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
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 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
Dune (23 books)
Frank Herbert
Source: "Definitely one of [the series that have shaped my life]." - Tim O’Reilly
The Warden
Anthony Trollope
Source: "You read [this book] and you go, 'Oh, my God, I’m reading a novel about the moral quandaries of an 1850s British cleric, and it’s fricking fascinating.'" - Tim O’Reilly
Can You Forgive Her?
Anthony Trollope
Source: "It’s this sort of proto-feminist novel about these women who made choices that were unconventional in who they would marry." - Tim O’Reilly
Working Backwards
Colin Bryar
Source: "[The authors] dive deep into how Amazon has become the company to study if you want to succeed in 21st-century business." - Tim O’Reilly
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Source: "I learned [that 20 of these poems] do nothing for me, and there’s this one that just goes 'Bang!'" - Tim O’Reilly
Trilby
George Du Maurier
Source: "Everybody knows Charles Dickens, but only a certain number of people will have read [this book]." - Tim O’Reilly
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Source: "In terms of classics, you can’t do better than [this author] for understanding the human soul." - Tim O’Reilly
The Collected Poems
Wallace Stevens
Source: "Maybe it’s too intellectual for some people, but [...] go find a couple of poems of [this author]." - 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
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
Source: "A time machine into this place when our financial economy went crazily wrong." - Tim O’Reilly
AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee
Source: "If you care about the future being brought to us by AI, this is the one indispensable book of 2018." - Tim O’Reilly
When Nietzsche Wept
Irvin D. Yalom
Source: "An imagined story of early psychoanalysis about a guy who was a predecessor to Freud." - 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
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 Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
Source: "[Gets you] into the world of psychedelia and that era of the ‘70s." - Tim O’Reilly
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey
Source: "A time machine into how people felt about the world in [1915]." - Tim O’Reilly
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