How do we build responsible A.I.? What should we know in the run-up to the 2024 election? How can we address humanitarian crises around the globe? What are our best bets for fighting climate change? And how can we sustain healthy relationships in the modern world?
These topics and more are highlighted in a bounty of books from our 2024 speakers. Get to know their recent releases below.
Explore Booksellers is your on-campus bookstore for Aspen Ideas Festival. The Festival Bookstore will be stocked with speakers' books and similarly themed materials. Want to start reading now? Shop Explore's 2024 Festival booklist here.
Crossing Boundaries: A Traveler’s Guide to World Peace, Aziz Abu Sarah
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom, Arash Azizi
White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy, William Barber II
How the Body Knows Its Mind: The Surprising Power of the Physical Environment to Influence How You Think and Feel, Sian Beilock
Choke, Sian Beilock
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, Jonathan Blitzer
Shameless, Nadia Bolz-Weber
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, David Brooks
Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath, Bill Browder
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor—The Truth and The Turmoil, Tina Brown
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, Vincent Brown
How to Be A Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity, Jill Burke
The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy, Vishaan Chakrabarti
The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center, Rhaina Cohen
And Then We Rise, Common
Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say, Kelly Corrigan
The Longevity Economy: Unlocking the World's Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market, Joseph Coughlin
Going There, Katie Couric
Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage, Dan Crenshaw
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, Charles Duhigg
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir, Griffin Dunne
Working Together (Why Great Partnerships Succeed), Michael Eisner
Maritime Gray Zone Operations: Challenges and Countermeasures in the Indo-Pacific, Andrew Erickson
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, Niall Ferguson
How to Baby: A No-Advice-Given Guide to Motherhood, with Drawings, Liana Finck
Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness, Renée Fleming
American Mother, Diane Foley
What Can I Do? The Path from Climate Despair to Action, Jane Fonda
The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy, Natalie Foster
We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking For, Eddie Glaude
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, Jeff Goodell
All That Happiness Is: Some Words on What Matters, Adam Gopnik
Watergate: A New History, Garrett Graff
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, Brian Grazer
Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud, Stephen Greenblatt
The opposite of woe, John Hickenlooper
Unflinching Courage, Kay Bailey Hutchison
Phantom Orbit: A Thriller, David Ignatius
Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph, Sheila Johnson
The Gist of Bid Whist: The Culturally-Rich Card Game from Black America, Lamont Jones
Then Comes Marriage: How Two Women Fought for and Won Equal Dignity for All, Roberta Kaplan
It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs, Mary Louise Kelly
Every Day is Extra, John Kerry
Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life, Nicholas Kristof
A Question of RESPECT: Bringing Us Together in a Deeply Divided Nation, Celinda Lake
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream, David Leonhardt
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, Michael Lewis
The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy, Mike Madrid
What This Comedian Said Will Shock You, Bill Maher
Lessons from past heroes, Phumlani M. Majozi
The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity, Michael Murphy
The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary, Melissa Murray
Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All, Suzanne Nossel
Joaquin's First School Shooting, Manuel Oliver
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine, David Petraeus
I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan, Katie Porter
Mindset Matters: The Power of College to Activate Lifelong Growth, Dan Porterfield
The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans, Aliza Pressman
Popular: Finding Happiness and Success in a World That Cares Too Much About the Wrong Kinds of Relationships, Mitch Prinstein
Everyday Watercolor Seashores: A Modern Guide to Painting Shells, Jenna Rainey
A Subversive's Guide to Improvisation: Moving Beyond "Yes, And", David Razowsky
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, Richard Reeves
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America, Jeffrey Rosen
How to Invest: Masters on the Craft, David Rubenstein
The Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in Changing, Judy Samuelson
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, Lucy Sante
Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think), Reshma Saujani
Bauhaus Typography at 100, Rob Saunders
Savage Love From A to Z: Advice on Sex and Relationships, Dating and Mating, Exes and Extras, Dan Savage
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations, Simon Schama
How to Talk About Guns with Anyone, Katherine Schweit
The World: A Family History of Humanity, Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World, Sharon Brous
What's In Your Box?: Designing the Life You Want, Linda Singh
The Light We Give, Simran Jeet Singh
Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust In an Age of Doubt, Paul Sutter
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the twenty-first century, Mustafa Suleyman
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, Kara Swisher
Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology, Audrey Tang
Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance, Ramie Targoff
Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life, Gillian Tett
New Power, Henry Timms
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments, Erin Thompson
The Winchester: The Gun That Built an American Dynasty, Laura Trevelyan
Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon
Need, Speed, and Greed, Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
Geoengineering: the Gamble, Gernot Wagner
All the Colors of the Dark, Chris Whitaker
True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between, Gretchen Whitmer
This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life, Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor
Say the Right Thing: How to talk about Identity, Diversity, and Justice, Kenji Yoshino
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, Fareed Zakaria
War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine, Mikhail Zygar