The figures

Founders, investors, presidents, authors, scientists. Each card shows their latest picks at a glance. Open a profile for the full list with sources.

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

Cover of Chip War by Chris Miller

Cover of How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

Cover of King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

Oprah Winfrey

media executive and talk show host

Cover of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Cover of The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Cover of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Warren Buffett

chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway

Cover of Investing Between the Lines by Laura Rittenhouse

Cover of Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger

Cover of Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Bill Gates

Co-founder of Microsoft

Cover of Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Cover of Chasing Hope by Nicholas Kristof

Cover of Educated by Tara Westover

Elon Musk

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX

Cover of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

Cover of Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele

Cover of Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

Satya Nadella

CEO of Microsoft

Cover of Mindset by Carol S. Dweck

Cover of Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Cover of Prosperity by Colin Mayer

Sam Altman

CEO of OpenAI

Cover of Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman

Cover of Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Cover of Mind of Napoleon by J. Christopher Herold

Patrick Collison

co-founder and CEO of Stripe

Cover of Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos

Cover of Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger Jr.

Cover of Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger

Paul Graham

co-founder of Y Combinator

Cover of A Sense of Where You Are by John McPhee

Cover of Barbarian Days by William Finnegan

Cover of Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston

Reid Hoffman

Co-founder of LinkedIn

Cover of Conscious Business by Fred Kofman

Cover of Dune by Frank Herbert

Cover of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Naval Ravikant

Co-founder of AngelList

Cover of Influence by Robert Cialdini

Cover of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Cover of Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger

Jensen Huang

Founder and CEO of NVIDIA

Cover of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson

Cover of Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout

Cover of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Demis Hassabis

Co-founder of DeepMind and Nobel laureate

Cover of Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

Cover of Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

Tyler Cowen

Economist and author

Cover of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson

Cover of Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Cover of The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Luke Combs

Country music star

Jennie

K-pop star and solo artist

Keke Palmer

Actress, singer, TV host

Cover of Bossypants by Tina Fey

Cover of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Cover of Dear Black Girls by A'ja Wilson

Noah Wyle

Actor (ER, The Pitt)

Dakota Johnson

Actress

Cover of Audition by Katie Kitamura

The Ten Year Affair

Erin Somers

Cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Jafar Panahi

Iranian filmmaker

Claire Danes

Actress (Homeland)

Cover of Deception by Philip Roth

Cover of Light Years by James Salter

Cover of A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Benicio Del Toro

Actor

Cover of The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta

Cover of The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta

Cover of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Jonathan Groff

Actor (Hamilton, Mindhunter)

Cover of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Cover of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Cover of The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

Ranbir Kapoor

Bollywood actor

Cover of Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross

Cover of Open by Andre Agassi

Cover of Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando

Tayari Jones

Novelist, author of An American Marriage

Cover of How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley

Cover of Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Cover of The Overstory by Richard Powers

Noah Kahan

Folk-pop singer-songwriter

Cover of East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Cover of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Cover of Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Anderson .Paak

Musician, producer, drummer

Rhea Seehorn

Actress (Better Call Saul, Pluribus)

Cover of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Cover of Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Cover of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Coco Jones

R&B singer, actress (Bel-Air)

Freida McFadden

Bestselling thriller novelist (The Housemaid)

Cover of My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney

Cover of Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

Cover of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Wagner Moura

Brazilian actor (Narcos, The Secret Agent)

Kate Hudson

Actress (Almost Famous, Running Point)

Cover of Stoner by John Williams

Cover of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Alysa Liu

Olympic champion figure skater

Cover of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Cover of Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Hilary Duff

Actress, singer, YA author

Cover of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Alan Cumming

Actor and writer

Cover of The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway

Cover of The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Cover of The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Sterling K. Brown

Actor

Cover of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Cover of Erasure by Percival Everett

Ethan Hawke

Actor and writer

Cover of The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

Cover of Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Cover of The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell

Chloe Kim

Olympic snowboarder

Cover of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Cover of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Shirin Ebadi

Nobel Peace laureate and human rights lawyer

Cover of White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners by Narges Mohammadi

Walter Hood

Landscape architect

Cover of Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Cover of The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

Victoria Beckham

Fashion designer

Cover of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

Cover of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Rauw Alejandro

Reggaeton singer

Kica Matos

Immigration advocate

Zoe Saldaña

Actress

Cover of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Ben Stiller

Actor, director and producer

Cover of The Second Tree from the Corner by E. B. White

Cover of Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger

Cover of The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb

Aliko Dangote

Founder of Dangote Group

Scottie Scheffler

Professional golfer, world No. 1

Cover of The Bible by Various authors

Anok Yai

Model

Cover of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Cover of Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura

Cover of The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Ralph Lauren

Fashion designer, founder of Ralph Lauren Corporation

Lynsey Addario

Photojournalist and author

Susan Dell

Philanthropist, co-founder of Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Michael Dell

Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies

Cover of Business Adventures by John Brooks

Cover of The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike Jr.

