Bloomberg’s annual survey of book recommendations by people smarter than us: Bloomberg says “many leaders from the worlds of academia, finance, industry, politics and technology turned to the pages of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J. D. Vance.”

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde chose Le Dernier des Nôtres by Adélaïde Clermont-Tonnerre and Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah Chayes.

McKinsey &Co’s Managing Director Dominic Barton says The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly contains “a brilliant argument for why the digitization of everything and the industrialization of ‘cognition’ are going to change the world far more profoundly than anything we have seen to date.” He also recommends The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan.

Eurasia Group’s President Ian Bremmer went for But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman and The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver.

Mohamed El-Erian’s picks were Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business by Rana Foroohar and the Alan Greenspan biography The Man Who Knew. The full list of contributors and their recommendations can be found here.