Ezra Klein Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamin LabatutEzra KleinI think that book has a single best first chapter I’ve ever read in any book ever.
Paperback, 2021
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The Last White Man
Mohsin HamidEzra KleinI really loved it. I really recommend people listening pick it up. There’s so much beyond what you heard here. Thank you very much.
Paperback, 2023
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To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tommie ShelbyEzra KleinI loved this book. One of Terry’s projects is to force a confrontation with what King actually said and believed, rather than what he’s come to represent. And that confrontation, it is so worth having. He is so challenging and worth reading and worth struggling with today.
Paperback, 2020
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Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Vivek H. MurthyEzra KleinAn incredibly timely book…The world got a hell of a lot lonelier right after he published that. At any rate, he’s got an extraordinarily hard job here. But so do we all, actually.
Paperback, 2023
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Jennifer PahlkaEzra KleinIt’s a book I hope future governments and current governments will absorb…One thing she really does is tell clearly the stories and tell clearly the lessons she has seen and learned about why things go wrong even when the people involved are trying to make them go right.
Hardcover, 2023
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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris HayesEzra KleinI’ve read most of the books on attention out there. This one is, I think, the best at understanding the value of attention today... it is the world’s most valuable resource. And the people who are on top of the world right now understand its value.
Hardcover, 2025
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Abundance
Ezra KleinEzra KleinReally a wild thing to see this book take on such a life of its own.
Hardcover, 2025
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The Overstory
Richard PowersEzra KleinThree book recommendations from Richard Powers, author of "The Overstory" and "Bewilderment". (Our full conversation is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-richard-powers.html)
Paperback, 2019
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A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth OzekiEzra KleinGot a really lovely podcast with Ruth Ozeki, author of “A Tale for the Time Being” and “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” coming tomorrow. Excited for you to hear it.
Paperback, 2013
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Orfeo
Richard PowersEzra KleinI wish I could hear music the way Powers writes about it. But I am grateful I can read him write about it.
Paperback, 2014
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