Much like theatre, a good book has the power to transport one to worlds unknown. And with most of Broadway set to return in the fall, many performers have used the time to catch up on their summer reading list.
From Becoming by Michelle Obama to George Saunder's Lincoln in the Bardo, check out these 38 books Broadway stars have recommended as part of Playbill's "Checking In With" series.
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
An American Caddie in St. Andrews by Oliver Horovitz
How to Cheat at Everything by Simon Lovell
Lethal Agent by Kyle Mills
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
A Change of Time by ida Jessen
The One Second After series by William R. Forstchen
Milkman by Anna Burns
Rules for Other To Live By by Richard Greenberg
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America by Raymond Arsenault
Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
London Bridges by James Patterson
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Hannah's War by Jan Eliasberg
The Survivalist series by Arthur T. Bradley, Ph.D.
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff
The Street by Ann Petry
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Book by Yuval Noah Harari
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Art of Living by Epictetus
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
