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Bill Clinton is a reader as well. Here's a list he compiled shortly after leaving office of his favorite 21 titles:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Meditations Marcus Aurelius
The Denial of Death Ernest Becker
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 Taylor Branch
Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton
Lincoln David Herbert Donald
The Four Quartets T.S. Eliot
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century David Fromkin
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes Seamus Heaney
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild
The Imitation of Christ Thomas a Kempis
Homage to Catalonia George Orwell
The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis Carroll Quigley
Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics Reinhold Niebuhr
The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
Politics as a Vocation Max Weber
You Can't Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny Robert Wright
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats William Butler Yeats
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