers.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#0E4D64",
      "fg": "#F2F7F5",
      "accent": "#F2B134"
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    "slug": "zabib-musa-loro",
    "name": "Zabib Musa Loro",
    "role": "Founder and Executive Director, Women for Justice and Equality",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "South Sudanese women's rights activist and founder of Women for Justice and Equality; a 2025 International Women of Courage honoree. Named to the 2026 TIME 100 Pioneers.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#5F3A0B",
      "fg": "#FAF3E6",
      "accent": "#E2711D"
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    "slug": "sarah-friar",
    "name": "Sarah Friar",
    "role": "CFO of OpenAI",
    "category": "Founders",
    "bio": "Chief financial officer of OpenAI and former CEO of Nextdoor; previously CFO of Square, which she led through its IPO. Named to the 2026 TIME 100 Pioneers.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#F5F1E6",
      "accent": "#E9C46A"
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  },
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    "name": "Kiran Musunuru",
    "role": "Cardiologist and gene-editing researcher",
    "category": "Scientists",
    "bio": "Physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania pioneering in-vivo CRISPR therapies, including the first personalized gene-editing treatment for an infant. Named to the 2026 TIME 100 Pioneers.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#3D1D5C",
      "fg": "#F3EEFF",
      "accent": "#FFB703"
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    "slug": "rebecca-ahrens-nicklas",
    "name": "Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas",
    "role": "Physician-scientist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia",
    "category": "Scientists",
    "bio": "Physician-scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who co-developed the first personalized CRISPR therapy for a child with a rare metabolic disorder. Named to the 2026 TIME 100 Pioneers.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#8C1D40",
      "fg": "#FDF3F0",
      "accent": "#FFC53D"
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    "slug": "pope-leo-xiv",
    "name": "Pope Leo XIV",
    "role": "Head of the Catholic Church",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "Head of the Catholic Church and the first American-born pope; an Augustinian friar who spent two decades as a missionary in Peru. Named to the 2026 TIME 100 Leaders.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#4A2C0A",
      "fg": "#FAF3E3",
      "accent": "#D9A441"
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    "slug": "claudia-sheinbaum",
    "name": "Claudia Sheinbaum",
    "role": "President of Mexico",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "President of Mexico and the country's first woman president; a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City. Named to the 2026 TIME 100 Leaders.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
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      "fg": "#F4F1E8",
      "accent": "#E8A93D"
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  {
    "slug": "marco-rubio",
    "name": "Marco Rubio",
    "role": "US Secretary of State",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "US Secretary of State and former US senator from Florida; the first Latino to hold the office. Named to the 2026 TIME 100 Leaders.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#7B1E1E",
      "fg": "#F9F1E8",
      "accent": "#F2B134"
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    "slug": "donald-trump",
    "name": "Donald Trump",
    "role": "President of the United States",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "bio": "President of the United States, serving his second term; real estate developer and author of The Art of the Deal. Named to the 2026 TIME 100 Leaders.",
    "listUrl": null,
    "color": {
      "bg": "#1F2A5C",
      "fg": "#F5F2E9",
      "accent": "#D4A017"
    }
  },
  {
    "bio": "White House chief of staff under President Trump, the first woman to hold the role; the strategist behind his Florida victories and 2024 campaign.",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#D9A441",
      "bg": "#3B1F2B",
      "fg": "#F5EFE6"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Susie Wiles",
    "role": "White House Chief of Staff",
    "slug": "susie-wiles"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party who became prime minister in 2026 after 18 years in exile in London.",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#E0A030",
      "bg": "#0E4D3C",
      "fg": "#F2F0E4"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Tarique Rahman",
    "role": "Prime Minister of Bangladesh",
    "slug": "tarique-rahman"
  },
  {
    "bio": "U.S. senator from Arizona and retired NASA astronaut who flew four space shuttle missions; co-author with Gabby Giffords of books on recovery and gun violence.",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#C77E2E",
      "bg": "#141B33",
      "fg": "#EDEAE0"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Mark Kelly",
    "role": "U.S. Senator from Arizona",
    "slug": "mark-kelly"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Constitutional scholar, former dean of Yale Law School, and president of the Ford Foundation since late 2025; author of The Democracy Index.",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#D9A441",
      "bg": "#2E1A47",
      "fg": "#F0EDE6"
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    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Heather Gerken",
    "role": "President of the Ford Foundation",
    "slug": "heather-gerken"
  },
  {
    "bio": "U.S. Air Force general serving as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since April 2025; former F-16 pilot and CIA associate director for military affairs.",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#C98F2D",
      "bg": "#3A2A12",
      "fg": "#F3EDE2"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Dan Caine",
    "role": "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff",
    "slug": "dan-caine"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Finnish politician serving as Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for tech sovereignty; former MEP and Finnish education minister.",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#E0A458",
      "bg": "#123A5C",
      "fg": "#EEF2F5"
    },
    "listUrl": null,
    "name": "Henna Virkkunen",
    "role": "European Commission Executive Vice-President",
    "slug": "henna-virkkunen"
  },
  {
    "bio": "Argentine diplomat directing the International Atomic Energy Agency since 2019; announced his candidacy for UN secretary-general in December 2025.",
    "category": "Leaders",
    "color": {
      "accent": "#D9982B",
      "bg": "#40210F",
      "fg": "#F4EEE3"
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