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

21. 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

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

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

23. 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

24. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho
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The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

25. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen
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The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys cover

26. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys

by James Fadiman
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

27. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop
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21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

28. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

by Ben Klemens
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) cover

29. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

30. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Krste Asanović
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

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

by John J. Ratey
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The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

32. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto
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Programming Rust, 2nd Edition cover

33. Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

34. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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Fluent Python cover

35. Fluent Python

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

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

by Tom Standage
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults) cover

37. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

by Eric Schlosser
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No bullshit guide to math and physics cover

38. No bullshit guide to math and physics

by Ivan Savov
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The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain cover

39. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

by John E. Sarno
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

40. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu
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