Books Recommended by Jeff Bezos
Built to Last
Jim Collins
Source: "My favorite business book." - Jeff Bezos
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Source: "My favorite novel. Teaches pain of regret so well you will think you lived it." - Jeff Bezos
Creation
Steve Grand
Source: "Was influential in the creation of Amazon Web Services, or AWS, the service that popularized the notion of the cloud." - Brad Stone
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
Source: "[The Culture series is] a huge personal favorite." - Jeff Bezos
Data-Driven Marketing
Mark Jeffery
Source: "A guide to using data to measure everything from customer satisfaction to the effectiveness of marketing." - Brad Stone
Rework
David “DHH” Heinemeier Hansson
Source: "Unperturbed by conventional wisdom, [the authors] start fresh and rewrite the rules of business. Their approach turns out to be as successful as it is counter-intuitive." - Jeff Bezos
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Source: "Argues that people are wired to see patterns in chaos while remaining blind to unpredictable events, with massive consequences. Experimentation and empiricism trumps the easy and obvious narrative." - Brad Stone
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen
Source: "An enormously influential business book whose principles Amazon acted on and that facilitated the creation of the Kindle and AWS." - Brad Stone
The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Source: "Lays out the theory behind Amazon’s two-pizza teams." - Brad Stone
Dune
Frank Herbert
Source: "I’m a big science-fiction fan. I love [this book]." - Jeff Bezos
Lean Thinking
James P. Womack
Source: "Calls for a focus on those activities that create value for the customer and the systematic eradication of everything else." - Brad Stone
Surface Detail
Iain M. Banks
Source: "[The Culture series is] a huge personal favorite." - Jeff Bezos
Good to Great
Jim Collins
Source: "[The author] briefed Amazon executives on his seminal management book before its publication." - Brad Stone
State of the Art
Iain M. Banks
Source: "[The Culture series is] a huge personal favorite." - Jeff Bezos
Memos from the Chairman
Alan C. Greenberg
Source: "His repetition of wisdom from a fictional philosopher presages Amazon’s annual recycling of its original 1997 letter to shareholders." - Brad Stone
Matter
Iain M. Banks
Source: "[The Culture series is] a huge personal favorite." - Jeff Bezos
The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Source: "Encourages companies to identify the biggest constraints in their operations and then structure their organizations to get the most out of those constraints." - Brad Stone
Sam Walton
Sam Walton
Source: "Expounds on the principles of discount retailing and discusses his core values of frugality and a bias for action—a willingness to try a lot of things and make many mistakes. Bezos included both in Amazon’s corporate values." - Brad Stone
The Hydrogen Sonata
Iain M. Banks
Source: "[The Culture series is] a huge personal favorite." - Jeff Bezos
Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks
Source: "[The Culture series is] a huge personal favorite." - Jeff Bezos
