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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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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

21. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B. Irvine
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

22. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

23. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

24. 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

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

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

26. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

27. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser
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Hacker's Delight cover

28. Hacker's Delight

by Henry S. Warren
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Beautiful Code cover

29. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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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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Basic Economics cover

31. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell
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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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Gödel's Proof cover

33. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman
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Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller cover

34. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

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

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

36. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

37. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner
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High Output Management cover

38. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet cover

39. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

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

by James C. Scott
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