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Book recommendations from the world's most influential people, collected in one searchable place. Every pick is tracked to the podcast, interview, or list where it surfaced.

influential figures: 14; influential figures
books tracked: 87; books tracked
recommendations: 97; recommendations
sources cited: 52; sources cited

The figures

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

Cover of Chip War by Chris Miller

Cover of How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

Cover of King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

media executive and talk show host

Cover of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Cover of The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Cover of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett

chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway

Cover of Investing Between the Lines by Laura Rittenhouse

Cover of Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger

Cover of Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Co-founder of Microsoft

Cover of Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Cover of Chasing Hope by Nicholas Kristof

Cover of Educated by Tara Westover

Elon Musk

Elon Musk

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX

Cover of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

Cover of Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele

Cover of Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella

CEO of Microsoft

Cover of Mindset by Carol S. Dweck

Cover of Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Cover of Prosperity by Colin Mayer

Sam Altman

Sam Altman

CEO of OpenAI

Cover of Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman

Cover of Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Cover of Mind of Napoleon by J. Christopher Herold

Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison

co-founder and CEO of Stripe

Cover of Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos

Cover of Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger Jr.

Cover of Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger

Paul Graham

Paul Graham

co-founder of Y Combinator

Cover of A Sense of Where You Are by John McPhee

Cover of Barbarian Days by William Finnegan

Cover of Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston

Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman

Co-founder of LinkedIn

Cover of Conscious Business by Fred Kofman

Cover of Dune by Frank Herbert

Cover of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant

Co-founder of AngelList

Cover of Influence by Robert Cialdini

Cover of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Cover of Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger

Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang

Founder and CEO of NVIDIA

Cover of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson

Cover of Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout

Cover of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis

Co-founder of DeepMind and Nobel laureate

Cover of Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

Cover of Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen

Economist and author

Cover of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson

Cover of Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Cover of The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Reading lists37
Blogs24
Podcasts14
Interviews12
Posts6
Books3
YouTube1