I recently built a "bookshelf" which lets you see what books the Time 100 (2017) are reading based on what books they have tweeted about: https://parrotread.com/bookshelf/time-100-2017.

I hope you find it relevant. Would love to hear other ideas you have for bookshelves that would be especially relevant to the Book Talk.

You can see a list of some popular bookshelves I have already made here: https://parrotread.com/bookshelves.

Shoot me an email at [email protected] with ideas.

Cheers!

What a great idea. I had never considered that any list of "essential" books would reflect a certain perspective, but that perspective is usually unnamed. You've gone and sorted the books by particular interest groups. I like it and wonder how you went about it.

Yes, exactly. You are what you read, right?

We're trying to find interesting groups of people and check what they recommended on Twitter over time. As you mentioned, for each group you can quickly discover a lot about its people.

One of our popular bookshelves is the TED 2017 bookshelf (books recommended by TED 2017 speakers): https://parrotread.com/bookshelf/ted-2017-speakers. If you have ideas for more groups like this, I'd be happy to know - I can make more like this.

Interesting idea, but you should clarify what some of the shelves are about. I have no idea what "buffer employees", "Y combinators", "Seat Geeks", "Indie Hackers", or "Product Hunt" are. Obviously I am old.

Bill and Melinda Gates recommend a heck of a lot of books. So does Warren Buffet. Perhaps a list of books recommended by Top 10 billionaire businessmen would work. Although you already have the under 40 list.

Or something different like books recommended by baseball and football players?

With his notoriously short attention span, do you think President Trump read any of his recommendations?

BookTalk has a large shelf of books we have discussed:
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Great point, thanks a lot - following your feedback we added a link to the bookshelf's source, hopefully it will be easier to understand now.

Books recommended by baseball and football players is a nice idea, thank you!

LanDroid wrote: With his notoriously short attention span, do you think President Trump read any of his recommendations?

Holy crap, you weren't kidding. Trump really did recommend books. I would bet money that he has read zero of them from cover to cover. A substantial portion of those books praise him, which is probably why he chose them.

There are some people in the list who've recommended nothing. Putin, Pope Francis, and Colin Kaepernick for example.