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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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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation cover

121. 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

122. 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

123. 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

124. 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

125. 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

126. Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra
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Land of Lisp cover

127. Land of Lisp

by Conrad Barski
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Algorithms cover

128. Algorithms

by Jeff Erickson
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice cover

129. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

by Shunryū Suzuki
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Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition cover

130. Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition

by Jeffrey Friedl
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) cover

131. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon
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Motel of the Mysteries cover

132. Motel of the Mysteries

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

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

by Kim Zetter
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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance cover

134. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

by W. Timothy Gallwey
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Official Marimba Guide to Bongo cover

135. Official Marimba Guide to Bongo

by Danny Goodman
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter cover

136. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

by Richard Phillips Feynman, A. Zee
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The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking cover

137. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

by Saifedean Ammous
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Clojure Programming cover

138. Clojure Programming

by Chas Emerick. Brian Carper. Christophe Grand
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art cover

139. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

by James Nestor
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Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To cover

140. Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
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