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65 books, including Principles, Sapiens and High Output Management.

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Industry

65 books

No. 1

Principles

Ray Dalio

Nonfiction

No. 2

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction

No. 3

High Output Management

Andrew Grove

Nonfiction

No. 4

Play Nice But Win

Michael Dell

Biography & memoir

No. 5

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

Nonfiction

No. 8

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

Nonfiction

No. 9

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Nonfiction

No. 10

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Nonfiction

No. 11

Only the Paranoid Survive

Andrew Grove

Biography & memoir

No. 12

Blitzscaling

Reid Hoffman

Technology

No. 13

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Charlie Munger

Nonfiction

No. 15

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction

No. 16

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Psychology

No. 17

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

Nonfiction

No. 18

Good to Great

Jim Collins

Nonfiction

No. 19

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

Richard P. Feynman

Biography & memoir

No. 20

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Nonfiction

No. 21

Measure What Matters

John Doerr

Technology

No. 22

The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

Economics & politics

No. 23

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

Economics & politics

No. 24

Originals

Adam Grant

Science & nature

No. 25

Lean In

Sheryl Sandberg

Biography & memoir

No. 26

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

Fiction

No. 27

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey A. Moore

Business & management

No. 28

7 Powers

Hamilton Helmer

Business & management

No. 29

Getting to Yes

Roger Fisher

Psychology

No. 31

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Science & nature

No. 33

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction

No. 34

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Robert J. Gordon

History

No. 35

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction