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493 books, each one recommended in public by someone influential, each one tracked to its source.
A Sense of Where You Are
John McPhee
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
Nicholas Phillipson
Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos
Barbarian Days
William Finnegan
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
Blitzscaling
Reid Hoffman
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Chasing Hope
Nicholas Kristof
Chip War
Chris Miller
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson
Conscious Business
Fred Kofman
Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
Dune
Frank Herbert
Educated
Tara Westover
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
Hard Landing
Thomas Petzinger Jr.
Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano
How Not to Be Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg
How to Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair
Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
Influence
Robert Cialdini
Investing Between the Lines
Laura Rittenhouse
King: A Life
Jonathan Eig
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
Mathematician's Delight
W. W. Sawyer
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Mind of Napoleon
J. Christopher Herold
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Our Final Invention
James Barrat
Permutation City
Greg Egan
Personal History
Katharine Graham
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
Positioning
Al Ries and Jack Trout
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
Prosperity
Colin Mayer
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Klaus Schwab and Nicholas Davis
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
K.C. Cole
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
J. E. Gordon
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman
Surrender
Bono
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
The Clash of the Cultures
John C. Bogle
The Copernican Revolution
Thomas S. Kuhn
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
The Double Helix
James D. Watson
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
The Fabric of Reality
David Deutsch
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Great Convergence
Richard Baldwin
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
The Making of Europe
Robert Bartlett
The MANIAC
Benjamín Labatut
The Narrow Corridor
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
The Outsiders
William N. Thorndike Jr.
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
The Power Law
Sebastian Mallaby
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley
The Revolt of the Public
Martin Gurri
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Robert J. Gordon
The Seventh Sense
Joshua Cooper Ramo
The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark
The Wager
David Grann
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Way to Love
Anthony de Mello
The Wizard and the Prophet
Charles C. Mann
Where Are the Customers' Yachts?
Fred Schwed
Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich
Whole Earth Discipline
Stewart Brand
Zero to One
Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
Bossypants
Tina Fey
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Dear Black Girls
A'ja Wilson
More Than Enough
Elaine Welteroth
Power Moves
Sarah Jakes Roberts
Deception
Philip Roth
Light Years
James Salter
A Single Man
Christopher Isherwood
Anagrams
Lorrie Moore
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Audition
Katie Kitamura
The Ten Year Affair
Erin Somers
The Ten Year Affair
Erin Somers
The Wilderness
Angela Flournoy
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Pink Slime
Fernanda Trías
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Irving Stone
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin
Mindhunter
John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker
The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Oscar Zeta Acosta
The Revolt of the Cockroach People
Oscar Zeta Acosta
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
Ernesto Che Guevara
Heavier Than Heaven
Charles R. Cross
Open
Andre Agassi
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Marlon Brando
My Story
Ingrid Bergman
The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Choosing Gold
Saurabh Gadgil
Thirst Trap
Gráinne O'Hare
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Circe
Madeline Miller
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
Nina McConigley
Sula
Toni Morrison
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange
James
Percival Everett
Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
My Husband's Wife
Alice Feeney
Razorblade Tears
S.A. Cosby
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
Jane Doe
Victoria Helen Stone
Carrie
Stephen King
The Collective
Alison Gaylin
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins
Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Stoner
John Williams
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
Janice Galloway
The Passion
Jeanette Winterson
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Alasdair Gray
Close Up
John Fraser
Maggie and Me
Damian Barr
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Jean Rhys
Erasure
Percival Everett
The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
The Animal Family
Randall Jarrell
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
The Good Lord Bird
James McBride
Just Kids
Patti Smith
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners
Narges Mohammadi
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
How to Stop Time
Matt Haig
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
The Second Tree from the Corner
E. B. White
Nine Stories
J. D. Salinger
The Jaws Log
Carl Gottlieb
Making Movies
Sidney Lumet
Bag Man
Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz
Business Adventures
John Brooks
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Abundance
Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
The Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Physics of the Future
Michio Kaku
