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2600 books recommended by founders, investors, and thought leaders.
Working Backwards
Colin Bryar
4 recs
How Innovation Works
Matt Ridley
3 recs
The Great Escape
Angus Deaton
2 recs
Elements of Information Theory
Thomas M. Cover
How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff
The Black Jacobins
C.L.R. James
Why Liberalism Failed
Patrick J. Deneen
Rules for Radicals
Saul D. Alinsky
Working in Public
Nadia Eghbal
The Deficit Myth
Stephanie Kelton
Play Bigger
Al Ramadan
Academically Adrift
Richard Arum
1 recs
Getting Better
Charles Kenny
The Diary of Anais Nin
Anais Nin
Broken Genius
Joel N. Shurkin
The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje
Essays In Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Robert Crichton
The War on the West
Douglas Murray
Going Red
Ed Morrissey
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
John Watson
Chess for Zebras
Jonathan Rowson
Black Rednecks & White Liberals
Thomas Sowell
The Fifties
David Halberstam
The Amateur's Mind
Jeremy Silman
Rapid Chess Improvement
Michael De La De Maza
Janesville
Amy Goldstein
The Shadow of Sirius
W.S. Merwin
Visual Complex Analysis
Tristan Needham
Innumeracy
John Allen Paulos
The Future Is Asian
Parag Khanna
The Big Book of New American Humor
William Novak
The Teachings of Don Juan
Carlos Castaneda
Directing Actors
Judith Weston
Before the Fall
Noah Hawley
Hannah Versus the Tree
Leland de la Durantaye
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Fareed Zakaria
The Souvenir Museum
Elizabeth McCracken
Graceland, At Last
Margaret Renkl
Battle for the Soul
Edward-Isaac Dovere
