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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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Circuits of the Mind cover

161. Circuits of the Mind

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

162. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

by Paul Bloom
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sed & awk, 2nd Edition cover

163. 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

164. 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

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

by Patrick M. Lencioni
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Tragic Design cover

166. Tragic Design

by Jonathan Shariat. Cynthia Saucier Savard
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RESTful Web APIs cover

167. RESTful Web APIs

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The Geek Atlas cover

168. The Geek Atlas

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

169. 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

170. 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

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

by Nicole Perlroth
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Counterexamples in Analysis cover

172. Counterexamples in Analysis

by Bernard R. Gelbaum, John M. H. Olmsted
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Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society cover

173. Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

by Eric A. Posner, Eric Glen Weyl
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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) cover

174. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Gregory Clark
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High Performance Python cover

175. High Performance Python

by Micha Gorelick
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The Art of the Metaobject Protocol cover

176. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

by Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow
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Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy (Mercatus Center at George Mason University) cover

177. Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy (Mercatus Center at George Mason University)

by Kevin Erdmann
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Engineering: A Compiler cover

178. Engineering: A Compiler

by Keith D. Cooper
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The 48 Laws of Power cover

179. The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene
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The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph cover

180. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

by Ryan Holiday
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