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Books recommended by Alexis Ohanian

Alexis Ohanian recommends 31 books, among them Shoe Dog, Creativity, Inc. and Influence.

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Industry

31 books

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Nonfiction

Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull

Biography & memoir

Influence

Robert B. Cialdini, PhD

Nonfiction

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Health & fitness

Hooked

Nir Eyal & Ryan Hoover

Design

The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein

Fiction

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Fiction

American Kingpin

Nick Bilton

History

Billion Dollar Whale

Tom Wright & Bradley Hope

Money & investing

Daemon

Daniel Suarez

Fiction

Founders at Work

Jessica Livingston

Technology

Frenemies

Ken Auletta

Business & management

Hatching Twitter

Nick Bilton

Technology

High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil

Business & management

Indistractable

Nir Eyal

Technology

Masters of Doom

David Kushner

Technology

Order Without Design

Alain Bertaud

Design

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

History

Rage Becomes Her

Soraya Chemaly

Economics & politics

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

Technology

Super Pumped

Mike Isaac

Biography & memoir

Superforecasting

Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner

Economics & politics

The Great CEO Within

Matt Mochary

Psychology

The ONE Thing

Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

Psychology

The Ride of a Lifetime

Robert Iger

Biography & memoir

Traction

Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares

Technology

White Fragility

Robin DiAngelo

Economics & politics

Who

Geoff Smart

Business & management