Books recommended by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is one of the most influential politicians in Brazilian history. A metalworker who became a union leader, he founded the Workers' Party and served as President of Brazil for two terms (2003–2010), returning to office in 2023. His trajectory is marked by the rise of the working classes to the center of national political power.

The list of books he recommends reveals an eclectic curation, spanning critical analysis of Brazilian society — with works such as A Elite do Atraso, by Jessé Souza — and Latin American fiction, as in the case of Love in the Time of Cholera, by García Márquez. There is room for biography and poetry, such as the work about Belchior, for reflections on the future of humanity with Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari, and for topics such as feminism and left-wing politics. The set suggests a reader who values both political and historical debate and literary narrative rooted in popular culture.