Shane Parrish Recommended Books

"I always recommend [this book] as my top business book." - Naval Ravikant

"Tremendous." - Marc Andreessen

List of books Bill Gates read in 2011.

"The ever-popular book about my partner." - Warren Buffett

Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."

Tim Ferriss mentioned this book on Twitter.

"If given a choice between investing in someone who has read Rework or has an MBA, I'm investing in Rework every time." - Mark Cuban

"Unperturbed by conventional wisdom, [the authors] start fresh and rewrite the rules of business." - Jeff Bezos

"I can't imagine what possible excuse you can dream up for not buying this book for every single person you work with, right now." - Seth Godin

"I encourage people to think of as an 'Elements of Style' for building profitable businesses in a web-savvy world." - Tim Ferriss

"The clarity, even genius, of this book actually brought me to near-tears on several occasions. Just bloody brilliant, that's what!" - Tom Peters

"Read this book multiple times to help give you the courage you need to get out there and make something great." - Tony Hsieh

Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.

Jocko Willink covered this book in "Jocko Podcast" Ep. 78

"The book I’ve probably gifted the most is [this book], since I’m 16." - Esther Perel

"Loved it. Really loved it." - Emma Watson

"Wow it's dark." - Naval Ravikant

"One of my favorite books." - David Blaine

"One of my favorite books of all time." - Naval Ravikant

"My most read book." - Tobi Lütke

"Finished reading." - Jack Dorsey

"I kind of thrive on stress, so I’m almost embarrassed by how comforting I find this book." - Anna Kendrick

"Great read." - Sam Altman

Neil Strauss recommended this book in the "Tools of Titans" book.

"This is the Durants. They were maybe the greatest historians of all time." - Ray Dalio

"A fantastic book." - Naval Ravikant

"It’s excellent." - Tim Ferriss

"A great book." - Kevin Systrom

Mark Manson recommended this book on his website.

"[One of] the 10 books with the most page-for-page wisdom." - James Clear

"[Has] some good advice on how to improve your ability to make accurate predictions." - Julia Galef

"Such a great book. Building software right now that's informed by this." - Alexis Ohanian

"[One of the] best books I read in 2017." - Anthony Pompliano

"Most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow." - Michael Mauboussin

"Remarkable." - Sam Hinkie

"It's a really good book!" - Preston Pysh

"Will give you a good taste of what that cocktail of bullets looks like in Naval’s head." - Tim Ferriss

"Highly suggest others grab a copy too!" - Anthony Pompliano

"Timeless advice from an OG." - Brian Dean

"" - Blake Randall

"Few books have made me think more than this one over the last decade." - Ev Williams

"A very good book." - James Altucher

"The general concept is applicable to many fields beyond biology, for instance finance, economics and monetary policy." - Vlad Tenev

"It's so wonderful when books create the language that you need to better reason about the world. [This book] did that as well." - Tobi Lütke

"We definitely want Binance to be antifragile. This book may explain why we make some of the decisions we make." - Changpeng Zhao

"This book will have you asking yourself many provocative and useful questions." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

"I have read [this book]. I have thought a lot about him. There was a lot to admire in the way that he started Walmart." - Jeff Bezos

“Filled with lessons on retailing and entrepreneurship that are just as relevant today as they were around three decades ago." - Kishore Biyani

On Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books.

Tai Lopez recommended this book on Twitter.

Gary Keller recommended this book on YouTube.

Patrick Bet-David recommended this book on his website.

"I think any book that reviews Charlie Munger’s ideas is worth reading, and this one in particular weaves in wisdom from some of history’s greatest minds." - Jason Fried

"A great overview of the lessons of Charlie Munger (partner of Warren Buffett) - and his approach to checklists of multi-disciplinary models to guide clear thinking." - Derek Sivers

"A wonderful book on wisdom and decision-making written by a wise decision-maker." - Nassim Taleb

"Good book." - Tai Lopez

"[The author's] thesis is that the most important part of reading a book is to actually read the table of contents and familiarize yourself with the major structure of the book." - Kevin Systrom

One of Max Levchin's answers to "what's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?"

"For crypto traders." - Barry Silbert

"A great story." - David Friedberg

"One of the most magnificent books I’ve ever read." - Ryan Holiday

"My favorite writer." - Sam Hinkie

"About the Urban Planning industry." - Trung Phan

Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.

"Easy access to meditation." - Vinod Khosla

Bill Gurley recommended this book on Quora.

"Just a short essay, but it is spot on." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

List of books Bill Gates read in 2012.

"I’ve given quite a lot of copies of [this book] to people down the years." - Alain de Botton

On the "books read" section of Emma Watson's GoodReads profile.

"I picked this up during a tough period in my life, and many of the quotes are still pinned to my bathroom mirror." - Amelia Boone

One of the books on Scott Adams' "Persuasion Reading List."

On the "books read" section of Emma Watson's GoodReads profile.

"For its bracing prose as much as anything else. I’ve been arguing with [the author] for most of my career." - Michael Pollan

"I have devoured [this book]." - Emma Watson

"One of my favorites." - Tim Ferriss

"About the difference between deciding to do something and really having to do it." - Oprah Winfrey

Liz Lambert mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

"I have devoured [this book]." - Emma Watson

"Contains some of the most cogent insights on life, pain, loss, love, success, youth that I have ever seen." - Ryan Holiday

Most Recommended Books reached out to Kathryn Minshew directly.

"Drags the reader back through the mud she lived through, reminding them that they are not alone and that yes, they will be all right." - Mark Manson