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Top Business Books Recommended by Founders

The Top Entrepreneurs podcast has interviewed 900+ founders. Each CEO shares their favorite book. This list highlights the most popular.
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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

1. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate
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Code cover

2. Code

by Charles Petzold
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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

3. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

4. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

5. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers
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C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

6. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

7. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

8. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns
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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

9. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

10. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

11. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

12. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann
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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

13. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman
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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

14. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

15. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik
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The Non-Designer's Design Book cover

16. The Non-Designer's Design Book

by Robin Williams
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A Philosophy of Software Design cover

17. A Philosophy of Software Design

by John Ousterhout
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Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0) cover

18. Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0)

by Chris Okasaki
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

19. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

20. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya
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