Eric Liu’s Live Like a Citizen Reaches No. 66 on USA TODAY Best-Selling Booklist
23 Oct 2026
Just over a week after its October 13 release, Eric Liu’s latest book, Live Like a Citizen: 8 Ways to Change Your Mindset and Our Country, has reached No. 66 on the USA TODAY Best-selling Booklist.
The national list ranks the 150 top-selling books each week, bringing together sales across formats and booksellers. Reaching the list marks an exciting early milestone for Liu’s latest work and brings added attention to a book focused on one of the central questions of his career: what does it mean to practice citizenship in everyday life?
Rather than approaching citizenship only through politics or elections, Live Like a Citizen looks at the habits and choices that shape how people participate in their communities and relate to one another. Liu encourages readers to see civic life as something active and ongoing, built through attention, connection, participation, and a willingness to take responsibility for the communities we share.
The book continues themes Liu has explored throughout his work as an author, educator, and civic leader, while giving readers a practical framework for putting those ideas into action.
Live Like a Citizen: Eric Liu on Citizenship, Community, and Civic Life
In Live Like a Citizen, Liu offers eight practices for strengthening civic life: seeing, listening, feeling, joining, fighting, changing, imagining, and committing. Together, they provide a framework for moving beyond cynicism and disconnection toward greater participation, trust, and shared responsibility.
The book builds on Liu’s longtime work as co-founder and CEO of Citizen University, where he focuses on creating a culture of powerful and responsible citizenship. As a speaker, he brings those same ideas to audiences through conversations about civic engagement, leadership, community, American identity, and the future of democracy.
For organizations planning conversations around civic engagement, leadership, community, or democracy, the book offers timely context for the ideas Liu brings to audiences.
The bestseller milestone comes as Liu continues sharing the ideas behind Live Like a Citizen with audiences around the country, encouraging people to think of citizenship not simply as a status, but as something practiced through everyday choices and relationships.
+ Learn more about Eric Liu’s keynotes on citizenship, civic engagement, community, and democracy.
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