Ever wondered if your favorite author has a TED Talk? In honor of the #TEDReads initiative and National Book Month, check out these twelve authors who have given TED Talks.  All of the authors' books are available at The New York Public Library with your free library card. 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

TED Talk: The Danger of a Single Story
Browse Books

Start with Purple Hibiscus

Roxane Gay

TED Talk: Confessions of a Bad Feminist
Browse Books

Start with An Untamed State (fiction); Bad Feminist (nonfiction)

Pico Iyer

TED Talk: Where Is Home?
Browse Books

Start with 

Cuba and the Night (Fiction); Video Night in Kathmandu (Nonfiction)

Isabel Allende

TED Talk: Tales of Passion
Browse Books

Start with The House of Spirits

Lidia Yuknavitch

TED Talk: The Beauty of Being a Misfit
Browse Books

Start with The Book of Joan (fiction); The Chronology of Water (nonfiction)

Mac Barnett

TED Talk: Why a Good Book is a Secret Code
Browse Books

Start with The Terrible Two

Tracy Chevalier

TED Talk: Finding the Story Inside the Painting
Browse Books

Start with Girl With a Pearl Earring

Young-Ha Kim 

TED Talk: Be an Artist Right Now!
Browse Books

Start with Diary of a Murderer

Amy Tan

TED Talk: Where Does Creativity Hide?
Browse Books

Start with The Joy Luck Club

Elif Shafak

TED Talk: The Politics of Fiction
Browse Books

Start with The Bastard of Istanbul

Karen Thompson Walker

TED Talk: What Fear Can Teach Us
Browse Books

Start with The Age of Miracles

Elizabeth Gilbert 

TED Talk: Success, Failure and the Drive to Keep Creating
Browse Books

Start with The Signature of All Things (fiction); Eat, Pray, Love (nonfiction)