Kent recommends "The Ascent of Money," by British historian Niall Ferguson. The book traces the role of cash from Mesopotamia to today.
"I love books on economic observations," he said. "This is one of the best."
Since Winfrey was a little girl, her favorite book has been Harper Lee's staggering coming of age story.
"I remember reading this book and then going to class and not being able to shut up about it," she said. "I read it in eighth or ninth grade, and I was trying to push the book off on other kids. So it makes sense to me that now I have a book club, because I have been doing that since probably this book."
Zuckerberg may be a poster boy for millennial progress, but the Facebook founder's reading taste skews classical.
His favorite: "The Aeneid" 
by Virgil, an epic poem that tells the the story of Aeneas, a legendary hero associated with the birth of Rome and the fall of Troy.
by Virgil, an epic poem that tells the the story of Aeneas, a legendary hero associated with the birth of Rome and the fall of Troy.
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