Books recommended by Patrick O'Shaughnessy

- When Breath Becomes Air: (by Paul Kalanithi).
Recommended by Bill Gates , Melinda Gates , Anthony Pompliano , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Tim Cook , Peter King , Shauna Niequist , James Clear
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (by Yuval Noah Harari).
Recommended by Ashton Kutcher , Bill Gates , Bill Gurley , Daniel Ek , Demis Hassabis , James Cameron , Joe Rogan , Karlie Kloss , Keith Rabois , Kishore Biyani , Lex Fridman , Mark Zuckerberg , Naval Ravikant , Peter Attia , Ray Dalio , Reid Hoffman , Richard Branson , Ryan Shea , Sam Kass , Sebastian Junger , Vinod Khosla , Whitney Cummings , PewDiePie , Melinda Gates , Anthony Pompliano , Changpeng Zhao , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Chris Evans , Mark Manson , Simon Mayo , Penn Jillette , James Clear
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (by Phil Knight).
Recommended by Alexis Ohanian , Bill Gates , Bill Gurley , Brian Armstrong , Jason Calacanis , Kathryn Minshew , Ryan Shea , Tobi Lütke , Vlad Tenev , Warren Buffett , Anthony Pompliano , Austen Allred , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Tim Cook , Trung Phan , Blake Randall
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (by Robert Cialdini).
Recommended by Adam Robinson , Alexis Ohanian , Charlie Munger , Guy Kawasaki , Max Levchin , Naval Ravikant , Neil Strauss , Noah Kagan , Ramit Sethi , Samy Kamkar , Scott Adams , Tobi Lütke , Andrew Wilkinson , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Mark Manson , Alex Hormozi , Michael Hyatt , James Clear
- Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (by Keith Johnstone).
Recommended by Patrick O’Shaughnessy , James Clear
- Einstein's Dreams: (by Alan Lightman).
Recommended by Eric Weinstein , Ev Williams , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor (by Howard Marks).
Recommended by Bill Gurley , Peter Attia , Warren Buffett , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Lyn Alden
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (by Al Ries).
Recommended by Ev Williams , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Michael Hyatt
- Thinking in Systems: (by Donella H. Meadows).
Recommended by Ryan Shea , Tobi Lütke , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Metaphors We Live By: (by George Lakoff).
Recommended by Nick Szabo , Tristan Harris , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Antifragile: Incerto, Book 3 (by Nassim Taleb).
Recommended by Ev Williams , James Altucher , Tobi Lütke , Vinod Khosla , Vlad Tenev , Changpeng Zhao , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Shane Parrish , Tom Bilyeu
- Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy (by Alex Moazed).
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- Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade (by Peter Maguire).
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- As One Is: To Free the Mind from All Conditioning (by Jiddu Krishnamurti).
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- Quality Investing: Owning the best companies for the long term (by Torkell T. Eide).
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- The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State (by John Micklethwait).
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- One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games (by Joost van Dreunen).
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- The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (by Lawrence A. Cunningham).
Recommended by Bill Ackman , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew (by Alan Lightman).
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- Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is and What You Can Do About It (by Steven Pressfield).
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- The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (by Wade Davis).
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- Success: (by Martin Amis).
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- The History of Money: (by Jack Weatherford).
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- Scientific Advertising: (by Claude C. Hopkins).
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- Ham On Rye: A Novel (by Charles Bukowski).
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- Women: A Novel (by Charles Bukowski).
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- Saving Capitalism From Short-Termism: How to Build Long-Term Value and Take Back Our Financial Future (by Alfred Rappaport).
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- Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment (by James Montier).
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- The Snow Leopard: (by Peter Matthiessen).
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- Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words (by David Whyte).
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- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business (by Josh Kaufman).
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- The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling (by Adam Kucharski).
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- Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment (by Michael D. Smith).
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- Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (by Edward Chancellor).
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- Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle (by Edward Chancellor).
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- Gratitude: (by Oliver Sacks).
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- A Technique for Producing Ideas: A Simple Five Step Formula for Producing Ideas (by James Webb Young).
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- Inside the Investor's Brain: The Power of Mind Over Money (by Richard L. Peterson).
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- The Wisdom of Life: (by Arthur Schopenhauer).
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- Walking: (by Henry David Thoreau).
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- Concentrated Investing: (by Allen C. Benello).
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- Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (by Robert Kurson).
Recommended by Ryan Holiday , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Essays and Aphorisms: (by Arthur Schopenhauer).
Recommended by Ryan Holiday , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way (by Lars Mytting).
