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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 Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

41. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen
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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

42. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott
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21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

43. 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

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

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

45. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston
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The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you cover

46. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

by Rob Fitzpatrick
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The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys cover

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

by James Fadiman
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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

48. 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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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

49. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt
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Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

50. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary
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The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

51. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

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

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

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

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives cover

54. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

by Jesse Eisinger
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Programming Rust, 2nd Edition cover

55. Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

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No bullshit guide to linear algebra cover

56. No bullshit guide to linear algebra

by Ivan Savov
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Fluent Python cover

57. Fluent Python

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Programming Rust cover

58. Programming Rust

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

59. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
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Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition cover

60. Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition

by Eric R. Kandel
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