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102 Best Books of All Time

(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 😊

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102 Best Books of All Time

17

The War of Art

Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

by Steven Pressfield

19

The Lean Startup

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

by Eric Ries

27

Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

28

How to Change Your Mind

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

by Michael Pollan

30

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

by Stephen R. Covey

32

The Four Agreements

A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

by Don Miguel Ruiz

34

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

Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman

36

Good to Great

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

by Jim Collins

39

Bird by Bird

Some Instructions on Writing and Life

by Anne Lamott

42

Crossing the Chasm

Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

by Geoffrey A. Moore

43
48

The Obstacle Is the Way

The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

by Ryan Holiday

49

Tools of Titans

The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

by Tim Ferriss

50

A Guide to the Good Life

The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B. Irvine

51

AI Superpowers

China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee

53

Enlightenment Now

The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker

57

Start with Why

How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

by Simon Sinek

59
60

The Changing World Order

Why Nations Succeed and Fail

by Ray Dalio

61

The Checklist Manifesto

How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

64

The Power of Habit

Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

by Charles Duhigg

65

The Ride of a Lifetime

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

by Robert Iger

66

Thinking in Bets

Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

by Annie Duke

67

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

An Inquiry Into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig

69

Atomic Habits

An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

by James Clear

70

Autobiography of a Yogi

by Paramahansa Yogananda

71

Becoming Steve Jobs

The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

by Brent Schlender

72

Benjamin Franklin

An American Life

by Walter Isaacson

73

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

74

Blitzscaling

The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman

75

Creativity, Inc.

Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull

76

Einstein

His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson

77

Homo Deus

A Brief History of Tomorrow

by Yuval Noah Harari

78
79

Lean In

Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

by Sheryl Sandberg

81

Measure What Matters

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

by John Doerr

82

Only the Paranoid Survive

How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

by Andrew S. Grove

84

Rework

by David “DHH” Heinemeier Hansson

85

Skin in the Game

Incerto, Book 5

by Nassim Taleb

86

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

87

The Beginning of Infinity

Explanations That Transform the World

by David Deutsch

89

The Coddling of the American Mind

How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

by Greg Lukianoff

90

The Coming Wave

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

by Mustafa Suleyman

92

The Lessons of History

by Will & Ariel Durant

93
94

The Oxford Shakespeare

The Complete Works

by William Shakespeare

97

The Score Takes Care of Itself

My Philosophy of Leadership

by Bill Walsh

98

The True Believer

Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

by Eric Hoffer

99

The Untethered Soul

The Journey Beyond Yourself

by Michael A. Singer

101

What We Owe the Future

by William MacAskill