Margaret Atwood Recommended Books
Margaret Atwood has recommended 10 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.
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Saving Us
A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
"A must-read if we’re serious about enacting positive change from the ground up, in communities, and through human connections & human emotions." - Margaret Atwood (Source)
Merde!
The Real French You Were Never Taught at School
"An excellent book." - Margaret Atwood (Source)
Memorial Drive
A Daughter's Memoir
"A heartbreaking book." - Margaret Atwood (Source)
Weeds
In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants
Margaret Atwood recommended this book on Twitter. (Source)
Rats, Lice and History
"One of the classic non-fictions." - Margaret Atwood (Source)
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
"Also does pandemics." - Margaret Atwood (Source)
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"An amazing book." - Joe Rogan
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Bill Gates recommended this bookBill Gates
"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history." - Bill Gates
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Simon Sinek recommended this bookSimon Sinek
"Offers us a new and remarkably simple way of looking at our world." - Simon Sinek
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Daniel Ek recommended this bookDaniel Ek
"A brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning book about how the modern world was formed, analyzing how societies developed differently on different continents." - Daniel Ek
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Jesse Williams recommended this bookJesse Williams
"Helped rid me of the nagging incompleteness in my understood connection between the successes and failings of ancient and modern civilizations." - Jesse Williams
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- Stewart Brand
"The main [book by this author]." - Stewart Brand
- Patrick Arnold
"Gave a big eye opening on why certain people of the world are more advanced than others and behave a certain way, as opposed to just genetics and this person is smarter because of this or that." - Patrick Arnold
- Jamie Dimon
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- Mark Manson
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- James Clear
"[One of] the 10 best nonfiction books of all-time." - James Clear
- Stewart Brand
1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
"About what the Americas were like before (and during) the wipeout caused by European microbes + viruses." - Margaret Atwood (Source)
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"Every Latinx should read!" - John Leguizamo
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In the Lateness of the World
Poems
"Gives us some perspective." - Margaret Atwood (Source)
The Flu Pandemic and You
A Canadian Guide
"Sage, calm, realistic words by an epidemiologist and a Toronto doctor who was there for SARS." - Margaret Atwood (Source)
The Bronte Myth
"About the fall and rise of their literary reputations." - Margaret Atwood (Source)
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