246 Books Billionaires Read

Principles

Life and Work

Sapiens

A Brief History, Book 1

High Output Management

Play Nice But Win

A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader

Atlas Shrugged

The Innovator's Dilemma

When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

Poor Charlie's Almanack

The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Snow Crash

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Blitzscaling

The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

Only the Paranoid Survive

How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

Shoe Dog

A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Zero to One

Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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

Adventures of a Curious Character

Antifragile

Incerto, Book 3

Good to Great

Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

Measure What Matters

How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

The Art Of War

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Why Violence Has Declined

The Fountainhead

The Lean Startup

How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

The Rational Optimist

How Prosperity Evolves

Thinking, Fast and Slow

7 Powers

The Foundations of Business Strategy

Becoming Steve Jobs

The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

Business Adventures

Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

Crossing the Chasm

Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

Cryptonomicon

Einstein

His Life and Universe

Getting to Yes

Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

Lean In

Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Mindset

The New Psychology of Success

Originals

How Non-Conformists Move the World

Outliers

The Story of Success

Team of Rivals

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

The Black Swan

Incerto, Book 2

The Changing World Order

Why Nations Succeed and Fail

The Outsiders

Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

The Selfish Gene

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Abundance

The Future Is Better Than You Think

Benjamin Franklin

An American Life

Built to Last

Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Dear Founder

Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business

Designing Brand Identity

An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team

Destined for War

Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

Factfulness

Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Homo Deus

A Brief History, Book 2

How To Win Friends and Influence People

Keeping At It

The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government

Loonshots

How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Lying

Made to Stick

Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Masters of Doom

How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

New Power

How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--and How to Make It Work for You

Range

Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Sam Walton

Made In America

Skin in the Game

Incerto, Book 5

Steve Jobs

Stuff Matters

Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

The 4-Hour Workweek

Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Catcher in the Rye

The Checklist Manifesto

How to Get Things Right

The Courage to Be Disliked

The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

The Dream Machine

The Idea Factory

Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

The Mythical Man-Month

Essays on Software Engineering

The Network State

How To Start a New Country

The Politics Industry

How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy

The Ride of a Lifetime

Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

The Score Takes Care of Itself

My Philosophy of Leadership

Trailblazer

The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change

When Breath Becomes Air

Whole Earth Discipline

Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

A Conflict of Visions

Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

A Full Life

Reflections at Ninety

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Novel

A Guide to the Good Life

The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

A Piece of the Action

How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Tale of Two Cities

A Whole New Mind

Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

Accidental Presidents

Eight Men Who Changed America

Alpha Girls

The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

An American Marriage

A Novel

An Elegant Defense

The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

Anna Karenina

As I Lay Dying

The Corrected Text

Autobiography of a Yogi

Awakening Joy

10 Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness

Behave

The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Between the World and Me

Black Box Thinking

The Surprising Truth About Success

Blink

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blueprint

The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

Born a Crime

Stories from a South African Childhood

Brotopia

Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

Competing Against Luck

The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Conscious Business

How to Build Value Through Values

Cry, the Beloved Country

Deep Learning

Don't Make Me Think

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Educated

A Memoir

Ender's Game

Ender Saga, Book 1

Energy

A Beginner's Guide

Expert Political Judgment

How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

Financial Shenanigans

How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports

Flow

The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Fooled by Randomness

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Founders at Work

Stories of Startups' Early Days

From Bacteria to Bach and Back

The Evolution of Minds

Future Forward

Leadership Lessons from Patrick McGovern, the Visionary Who Circled the Globe and Built a Technology Media Empire

Genome

The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Getting Things Done

The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Great Expectations

Hackers & Painters

Big Ideas from the Computer Age

Hard Drive

Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

Hard Landing

The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos

High Growth Handbook

Hillbilly Elegy

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hit Refresh

The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

Holy Bible

Hopping over the Rabbit Hole

How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success

How Asia Works

How to Change Your Mind

What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where is Everybody?

Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

In the Plex

How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Influence

The Psychology of Persuasion

Jack

Straight from the Gut

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Just Mercy

A Story of Justice and Redemption

Leadership and Self-Deception

Getting Out of the Box

Leonardo da Vinci

Life 3.0

Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Liftoff

Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

Lights Out

Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

Living with a SEAL

31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

Lolita

Lone Survivor

Longitude

The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Man's Search for Meaning

Meditations

Mountains Beyond Mountains

The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

On Immunity

An Inoculation

On Intelligence

How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

On the Road

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Open

An Autobiography

Physics of the Future

How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Power Up

How Smart Women Win in the New Economy

Pride in Performance

Keep It Going!

Radical Candor

Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Ready Player One

Reinventing Fire

Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era

Revolutionary Wealth

Rework

Scale

The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

Security Analysis

Showing Up for Life

Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime

Stranger in a Strange Land

Strength in Stillness

The Power of Transcendental Meditation

Stress Test

Reflections on Financial Crises

Supermoney

Tao Te Ching

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

The Age of Napoleon

The Story of Civilization, Book 11

The Airbnb Story

How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Learning to Learn

The Art Spirit

The Beginning of Infinity

Explanations That Transform the World

The Blind Watchmaker

Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

The Bonfire of the Vanities

A Novel

The Box

How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

The Coming Wave

Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

The Corrections

A Novel

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Diamond Age

Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

The Dip

A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

The Effective Executive

The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

From Marathon to Waterloo

The Future of Capitalism

Facing the New Anxieties

The Gene

An Intimate History

The Giving Tree

The Goal

A Process of Ongoing Improvement

The Godfather

The Godfather, Book 1

The Great Gatsby

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 1

The Iliad

The Inner Game of Tennis

The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

The Intelligent Investor

The Last Days of Night

A Novel

The Law

The Lessons of History

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

The Long Tail

Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More