Books Recommended by Tim O’Reilly
The Meaning of Culture
John Cowper Powys
Source: "Talks about the interplay of culture and life, the way that what we read can enrich what we experience, and what we experience can enrich what we read." - Tim O’Reilly
Night Train to Lisbon
Pascal Mercier
Source: "Sometimes there was just a line in [this book] that changed my life in some way." - Tim O’Reilly
Dune
Frank Herbert
Source: "Definitely one of [the books that have shaped my life]." - Tim O’Reilly
The Discovery of the Mind
Bruno Snell
Source: Tim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Makers and Takers
Rana Foroohar
Source: "All about the financialization of the economy." - Tim O’Reilly
Information Rules
Carl Shapiro
Source: Tim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
The Odyssey
Homer
Source: Tim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Russ Roberts
Source: Tim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog
Ed Krol
Source: "It had a catalogue in the back of interests to internet sites. If you tell that to this site, you’ll get earthquake information. [...] There were only 200 web sites." - Tim O’Reilly
The Essential Rumi
Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Source: "The introduction alone [...] will make the hair stand up on your arms." - Tim O’Reilly
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
Source: "A time machine into this place when our financial economy went crazily wrong." - Tim O’Reilly
Unrig
Daniel G. Newman
Source: "I love [this book]. A graphic 'novel' explaining how to unrig the US's broken democracy." - Tim O’Reilly
The Way of Life, According to Laotzu
Witter Bynner
Source: "Most people who know me have heard me quote from this book." - Tim O’Reilly
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Source: "[This book] isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do." - Tim O’Reilly
Intermediate Microeconomics
Hal R. Varian
Source: "Almost every economist learned from [this book]." - Tim O’Reilly
The Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson
Source: Tim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
Source: Tim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Trilby
George Du Maurier
Source: "Everybody knows Charles Dickens, but only a certain number of people will have read [this book]." - Tim O’Reilly
