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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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Algorithms cover

141. Algorithms

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

142. 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

143. 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

144. 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

145. Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay
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Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression cover

146. Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression

by W. A. Mathieu
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In cover

147. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

by Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton
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The Last Lecture cover

148. The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
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Head First Design Patterns cover

149. Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
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Circuits of the Mind cover

150. Circuits of the Mind

by Leslie G. Valiant
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion cover

151. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

by Paul Bloom
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sed & awk, 2nd Edition cover

152. sed & awk, 2nd Edition

by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins
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The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance cover

153. The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance

by Steven G. Rogelberg
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition cover

154. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition

by Patrick M. Lencioni
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Tragic Design cover

155. Tragic Design

by Jonathan Shariat. Cynthia Saucier Savard
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RESTful Web APIs cover

156. RESTful Web APIs

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The Geek Atlas cover

157. The Geek Atlas

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Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work cover

158. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

by Alex Petrov
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) cover

159. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)

by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race cover

160. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth
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