01One Good Deed
“One of [Baldacci's] finest books. Great character, great story, great portrait of an era.”source

Bill Clinton, the 42nd U.S. President, has long been known as a heavy reader. In 2003 he released his 21 favorite books for a Clinton Library exhibit, and has since shared summer picks through outlets like CNBC. Books below come from his own lists and interviews, each source linked.
01“One of [Baldacci's] finest books. Great character, great story, great portrait of an era.”source
02“This one explains Israel's view of the neighbourhood.”source
03“Read this and you'll see what we're all up against in cyberspace.”source
04“On that fateful day, he spoke for America.”source
05“An irreverent look at our long embrace of fantasy for better and worse.”source
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07“Short powerful call for inclusive nationalism.”source
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09“Compelling tour of Bosnia by a seasoned diplomat and first-class storyteller.”source
10“I've read, enjoyed, and have learned a great deal from all of Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano books. He was a wise and gifted writer. I wish I had known him. He and Montalbano will be greatly missed.”source
13“Daniel Silva's 'House of Spies' is a great summer read.”source
14“Eric Hoffer's 'The True Believer.'”source
15“There are forks in the road to wealth that have nothing to do with choice or desire or effort, forks that have to do with chance.”source
16“Bold is a visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world and offers invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it.”source
17“I knew the people she was talking about, the problems she was documenting.”source
18“From the time I read 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' more than 40 years ago, I was always amazed by his unique gifts of imagination, clarity of thought, and emotional honesty.”source
19“Yes, briefly, I was. And then I remembered, I have waited so long for freedom. And if my anger goes with me out of this place I will still be their prisoner, and I want to be free.”source
20“His mind, heart, and his uniquely Irish gift for language made him our finest poet of the rhythms of ordinary lives and a powerful voice for peace.”source
21“Every day, technological innovations are giving people around the world new opportunities to shape their own destinies. In this fascinating book, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen draw upon their unique experiences to show us a future of rising incomes...”source
22“He had read Parting the Waters all the way through the footnotes, and the footnotes had set him off because they referred to presidential libraries.”source
23“Becker's book helped convince me it was an effort worth making.”source
24“rereading The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, and several of the most thoughtful letters I had received.”source
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29“The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century by David Fromkin.”source
30“King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild.”source
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32“Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics by Reinhold Niebuhr.”source
33“The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron.”source
34“You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe.”source
35“Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright.”source
36“The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats.”source
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39“As a student at Georgetown, I head [sic] that call clarified by a professor name Carol [sic] Quigley, who said to us that America was the greatest Nation in history because our people had always believed in two things, that tomorrow can be better than today and that every one of us has a personal moral responsibility to make it so.”source