The books people recommended

2024-02-03 · 211 points · 102 comments · 15 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

4
The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman
4 here · 23 all-time · #264 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 5,404 ratings on Amazon
1
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
1 here · 62 all-time · #60 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 51,660 ratings on Amazon
1
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
1 here · 56 all-time · #67 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 15,933 ratings on Amazon
1
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
1 here · 56 all-time · #68 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 17,985 ratings on Amazon
1
Creativity Inc.
Ed Catmull
1 here · 43 all-time · #107 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 10,683 ratings on Amazon
1
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
1 here · 39 all-time · #125 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 5,879 ratings on Amazon
1
The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank
1 here · 36 all-time · #137 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 673 ratings on Amazon
1
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
1 here · 34 all-time · #152 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 8,164 ratings on Amazon
1This is Water
This is Water
David Foster Wallace
1 here · 15 all-time · #431 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,652 ratings on Amazon
1Barbarians at the Gate
Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough
1 here · 9 all-time · #758 overall
1Hooked
Hooked
Nir Eyal
1 here · 8 all-time · #812 overall
1Hard Drive
Hard Drive
James Wallace, Jim Erickson
1 here · 8 all-time · #852 overall
1Only the Paranoid Survive
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew Grove
1 here · 4 all-time · #1709 overall
1Sam Walton
Sam Walton
Sam Walton
1 here · 3 all-time · #2287 overall
1Halo Effect
Halo Effect
Phil Rosenzweig
1 here · 3 all-time · #2315 overall