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I read what founders say they read. Then I check if they actually said it.

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Ryan Holiday's books to base your life on

15 items
  • 01Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • 02Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
  • 03Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • ··12 more entries
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Charlie Munger's own recommended books, the appendix list

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  • 01The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
  • 02Andrew Carnegie - Joseph Frazier Wall
  • 03The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
  • ··17 more entries
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Books Warren Buffett recommended in his letters

9 items
  • 01The Intelligent Investor
  • 02Poor Charlie's Almanack
  • 03Tap Dancing to Work
  • ··6 more entries
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the complete Stripe Press catalog

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  • 01Built to Grow - Stephanie Friedman
  • 02Poor Charlie's Almanack - edited by Peter D. Kaufman
  • 03Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One - Stewart Brand
  • ··17 more entries
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Bill Gates's 2025 holiday book list

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  • 01Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
  • 02Clearing the Air (Hannah Ritchie)
  • 03Who Knew - Barry Diller
  • ··2 more entries
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Books Elon Musk has actually recommended in interviews

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  • 01Foundation series - Isaac Asimov
  • 02The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
  • 03Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
  • ··8 more entries
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the one book each of Tim Ferriss's guests keeps gifting

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  • 01Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (René Girard)
  • 02Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
  • 03Start with Why (Simon Sinek)
  • ··10 more entries
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Mark Zuckerberg's 2015 book club, 18 of the 23

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  • 01Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
  • 02Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  • 03The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
  • ··15 more entries
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jeff bezos's reading list: the 12 books amazon execs were handed

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  • 01The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
  • 02Sam Walton: Made in America
  • 03Memos from the Chairman - Alan Greenberg
  • ··9 more entries
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Satya Nadella's book recommendations, sourced

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  • 01Mindset - Carol Dweck
  • 02Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg
  • 03Deep Learning - Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
  • ··8 more entries
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Patrick Collison's bookshelf, the ones marked green

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  • 01A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction - Christopher Alexander
  • 02Age of Ambition - Evan Osnos
  • 03Anthropic Bias - Nick Bostrom
  • ··17 more entries
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Naval Ravikant's recommended reading, from navalmanack.com

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  • 01Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
  • 02The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
  • 03Genome - Matt Ridley
  • ··14 more entries
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the books Isaacson says Steve Jobs really read

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  • 01The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen↗
  • 02King Lear by William Shakespeare
  • 03Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • ··5 more entries
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Peter Thiel's recommended books, sourced one by one

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  • 01Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Rene Girard↗
  • 02The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
  • 03Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
  • ··7 more entries
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Bill Gates's summer 2025 reading list

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  • 01Personal History - Katharine Graham
  • 02Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life - Nicholas Kristof
  • 03Educated - Tara Westover
  • ··2 more entries
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