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138 Best Books of All Time
... And Greatest Novels!

(according to 600+ really successful people)

Leading minds in business, entertainment, and tech are always asked
"what books would you recommend?"
We've collected and analyzed their responses 😊

Sources include interviews, biographies, podcast transcripts, public online lists (e.g., Oprah's book club), and more out the wazoo.

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25 Recommenders

23 Recommenders

  1. Atlas Shrugged

    Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand

19 Recommenders

  1. Meditations

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

  2. Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

9 Recommenders

  1. One Hundred Years of Solitude

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  2. Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs

    Walter Isaacson

  3. The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  4. The Magic of Thinking Big

    The Magic of Thinking Big

    David J. Schwartz

8 Recommenders

  1. Ready Player One

    Ready Player One

    Ernest Cline

  2. Mastery

    Mastery

    Robert Greene

  3. The Road

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

  4. Between the World and Me

    Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

  5. The Catcher in the Rye

    The Catcher in the Rye

    J.D. Salinger

  6. When Breath Becomes Air

    When Breath Becomes Air

    Paul Kalanithi

  7. Autobiography of a Yogi

    Autobiography of a Yogi

    Paramahansa Yogananda

  8. Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell

  9. The Denial of Death

    The Denial of Death

    Ernest Becker

  10. The Prince

    The Prince

    Niccolò Machiavelli

  11. The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    Ernest Hemingway

  12. Rework

    Rework

    David “DHH” Heinemeier Hansson

  13. The Lessons of History

    The Lessons of History

    Will & Ariel Durant

  14. What We Owe the Future

    What We Owe the Future

    William MacAskill

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