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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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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

41. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya
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The Soul of A New Machine cover

42. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

43. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber
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The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

44. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

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

by John J. Ratey
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains cover

46. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr
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iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library) cover

47. iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library)

by Marcel Weiher
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Programming Rust, 2nd Edition cover

48. Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

49. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
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Programming Pearls (ACM Press) cover

50. Programming Pearls (ACM Press)

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

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

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory cover

52. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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

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

by Tom Standage
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Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0) cover

54. Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0)

by Chris Okasaki
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

55. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
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The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development cover

56. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

by Donald G. Reinertsen
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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' cover

57. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Professor Sidney Dekker
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War cover

58. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

by Robert Coram
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Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition cover

59. Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition

by Eric R. Kandel
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Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator cover

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

by Ryan Holiday
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