Cover of The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Sundar Pichai

CEO of Alphabet and Google

Cover of Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle

Cover of Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Cover of The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

David Ellison

CEO of Paramount, founder of Skydance Media

Precious Matsoso

South African health official; WHO pandemic-treaty co-chair

Anne-Claire Amprou

France's ambassador for global health

Lip-Bu Tan

CEO of Intel; founder of Walden International

Cover of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Nikki Glaser

Comedian and TV host

Cover of Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Cover of Healing Back Pain by John E. Sarno

Cover of The Easy Way to Stop Drinking by Allen Carr

Hilary Knight

Captain, U.S. women's national ice hockey team

Cover of Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

Vikas Khanna

Chef, author, and filmmaker

Cover of Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey

Cover of Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Lando Norris

Formula 1 driver, McLaren

Mashama Bailey

Chef and co-owner of The Grey

Cover of In Pursuit of Flavor by Edna Lewis

Matthieu Blazy

Creative director of Chanel

Cover of On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Les Fées, Contes des Contes

Charles Perrault

Dario Amodei

CEO and co-founder of Anthropic

Cover of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Cover of Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey

Cover of The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Daniela Amodei

President and co-founder of Anthropic

Cover of The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Cover of The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Noah Lyles

Olympic sprinter, 100m champion

Cage of Eden

Yoshinobu Yamada

Yiyun Li

Novelist and MacArthur fellow

Cover of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Cover of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

Cover of Mouchette by Georges Bernanos

Tony Tyson

Founding director of Rubin Observatory

Cao Fei

Chinese multimedia artist

John Furner

CEO of Walmart

Jeremy Allaire

CEO and co-founder of Circle

Cover of Typhoon by Joseph Conrad

The Soccer War

Ryszard Kapuściński

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari

Indigenous environmental leader, Peru

Luciano Moreira

CEO of Wolbito do Brasil

Neal Mohan

CEO of YouTube

Night People

Mark Ronson

Sabrina Walter

Founder of Women for Change

Dolores Huerta

Labor leader and civil rights activist

Cover of Revolution from Within by Gloria Steinem

Homegrown Hate

Sara Kamali

We the Resistance

Michael G. Long

Reid Wiseman

NASA astronaut, Artemis II commander

Cover of Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson

Cover of Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals by Morris Mano

Josh D'Amaro

CEO of Disney Experiences

Mamadou Amadou Ly

Executive Director of ARED

Nancy Silverton

Chef, baker, restaurateur

Cover of The Zuni Cafe Cookbook by Judy Rodgers

Cover of Chez Panisse Cooking by Alice Waters

Cover of The French Menu Cookbook by Richard Olney

MrBeast

YouTuber and entrepreneur

Cover of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Cover of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

Cover of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Mariangela Hungria

Agricultural microbiologist

Cover of Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif

A Herança de Johanna Döbereiner para a Ciência Agrícola Brasileira e Mundial

Mariangela Hungria

C.C. Wei

Chairman and CEO of TSMC

Lauren Hersh

Anti-trafficking lawyer and advocate

Cover of Breaking Free by Abby Sher

Rachel Foster

Co-founder and President of World Without Exploitation

Shannon Minter

Legal Director, National Center for LGBTQ Rights

Zabib Musa Loro

Founder and Executive Director, Women for Justice and Equality

Sarah Friar

CFO of OpenAI

Cover of Range by David Epstein

Cover of Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam

Cover of How Women Rise by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith

Kiran Musunuru

Cardiologist and gene-editing researcher

Cover of The Kids' Whole Future Catalog by Paula Taylor

Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas

Physician-scientist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Pope Leo XIV

Head of the Catholic Church

Letter to Proba (Letter 130)

Augustine of Hippo

Cover of Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

Cover of The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

Claudia Sheinbaum

President of Mexico

Cover of Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez

Cover of La estructura de las revoluciones científicas by Thomas Kuhn

Cover of La Reina del Sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Marco Rubio

US Secretary of State

Cover of Courting Disaster by Marc Thiessen

Cover of Power, Faith, and Fantasy by Michael Oren

Cover of Decision Points by George W. Bush

Donald Trump

President of the United States

Cover of Triggered by Donald Trump Jr.

