Lists > Founder Favorites

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.
Showing 21 - 40 of 963 books
Python for Data Analysis cover

21. Python for Data Analysis

by Wes McKinney
Read 15 comments
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

22. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey
Read 15 comments
Fluent Python cover

23. Fluent Python

by Luciano Ramalho
Read 13 comments
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers cover

24. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

by Tom Standage
Read 13 comments
Programming Rust cover

25. Programming Rust

by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Leonora F. s. Tindall
Read 12 comments
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator cover

26. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

by Ryan Holiday
Read 12 comments
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

27. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
Read 12 comments
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

28. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries
Read 12 comments
21st Century C cover

29. 21st Century C

by Ben Klemens
Read 11 comments
Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom cover

30. Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom

by Richard A. Burgess
Read 11 comments
Software Engineering at Google cover

31. Software Engineering at Google

by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright
Read 10 comments
The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer cover

32. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray
Read 10 comments
The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

33. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

by Leland Wilkinson
Read 10 comments
Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure cover

34. Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure

by Transnational College of Lex
Read 10 comments
The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

35. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
Read 10 comments
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History cover

36. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne
Read 10 comments
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

37. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande
Read 10 comments
The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting cover

38. The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

by Jimmy Moore, Jason Fung
Read 9 comments
The Manager's Path cover

39. The Manager's Path

by Camille Fournier
Read 9 comments
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1) cover

40. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1)

by Peter Wohlleben
Read 9 comments