246 Books Billionaires Read

Principles

Life and Work

by Ray Dalio

Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

Play Nice But Win

A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader

by Michael Dell

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

The Innovator's Dilemma

When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

by Clayton M. Christensen

Poor Charlie's Almanack

The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

by Charlie Munger

Snow Crash

A Novel

by Neal Stephenson

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

Blitzscaling

The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman

Only the Paranoid Survive

How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

by Andrew S. Grove

Shoe Dog

A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

by Phil Knight

Zero to One

Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman

Antifragile

Incerto, Book 3

by Nassim Taleb

Good to Great

Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

by Jim Collins

Measure What Matters

How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

by John Doerr

The Art Of War

by Sun Tzu

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

The Lean Startup

How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

The Rational Optimist

How Prosperity Evolves

by Matt Ridley

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

7 Powers

The Foundations of Business Strategy

by Hamilton Helmer

Becoming Steve Jobs

The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

by Brent Schlender

Business Adventures

Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

by John Brooks

Crossing the Chasm

Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

by Geoffrey A. Moore

Cryptonomicon

by Neal Stephenson

Einstein

His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson

Getting to Yes

Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

by Roger Fisher

Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

Lean In

Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

by Sheryl Sandberg

Mindset

The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck

Originals

How Non-Conformists Move the World

by Adam Grant

Outliers

The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell

Team of Rivals

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Black Swan

Incerto, Book 2

by Nassim Taleb

The Changing World Order

Why Nations Succeed and Fail

by Ray Dalio

The Outsiders

Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

by William N. Thorndike

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

by Robert J. Gordon

The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

by Yuval Noah Harari

Abundance

The Future Is Better Than You Think

by Peter Diamandis

Benjamin Franklin

An American Life

by Walter Isaacson

Built to Last

Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

by Jim Collins

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Piketty

Dear Founder

Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business

by Maynard Webb

Designing Brand Identity

An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team

by Alina Wheeler

Destined for War

Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

by Graham Allison

Factfulness

Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling

Homo Deus

A Brief History of Tomorrow

by Yuval Noah Harari

How To Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

Keeping At It

The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government

by Paul A. Volcker

Loonshots

How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

by Safi Bahcall

Lying

by Sam Harris

Made to Stick

Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

by Chip Heath

Masters of Doom

How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

New Power

How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--and How to Make It Work for You

by Jeremy Heimans

Range

Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

by David J. Epstein

Sam Walton

Made In America

by Sam Walton

Skin in the Game

Incerto, Book 5

by Nassim Taleb

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

Stuff Matters

Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

by Mark Miodownik

The 4-Hour Workweek

Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by Tim Ferriss

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

The Checklist Manifesto

How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

The Courage to Be Disliked

The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

by Ichiro Kishimi

The Dream Machine

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Idea Factory

Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner

The Mythical Man-Month

Essays on Software Engineering

by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

The Network State

How To Start a New Country

by Balaji Srinivasan

The Politics Industry

How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy

by Katherine M. Gehl

The Ride of a Lifetime

Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

by Robert Iger

The Score Takes Care of Itself

My Philosophy of Leadership

by Bill Walsh

Trailblazer

The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change

by Marc Benioff

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

Whole Earth Discipline

Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

by Stewart Brand

A Conflict of Visions

Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

by Thomas Sowell

A Full Life

Reflections at Ninety

by Jimmy Carter

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Novel

by Amor Towles

A Guide to the Good Life

The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B. Irvine

A Piece of the Action

How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class

by Joe Nocera

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

A Whole New Mind

Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

by Daniel Pink

Accidental Presidents

Eight Men Who Changed America

by Jared Cohen

Alpha Girls

The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

by Julian Guthrie

An American Marriage

A Novel

by Tayari Jones

An Elegant Defense

The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

by Matt Richtel

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

As I Lay Dying

The Corrected Text

by William Faulkner

Autobiography of a Yogi

by Paramahansa Yogananda

Awakening Joy

10 Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness

by James Baraz

Behave

The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

by Robert M. Sapolsky

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Box Thinking

The Surprising Truth About Success

by Matthew Syed

Blink

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell

Blueprint

The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

by Nicholas A. Christakis

Born a Crime

Stories from a South African Childhood

by Trevor Noah

Brotopia

Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

by Emily Chang

Competing Against Luck

The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

by Clayton M. Christensen

Conscious Business

How to Build Value Through Values

by Fred Kofman

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

Deep Learning

by Ian Goodfellow

Don't Make Me Think

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

by Steve Krug

Educated

A Memoir

by Tara Westover

Ender's Game

Ender Saga, Book 1

by Orson Scott Card

Energy

A Beginner's Guide

by Vaclav Smil

Expert Political Judgment

How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

by Philip E. Tetlock

Financial Shenanigans

How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports

by Howard M. Schilit

Flow

The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Fooled by Randomness

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

by Nassim Taleb

Founders at Work

Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

From Bacteria to Bach and Back

The Evolution of Minds

by Daniel C. Dennett

Future Forward

Leadership Lessons from Patrick McGovern, the Visionary Who Circled the Globe and Built a Technology Media Empire