Big Bang Disruption
Larry Downes and Paul Nunes
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Trillion Dollar Coach
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Cult X
Fuminori Nakamura
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
The Bible
Various authors
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Know My Name
Chanel Miller
Healing Back Pain
John E. Sarno
The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
Allen Carr
The Easy Way to Stop Drinking
Allen Carr
Getting to I Do
Patricia Allen
Cupid's Poisoned Arrow
Marnia Robinson
The Art of Happiness
Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler
Kathy Griffin's Celebrity Run-ins
Kathy Griffin
Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid
Climbing the Mango Trees
Madhur Jaffrey
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
In Pursuit of Flavor
Edna Lewis
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Les Fées, Contes des Contes
Charles Perrault
Les Fées, Contes des Contes
Charles Perrault
Cage of Eden
Yoshinobu Yamada
Cage of Eden
Yoshinobu Yamada
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Mouchette
Georges Bernanos
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Kim
Rudyard Kipling
The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Beginning of Spring
Penelope Fitzgerald
Typhoon
Joseph Conrad
The Soccer War
Ryszard Kapuściński
The Soccer War
Ryszard Kapuściński
Night People
Mark Ronson
Night People
Mark Ronson
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
The Four
Scott Galloway
The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
The Zuni Cafe Cookbook
Judy Rodgers
Chez Panisse Cooking
Alice Waters
The French Menu Cookbook
Richard Olney
The Cooking of South-West France
Paula Wolfert
Revolution from Within
Gloria Steinem
Homegrown Hate
Sara Kamali
Homegrown Hate
Sara Kamali
We the Resistance
Michael G. Long
We the Resistance
Michael G. Long
Somos Latinas
Andrea-Teresa Arenas
Understanding Exposure
Bryan Peterson
Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals
Morris Mano
Microbe Hunters
Paul de Kruif
A Herança de Johanna Döbereiner para a Ciência Agrícola Brasileira e Mundial
Mariangela Hungria
A Herança de Johanna Döbereiner para a Ciência Agrícola Brasileira e Mundial
Mariangela Hungria
Breaking Free
Abby Sher
Range
David Epstein
Bowling Alone
Robert D. Putnam
How Women Rise
Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith
Chatter
Ethan Kross
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
This Must Be the Place
Maggie O'Farrell
We Don't Know Ourselves
Fintan O'Toole
Wildland
Evan Osnos
The Kids' Whole Future Catalog
Paula Taylor
Letter to Proba (Letter 130)
Augustine of Hippo
Letter to Proba (Letter 130)
Augustine of Hippo
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo
The Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence
Lord of the World
Robert Hugh Benson
City of God
Augustine of Hippo
Cien años de soledad
Gabriel García Márquez
La estructura de las revoluciones científicas
Thomas Kuhn
La Reina del Sur
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Crónicas Marcianas
Ray Bradbury
Pueblo
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Pueblo
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Courting Disaster
Marc Thiessen
Power, Faith, and Fantasy
Michael Oren
Decision Points
George W. Bush
Jack Kemp
Morton Kondracke and Fred Barnes
Triggered
Donald Trump Jr.
Talent Is Overrated
Geoff Colvin
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Butler
Salena Zito
What It Is, America
Tyrus
What It Is, America
Tyrus
Venom and Valor
James Jones
Venom and Valor
James Jones
And Then They Prayed
Barry Loudermilk
And Then They Prayed
Barry Loudermilk
Trump's Triumph
Newt Gingrich
Trump's Triumph
Newt Gingrich
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
World Energy Outlook
International Energy Agency
World Energy Investment
International Energy Agency
Energy Technology Perspectives
International Energy Agency
The Gods of New York
Jonathan Mahler
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Das Kapital
Karl Marx
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
What Is to Be Done?
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Brazil: A Land of the Future
Stefan Zweig
The Industries of the Future
Alec Ross
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
World Order
Henry Kissinger
Exponential Organizations
Salim Ismail
The Aaronsohn Saga
Samuel Katz
The Aaronsohn Saga
Samuel Katz
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
Nothing Less Than Victory
John David Lewis
Against the Odds
James Dyson
Titan
Ron Chernow
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Confessions of an Advertising Man
David Ogilvy
A Man for All Markets
Edward O. Thorp
Who Is Michael Ovitz?
Michael Ovitz
Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton
Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton
The Dream of Solomeo
Brunello Cucinelli
The Dream of Solomeo
Brunello Cucinelli
The Invisible Billionaire
Jerry Shields
Pride in Performance
Les Schwab
Damn Right
Janet Lowe
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
Grinding It Out
Ray Kroc
Made in Japan
Akio Morita
Losing My Virginity
Richard Branson
Becoming Steve Jobs
Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
Sol Price
Robert E. Price
My Life and Work
Henry Ford
The Molecule of More
Daniel Z. Lieberman & Michael E. Long
Deep Work
Cal Newport
The 4-Hour Body
Timothy Ferriss
Breath
James Nestor
Outlive
Peter Attia & Bill Gifford
The Road to Character
David Brooks
Finding Ultra
Rich Roll
How Emotions Are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Longitude
Dava Sobel
On the Move
Oliver Sacks
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Altered Traits
Daniel Goleman & Richard J. Davidson
The Circadian Code
Satchin Panda
The Secret Pulse of Time
Stefan Klein
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic
Paul Conti
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Principles
Ray Dalio
Hooked
Nir Eyal
Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
A Mind at Play
Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman
Behave
Robert M. Sapolsky
WTF?
