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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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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) cover

101. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Jez Humble
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The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact cover

102. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

by Edmond Lau
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The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement cover

103. The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford
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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager cover

104. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

by Michael Lopp
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading cover

105. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism cover

106. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

by James W. Loewen
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution cover

107. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence cover

108. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

by Michael Pollan
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Non-Designer's Design Book, The cover

109. Non-Designer's Design Book, The

by Robin Williams
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Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials) cover

110. Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials)

by Geoffrey A. Moore
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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation cover

111. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

by Edward Chancellor
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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) cover

112. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind cover

113. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

by Jack Trout, Al Ries
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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition) cover

114. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)

by Gerald M. Weinberg
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective cover

115. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman
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Badass: Making Users Awesome cover

116. Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra
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The Design of the UNIX Operating System cover

117. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

by Maurice J. Bach
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Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work) cover

118. Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work)

by Joshua Spodek
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A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2) cover

119. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, 2)

by Vernor Vinge
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon cover

120. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

by Kim Zetter
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