by Glenn Rifkin

Genome

The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

by Matt Ridley

Getting Things Done

The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Hackers & Painters

Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

Hard Drive

Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

by James Wallace

Hard Landing

The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos

by Thomas Petzinger Jr.

High Growth Handbook

by Elad Gil

Hillbilly Elegy

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J. D. Vance

Hit Refresh

The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

by Satya Nadella

Holy Bible

by -

Hopping over the Rabbit Hole

How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success

by Anthony Scaramucci

How Asia Works

by Joe Studwell

How to Change Your Mind

What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

by Michael Pollan

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where is Everybody?

Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb

In the Plex

How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy

Influence

The Psychology of Persuasion

by Robert Cialdini

Jack

Straight from the Gut

by Jack Welch

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

by Richard Bach

Just Mercy

A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson

Leadership and Self-Deception

Getting Out of the Box

by The Arbinger Institute

Leonardo da Vinci

by Walter Isaacson

Life 3.0

Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Max Tegmark

Liftoff

Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

by Eric Berger

Lights Out

Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

by Thomas Gryta

Living with a SEAL

31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

by Jesse Itzler

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Lone Survivor

The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

by Marcus Luttrell

Longitude

The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Mountains Beyond Mountains

The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

by Tracy Kidder

On Immunity

An Inoculation

by Eula Biss

On Intelligence

How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

by Jeff Hawkins

On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Open

An Autobiography

by Andre Agassi

Physics of the Future

How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

by Michio Kaku

Power Up

How Smart Women Win in the New Economy

by Magdalena Yesil

Pride in Performance

Keep It Going!

by Les Schwab

Radical Candor

Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

by Kim Scott

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

Reinventing Fire

Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era

by Amory Lovins

Revolutionary Wealth

by Alvin Toffler

Rework

by David “DHH” Heinemeier Hansson

Scale

The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey West

Security Analysis

by Benjamin Graham

Showing Up for Life

Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime

by Bill Gates Sr.

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

Strength in Stillness

The Power of Transcendental Meditation

by Bob Roth

Stress Test

Reflections on Financial Crises

by Timothy F. Geithner

Supermoney

by Adam Smith

Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success

by Jim Dethmer

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

by Stephen R. Covey

The Age of Napoleon

The Story of Civilization, Book 11

by Will & Ariel Durant

The Airbnb Story

How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy

by Leigh Gallagher

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Learning to Learn

by Richard W. Hamming

The Art Spirit

by Robert Henri

The Beginning of Infinity

Explanations That Transform the World

by David Deutsch

The Blind Watchmaker

Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

by Richard Dawkins

The Bonfire of the Vanities

A Novel

by Tom Wolfe

The Box

How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

The Coming Wave

Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman

The Corrections

A Novel

by Jonathan Franzen

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

The Diamond Age

Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

by Neal Stephenson

The Dip

A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

by Seth Godin

The Effective Executive

The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

by Peter F. Drucker

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

From Marathon to Waterloo

by Edward Shepherd Creasy

The Future of Capitalism

Facing the New Anxieties

by Paul Collier

The Gene

An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Giving Tree

by Shel Silverstein

The Goal

A Process of Ongoing Improvement

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The Godfather

The Godfather, Book 1

by Mario Puzo

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

The Iliad

by Homer

The Inner Game of Tennis

The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

by W. Timothy Gallwey

The Intelligent Investor

by Benjamin Graham

The Last Days of Night

A Novel

by Graham Moore

The Law

by Frédéric Bastiat

The Lessons of History

by Will & Ariel Durant

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

by John C. Bogle

The Long Tail

Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More

by Chris Anderson

The Making of a Manager

What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

by Julie Zhuo

The Man Behind the Microchip

Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

by Leslie Berlin

The Martian

A Novel

by Andy Weir

The Master Algorithm

How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

by Pedro Domingos

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Moment of Lift

How Empowering Women Changes the World

by Melinda Gates