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Katie Couric's Top Book Recommendations

Want to know what books Katie Couric recommends on their reading list? We've researched interviews, social media posts, podcasts, and articles to build a comprehensive list of Katie Couric's favorite book recommendations of all time.

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From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks.

After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void, '" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe." Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told...
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Recommended by Katie Couric, Ee Ling Lim, and 2 others.

Katie CouricI felt it was really brave of [Sheryl Sandberg] to write. (Source)

Ee Ling LimThis book is about resilience, and I only wish there was such a book when I was younger. I was 18 when my dad passed away and it was something that I didn't talk about because I was so afraid of opening the floodgates. It hit me hard, the day my daughter commented that I didn't seem to miss my dad - because I never talked about him. (Source)

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