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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 Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics cover

561. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith

A Practical Guide to Data Analysis for Physical Science Students cover

562. A Practical Guide to Data Analysis for Physical Science Students

by Brian Arnold, Hannah Kingston, Emma Poole

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States cover

563. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

by James C. Scott

Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing) cover

564. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing)

by Mar Hicks

Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith cover

565. Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

by Sam Newman

Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library cover

566. Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library

by Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler

The Duke Nukem 3d Level Design Handbook (Duke Nukem Games) cover

567. The Duke Nukem 3d Level Design Handbook (Duke Nukem Games)

by Matt Tagliaferri

The Physics of Sorrow cover

568. The Physics of Sorrow

by Georgi Gospodinov

The Cure for Alcoholism: Drink Your Way Sober Without Willpower, Abstinence or Discomfort cover

569. The Cure for Alcoholism: Drink Your Way Sober Without Willpower, Abstinence or Discomfort

by Roy Eskapa, Roy D. Eskapa

Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol cover

570. Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol

by Katie Herzog

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Dragonfly Books) cover

571. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Dragonfly Books)

by Marjorie Priceman

Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy cover

572. Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy

by Vladik Khononov

Colossus cover

573. Colossus

by D. F. Jones

Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game cover

574. Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game

by Touraj Parang

The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind cover

575. The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

by B. Alan Wallace

Make Your Own Web Page!, A Guide for Kids - 1998 publication cover

576. Make Your Own Web Page!, A Guide for Kids - 1998 publication

by Ted Pedersen, Francis Moss

The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes: [A Cookbook] cover

577. The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes: [A Cookbook]

by Sam Sifton

The CIA World Factbook 2026-2027 cover

578. The CIA World Factbook 2026-2027

by Central Intelligence Agency

Byrne's Euclid: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams cover

579. Byrne's Euclid: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams

by Oliver Byrne

The CIA World Factbook 2025-2026 cover

580. The CIA World Factbook 2025-2026

by Central Intelligence Agency