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david bowie's 100 favorite books: 18 novels to start with
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- 01The Great Gatsby
- 02Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell)
- 03Lolita - Nabokov
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jeff bezos's reading list: the 12 books amazon execs were handed
from the appendix in brad stone's the everything store (2013), the books amazon execs were reportedly handed. reading these does explain some things
01
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Not a business book at all. (sourced): Bezos has cited this one for how it's narrated, not what it's about.
02
Sam Walton: Made in America
03
Memos from the Chairman - Alan Greenberg
04
The Mythical Man-Month
Older than Amazon itself. Engineers still misquote the adding-people-to-a-late-project line.
05
Built to Last (Collins & Porras)
06
Good to Great
He's talked about this one more than once, not just a book jacket quote.
07
Creation: Life and How to Make It
08
The Innovator's Dilemma
09
The Goal (Goldratt)
Manufacturing theory wrapped in a novel. Amazon's ops people still reference the bottleneck framing.
10
lean thinking
11
Data-Driven Marketing
The odd one out, newest and least famous title here. (sourced) straight from the appendix.
12
The Black Swan
Closes the list. Fits the whole stay-paranoid, day-one thing Bezos always talks about.
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