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Barack Obama
US President

Team of Rivals
Dorris Kearns Goodwin

It's a remarkable study in leadership.

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Bill Gates
Businessman

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

I have read it so many times that I can quote large portions of it from memory.

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Lily Allen
Musician

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Marina Lewycka

Very funny and touching.

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Ian Rankin
Writer

A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess

I became a writer, thanks to this book.

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Bob Dylan
Musician

On the Road
Jack Kerouac

It changed my life, like it changed everybody else's.

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Florence Welch
of Florence and the Machine

Legend of a Suicide
David Vann

It is such a tender, heartbreaking, breathtaking, horrifying and insanely compelling read...I implore anyone with functioning eyes to read this book.

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Cherie Blair
Barrister

The Help
Kathryn Stockett

It shows how, despite the lack of equality distorting the realtionships between the women, there was room for genuine friendship and affection, as well as incredible callousness.

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