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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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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

21. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

22. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup
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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

23. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev
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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

24. 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

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

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

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

by Edward Glaeser
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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

27. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

28. 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

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

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Hacker's Delight cover

30. Hacker's Delight

by Henry S. Warren
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Beautiful Code cover

31. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid cover

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

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Basic Economics cover

33. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage cover

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

by Cliff Stoll
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Gödel's Proof cover

35. Gödel's Proof

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

36. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

37. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

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

by David Kushner
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High Output Management cover

39. High Output Management

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

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

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
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