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

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

by Michael A. Hiltzik
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

22. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

23. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover

24. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy
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Beautiful Code cover

25. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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How to Lie with Statistics cover

26. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff
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Basic Economics cover

27. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business cover

28. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

by Clayton M. Christensen
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

29. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

30. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

31. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage cover

32. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

by Cliff Stoll
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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

33. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

34. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho
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High Output Management cover

35. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove
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A Philosophy of Software Design cover

36. A Philosophy of Software Design

by John Ousterhout
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The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you cover

37. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

by Rob Fitzpatrick
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides) cover

38. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)

by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

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

by Jessica Livingston
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UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

40. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

by Brian W. Kernighan
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