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Books recommended by Ev Williams

Ev Williams recommends 121 books, among them Hackers & Painters, Holacracy and In Search of Excellence.

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Industry

121 books

Hackers & Painters

Paul Graham

History

Holacracy

Brian Johnson

Business & management

In Search of Excellence

Thomas J. Peters

Business & management

In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

Neal Stephenson

Technology

Infinite Creativity

Silvia Hartmann

Spirituality & religion

It's Not About the Bike

Lance Armstrong

Health & fitness

Jimmy Corrigan

Chris Ware

Fiction

Joel on Software

Joel Spolsky

Technology

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach

Spirituality & religion

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction

Mastery

George Leonard

Philosophy

Mating

Norman Rush

Fiction

Mind Wide Open

Steven Johnson

Psychology

Mindfulness for Beginners

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Spirituality & religion

Moneyball

Michael Lewis

Health & fitness

Nonzero

Robert Wright

Economics & politics

Ogilvy on Advertising

David Ogilvy

Arts & entertainment

On Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins

Technology

Out of Control

Kevin Kelly

Technology

Positioning

Al Ries

Psychology

Ready for Anything

David Allen

Self-improvement

Reinventing Fire

Amory Lovins

Science & nature

Revolutionary Wealth

Alvin Toffler

Economics & politics

Seeing What's Next

Clayton M. Christensen

Business & management

Slack

Tom DeMarco

Self-improvement

Small Pieces Loosely Joined

David Weinberger

Technology

Smart and Gets Things Done

Joel Spolsky

Technology

Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card

Fiction

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

Richard P. Feynman

Biography & memoir

Tesla

Margaret Cheney

Technology