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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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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

61. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics cover

62. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

63. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

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

by Tim Wu
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Making Software cover

65. Making Software

by Andrew Oram, Greg Wilson
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus cover

66. Quantum Computing Since Democritus

by Scott Aaronson
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Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom cover

67. Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom

by Richard A. Burgess
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma cover

68. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel A. Van der Kolk
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition cover

69. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition cover

70. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

by Betty Edwards
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Learning From Data cover

71. Learning From Data

by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Hsuan-Tien Lin
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win cover

72. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win

by Steve Blank
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty cover

73. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience cover

74. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition cover

75. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore
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Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK cover

76. Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

by John W. McCormick, Peter C. Chapin
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Finite and Infinite Games cover

77. Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse
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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

78. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by Thomas E. Pearsall
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics cover

79. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader
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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos cover

80. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

by Deborah Heiligman
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