Cover of Talent Is Overrated by Geoff Colvin

Cover of The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Susie Wiles

White House Chief of Staff

Tarique Rahman

Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Mark Kelly

U.S. Senator from Arizona

Heather Gerken

President of the Ford Foundation

Dan Caine

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Henna Virkkunen

European Commission Executive Vice-President

Cover of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Cover of Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

Rafael Mariano Grossi

Director General of the IAEA

Mette Frederiksen

Prime Minister of Denmark

Jacob Frey

Mayor of Minneapolis

Fatih Birol

Executive Director of the IEA

Cover of World Energy Outlook by International Energy Agency

Cover of World Energy Investment by International Energy Agency

Cover of Energy Technology Perspectives by International Energy Agency

Mark Carney

Prime Minister of Canada

Zohran Mamdani

Mayor of New York City

Cover of The Gods of New York by Jonathan Mahler

Gwynne Shotwell

President and COO of SpaceX

Cover of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Gavin Newsom

Governor of California

Steve Witkoff

US Special Envoy

Xi Jinping

President of China

Cover of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Cover of Das Kapital by Karl Marx

Cover of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Sanae Takaichi

Prime Minister of Japan

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel

Cover of The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross

Cover of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Cover of World Order by Henry Kissinger

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah

President of Namibia

Balendra Shah

Mayor of Kathmandu

David Senra

Host of the Founders podcast

Cover of Against the Odds by James Dyson

Cover of Titan by Ron Chernow

Cover of Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger

Andrew Huberman

Neuroscientist, host of the Huberman Lab podcast

Cover of The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman & Michael E. Long

Cover of Deep Work by Cal Newport

Cover of The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss

Bryan Johnson

Entrepreneur, creator of the Blueprint longevity protocol

Cover of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Cover of Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

Cover of The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Codie Sanchez

Entrepreneur and investor, founder of Contrarian Thinking

Cover of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Cover of Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters

Cover of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

Jason Fried

Co-founder of 37signals, co-author of Rework

Cover of The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

Cover of Maverick by Ricardo Semler

Cover of Quiet by Susan Cain

Jeff Bezos

Founder of Amazon

Cover of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Cover of Dune by Frank Herbert

Cover of Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Lex Fridman

AI researcher, host of the Lex Fridman Podcast

Cover of Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

Cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

Cover of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Mark Zuckerberg

Co-founder and CEO of Meta

Cover of The End of Power by Moisés Naím

Cover of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Cover of The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker

Mohnish Pabrai

Value investor, founder of Pabrai Investment Funds

Cover of Am I Being Too Subtle? by Sam Zell

Cover of Has China Won? by Kishore Mahbubani

Cover of The Prize by Daniel Yergin

Peter Attia

Physician, author of Outlive, host of The Drive podcast

Cover of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman

Cover of Altered Traits by Daniel Goleman & Richard J. Davidson

Cover of I Don't Want to Talk About It by Terrence Real

Ray Dalio

Founder of Bridgewater Associates, author of Principles

Cover of The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant

Cover of River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins

Cover of The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Ryan Holiday

Author of The Obstacle Is the Way and The Daily Stoic

Cover of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Cover of Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

Cover of Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus

Sahil Bloom

Author of The 5 Types of Wealth, writer of The Curiosity Chronicle

Cover of The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

Cover of Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

Cover of When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson

Sam Parr

Founder of The Hustle, co-host of My First Million

Cover of Titan by Ron Chernow

Cover of The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

Cover of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Shaan Puri

Host of the My First Million podcast

Cover of Brothers Emanuel by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Cover of Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks

Cover of Grit by Angela Duckworth

Steve Jobs

Co-founder of Apple

Cover of Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Cover of The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

Cover of King Lear by William Shakespeare

Tim Ferriss

Author of The 4-Hour Workweek, host of The Tim Ferriss Show

Cover of Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

Cover of Awareness by Anthony de Mello

Cover of The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday

Tom Bilyeu

Co-founder of Quest Nutrition, host of Impact Theory

Cover of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Cover of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Cover of Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Tony Robbins

Author, speaker, and performance coach

Cover of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Cover of As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

Cover of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho