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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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Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition) cover

41. Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition)

by Robert Love
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) cover

42. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)

by Clayton M. Christensen
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers cover

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

by Tom Standage
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The Nature of Paleolithic Art cover

44. The Nature of Paleolithic Art

by R. Dale Guthrie
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Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking cover

45. Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking

by Nathan Myhrvold
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Hacker's Delight cover

46. Hacker's Delight

by Henry S. Warren
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine cover

47. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael M. Lewis
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

48. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann
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Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition) cover

49. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)

by Josef Müller-Brockmann
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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

50. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey A. Silverglate
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set cover

51. The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set

by Donald Knuth
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The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money cover

52. The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

by Bryan Caplan
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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming cover

53. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit
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From Bauhaus to Our House cover

54. From Bauhaus to Our House

by Tom Wolfe
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance cover

55. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett
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What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods cover

56. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction cover

57. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip Eyrikson Tetlock, Dan Gardner
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition cover

58. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

by Marc Reisner
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Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition cover

59. Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

60. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows
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