2025 Pebble Beach Authors & Ideas Speaker Books

Bob Dotson

  • American Story, a Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
  • Make it Memorable 3rd Edition

David Eagleman

  • Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
  • The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World (co-authored by Anthony Brandt)
  • The Brain: The Story of You
  • Brain & Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective (co-authored by Jonathan Downar)
  • Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
  • The Safety Net: Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters
  • Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia (co-authored by Richard E. Cytowic)
  • Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives

Julia Flynn Siler

  • The House of Mondavi
  • Lost Kingdom
  • The White Devil’s Daughters

Thomas Fuller

  • The Boys of Riverside

Christopher R. Hill

  • Outpost: On the Front Lines of Diplomacy
  • Paperback version title — Outpost: A Diplomat at Work

Scott James

  • Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-year Search for Truth

Alka Joshi

  • Six Days in Bombay
  • The Henna Artist
  • The Perfumist of Paris

David Karger

  • 50 Oscar Nights

David M. Kennedy

  • Freedom From Fear
  • Over Here
  • WWII and the West it Wrought

Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell

  • Wild Rituals
  • Elephant Don
  • A Baby Elephant In The Wild
  • The Elephant Scientist

Susan Page

  • THE RULEBREAKER: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
  • THE MATRIARCH: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
  • MADAM SPEAKER: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power

Stephen Palumbi

  • The Extreme Life of the Sea

Todd S. Purdum

  • Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television 

Alan Shipnuck

  • LIV and Let Die
  • Phil
  • Bud, Sweat & Tees