Tim O'Reilly
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Let My People Go Surfing
Yvon Chouinard
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove
How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
Brad Jacobs
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
Who Not How
Dan Sullivan, Benjamin Hardy
The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
Setting the Table
Danny Meyer
Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara
Am I Being Too Subtle?
Sam Zell
On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
Maverick
Ricardo Semler
Quiet
Susan Cain
Seeking Wisdom
Peter Bevelin
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
Where the Suckers Moon
Randall Rothenberg
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike
The Seven-Day Weekend
Ricardo Semler
The Innovator's Solution
Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Built to Last
Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Creation: Life and How to Make It
Steve Grand
Rework
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Memos from the Chairman
Alan C. Greenberg
The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Good to Great
Jim Collins
Lean Thinking
James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins
The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
The Master Algorithm
Pedro Domingos
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
1984
George Orwell
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Love and Math
Edward Frenkel
The End of Power
Moisés Naím
Gang Leader for a Day
Sudhir Venkatesh
On Immunity
Eula Biss
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
Rational Ritual
Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
The Muqaddimah
Ibn Khaldun
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Genome
Matt Ridley
Has China Won?
Kishore Mahbubani
The Prize
Daniel Yergin
How to Get Rich
Felix Dennis
Nuts!
Kevin Freiberg, Jackie Freiberg
The Beak of the Finch
Jonathan Weiner
The Essays of Warren Buffett
Lawrence A. Cunningham
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
The Little Book That Beats the Market
Joel Greenblatt
One Up on Wall Street
Peter Lynch
The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
I Don't Want to Talk About It
Terrence Real
The Talent Code
Daniel Coyle
One Bullet Away
Nathaniel Fick
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Gary Taubes
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Most Important Thing
Howard Marks
10% Happier
Dan Harris
Solve for Happy
Mo Gawdat
On Confidence
The School of Life
The Lessons of History
Will and Ariel Durant
River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
Einstein's Mistakes
Hans C. Ohanian
The Upside of Inequality
Edward Conard
The Serengeti Rules
Sean B. Carroll
From Bacteria to Bach and Back
Daniel C. Dennett
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Security Analysis
Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Paul Kennedy
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
The Power Broker
Robert Caro
What Makes Sammy Run?
Budd Schulberg
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
George Horace Lorimer
Ask the Dust
John Fante
Tunnel 29
Helena Merriman
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
When Money Dies
Adam Fergusson
The Success Equation
Michael J. Mauboussin
Made in America
Sam Walton
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
Just Keep Buying
Nick Maggiulli
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Dead Wake
Erik Larson
Factfulness
Hans Rosling
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
The 50th Law
50 Cent, Robert Greene
On Writing
Stephen King
The Adweek Copywriting Handbook
Joseph Sugarman
Built to Sell
John Warrillow
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
The Martian
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Brothers Emanuel
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Storyworthy
Matthew Dicks
Grit
Angela Duckworth
Die with Zero
Bill Perkins
Alchemy
Rory Sutherland
Ogilvy on Advertising
David Ogilvy
Scientific Advertising
Claude Hopkins
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
King Lear
William Shakespeare
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Chögyam Trungpa
Be Here Now
Ram Dass
Diet for a Small Planet
Frances Moore Lappé
The Mucusless Diet Healing System
Arnold Ehret
Selected Poems
Dylan Thomas
The Republic
Plato
Awareness
Anthony de Mello
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
The Magic of Thinking Big
David J. Schwartz
How to Make Millions with Your Ideas
Dan S. Kennedy
The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
Vagabonding
Rolf Potts
Daily Rituals
Mason Currey
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis
Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
Captivate
Vanessa Van Edwards
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Eric Barker
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Stephen King
Linchpin
Seth Godin
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Red Famine
Anne Applebaum
Mao: The Unknown Story
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
James Burnham
As a Man Thinketh
James Allen
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Loving What Is
Byron Katie
The Emotion Code
Bradley Nelson
Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss
Start with Why
Simon Sinek
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
Everything is Figureoutable
Marie Forleo
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman and Kaley Warner Klemp