Ada’s Essential Reads
30 titles
The books Ada rates highest across the entire catalogue — timeless reads that earn their place regardless of when they were published.
An Immense World
Ed Yong
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Atomic Habits
James Clear
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Kindred
Octavia Butler, Octavia E. Butler
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl, Viktor E. Frankl
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
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Exhalation
Ted Chiang
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Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling
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Know My Name
Chanel Miller
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
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A Single Man
Christopher Isherwood
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Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Catch and Kill
Ronan Farrow
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Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk
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Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
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In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado
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Ironwood
Michael Connelly
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Just Kids
Patti Smith
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Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
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A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
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A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark
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A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
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Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
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Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough
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Becoming
Michelle Obama
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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
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Daring Greatly
Brené Brown
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Ranked by aggregate reader ratings across all 30 titles