Social publisher Scribd last week announced the start of a year-long global literacy campaign that will feature an array of celebrity reading lists, and will encourage Scribd users to share their own lists and to donate to global literacy efforts, including the construction of libraries in India. The program, Read for A Cause, kicked off last week with a list from Deepak Chopra and features a new list every week. This week’s celebrity is chef Eric Ripert.
Ripert’s list includes four titles. There are two volumes of French poetry: Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs Du Mal and Jacque Prévert’s Paroles; the classic American novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; and Kitchen Confidential by Ripert’s friend Anthony Bourdain. (Ripert’s latest, Avec Eric, which Wiley published last month, doesn’t make an appearance.)
Other well-known people who’ve created reading lists on Scribd include Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, bestselling author Lee Child, and Google technology director Craig Silverstein.
