How do we best navigate the promises and pitfalls of artificial intelligence? What can we learn from America’s past to inform our future? How are relationships and romance changing in the 21st century? What can be done about democratic backsliding around the globe? And what are the ingredients for a meaningful life in the modern world?
These topics and more are highlighted in a bounty of books from our 2023 speakers. Get to know their recent releases below.
Alchemy: The Material World of David Adjaye, Spencer Bailey and David Adjaye
India Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy, Ravi Agrawal
Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances, Kwame Alexander
In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials, Spencer Bailey
The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants, Karen Bakker
Herbert Bayer's World Geo-Graphic Atlas and Information Design at Mid-Century, Benjamin Benus
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter, Kai Bird
Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It, Heather Boushey
The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days, Kate Bowler
Little Monsters, Adrienne Brodeur
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life, Arthur Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, David Brooks
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women, Susan Burton et al.
Accountability Reconsidered: Voters, Interests, and Information in US Policymaking, Brandice Canes-Wrone et al.
Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of Democracy, Jennifer Carlson
Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing China and Russia, Jessica Chen Weiss et al.
The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, Elbridge Colby
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret, Catherine Coleman Flowers
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization, Peter Coleman
Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say, Kelly Corrigan
Going There, Katie Couric
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat, Brian Cox
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents, Lisa Damour
The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave
My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist, Sadanand Dhume
Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America, Lee Drutman
Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, Christine Emba
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology, Nita Farahany
The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World, Bruce Feiler
Eating from Our Roots: 80+ Healthy Home-Cooked Favorites from Cultures Around the World, Maya Feller
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech, Franklin Foer
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, Jamie Ford
The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech, Mary Anne Franks
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, Thomas Friedman
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, Eddie Glaude Jr.
The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate, Phil Gramm et al.
It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable―And How We Can Stop It, Jonathan Greenblatt
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe, Brian Greene
I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, Mónica Guzmán
Everything Beautiful in Its Time: A Family Journal, Jenna Bush Hager
The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea, Shadi Hamid
Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe, Jane Harman
Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World, Brian Hooks et al.
The Age of AI and Our Human Future, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher, et al.
Fat Ham, James Ijames
Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy, Martin Indyk
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, Walter Isaacson
Think Bigger: How to Innovate, Sheena Iyengar
Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump, Neal Kumar Katyal
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America, Don Katz
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier, Kevin Kelly
It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs, Mary Louise Kelly
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined, Sal Khan
Friendship as Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation, Samuel Kimbriel
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters, Steven Koonin
Next!: The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work, Joanne Lipman
Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy, Eric Liu
The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free, Rich Lowry
The Vanishing American Dream: A Frank Look at the Economic Realities Facing Middle- and Lower-Income Americans, Gene Ludwig
Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped U.S.-India Relations During the Cold War, Tanvi Madan
The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe, John Mather et al.
Standing Our Ground: The Triumph of Faith Over Gun Violence: A Mother's Story, Lucy McBath
Superpower in Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America, David McCormick
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, John McWhorter
Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times, Alison McQueen
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, Jon Meacham
Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels, Andrea Mitchell
Two Billion Caliphs: A Vision of a Muslim Future, Haroon Moghul
Picking Presidents: How To Make The Most Consequential Decision in the World, Guatam Mukunda
Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government, Clark Neily
The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome, Alondra Nelson
Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All, Suzanne Nossel
The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason, Josiah Ober
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education, John Palfrey
Football's Secret Trade: How the Player Transfer Market was Infiltrated, Tariq Panja et al.
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, Annie Murphy Paul
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, Imani Perry
The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, Catherine Price
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, Robert Putnam
Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World, Jonathan Reckford
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot, Mehran Sahami, Rob Reich, et al.
How to Stand up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, Maria Ressa
Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives, Stephen Roach
Conversation With RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty and Law, Jeffrey Rosen
The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream, David Rubenstein
Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi, Sigal Samuel
The Creative Classroom: Innovative Teaching for 21st-Century Learners, Keith Sawyer
Savage Love From A to Z: Advice on Sex and Relationships, Dating and Mating, Exes and Extras, Dan Savage
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell, Eric Schmidt et al.
The 30-Day Alzheimer's Solution: The Definitive Food and Lifestyle Guide to Preventing Cognitive Decline, Dean and Ayesha Sherzai
The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life, Simran Jeet Singh
Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld
You and Your Adult Child: How to Grow Together in Challenging Times, Laurence Steinberg
Which Side of History: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy & Our Lives, Jim Steyer
Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion, Wendy Suzuki
The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine?, Shibley Telhami et al.
Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life, Gillian Tett
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living, Krista Tippett
Blackface (Object Lessons), Ayanna Thompson
The Middle Out: The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity, Michael Tomasky
Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws, Geoff Tuff et al.
The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most, Miroslav Volf et al.
From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth, Darren Walker
The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy, Stephen Walt
Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, Rainn Wilson
Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy, Andrew Yang
Solito: A Memoir, Javier Zamora