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- Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story (by David Einhorn).
Recommended by Bill Ackman , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature (by Douglas T Kenrick).
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- A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings (by Coleman Barks).
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- Essays and Lectures: (by Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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- Last Chance to See: (by Douglas Adams).
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- The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions (by David Quammen).
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- Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (by Martin Ford).
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- It's Earnings That Count: Finding Stocks with Earnings Power for Long-term Profits (by Hewitt Heiserman).
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- Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction (by Tracy Kidder).
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- Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (by Robert Coram).
Recommended by Ryan Holiday , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future (by Martin Ford).
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- The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (by Carl Sagan).
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- WAR: (by Sebastian Junger).
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- The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (by John Vaillant).
Recommended by Ryan Holiday , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Successful Investing Is a Process: Structuring Efficient Portfolios for Outperformance (by Jacques Lussier).
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- Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) (by William Poundstone).
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- Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (by Edward De Bono).
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- Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism (by Jeff Gramm).
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- Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (by Carroll Quigley).
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- What Works on Wall Street: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time (by James O'Shaughnessy).
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- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (by Yvon Chouinard).
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- Deep Value: (by Tobias E. Carlisle).
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- The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (by John Gall).
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- Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine (by Robert Coram).
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- Rational Expectations: Asset Allocation for Investing Adults (by William Bernstein).
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- Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed (by Paul Cronin).
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- The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (by Mark Forsyth).
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- A Short History of Myth: (by Karen Armstrong).
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- Diffusion of Innovations: (by Everett M. Rogers).
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- The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch (by Jonathan Gottschall).
Recommended by Ben Shapiro , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge (by David Dreman).
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- The Value Investors: Lessons from the World's Top Fund Managers (by Ronald Chan).
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- The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble (by Richard Dale).
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- Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak (by Travis Sawchik).
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- The Warrior Ethos: (by Steven Pressfield).
Recommended by Aubrey Marcus , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing (by Andrew Ang).
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- Innovation and Entrepreneurship: (by Peter F. Drucker).
Recommended by Matt Mullenweg , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (by Parker J. Palmer).
Recommended by Jerry Colonna , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (by Tim Harford).
Recommended by Nassim Taleb , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence (by Benoit Mandelbrot).
Recommended by Nassim Taleb , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: (by Peter Bevelin).
Recommended by Nassim Taleb , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior (by Geoffrey Miller).
Recommended by Keith Rabois , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (by David Eagleman).
Recommended by Ray Dalio , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Tom Bilyeu
- The Right Stuff: (by Tom Wolfe).
Recommended by Ben Shapiro , Richard Branson , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment (by George Leonard).
Recommended by Ev Williams , Maurice Ashley , Terry Laughlin , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (by Shaun Usher).
Recommended by Caterina Fake , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Upanishads: (by Eknath Easwaran).
Recommended by Caterina Fake , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Ascent Of Man: (by Jacob Bronowski).
Recommended by David Deutsch , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (by Daniel Yergin).
Recommended by Bill Gates , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Mohnish Pabrai , Trung Phan
- Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business (by Danny Meyer).
Recommended by Bill Gurley , Chip Conley , Julie Rice , Noah Kagan , Fred Wilson , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Trung Phan
- Natural Born Heroes: Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance (by Christopher McDougall).
Recommended by Laird Hamilton , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (without Money or Muscle) (by Deepak Malhotra).
Recommended by Bill Gurley , Vinod Khosla , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord: (by Peter Matthiessen).
Recommended by Sebastian Junger , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (by Peter Wohlleben).
Recommended by Emma Watson , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Brit Marling , Morgan Housel
- Self Reliance: (by Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Recommended by Barack Obama , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Ask the Dust: (by John Fante).
Recommended by Neil Strauss , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave (by Adam Alter).
Recommended by Vinod Khosla , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King (by Rich Cohen).
Recommended by Jason Calacanis , Ryan Holiday , Andrew Wilkinson , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Trung Phan
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (by Peter L. Bernstein).
Recommended by Howard Marks , Michael Mauboussin , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Managing Oneself: (by Peter Drucker).
Recommended by Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Shane Parrish
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (by Bessel van der Kolk).
Recommended by Garry Tan , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (by Neil Postman).
Recommended by Keith Rabois , Matt Mullenweg , Patrick Collison , Tristan Harris , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Michael Batnick
- The One Sentence Persuasion Course: 27 Words to Make the World Do Your Bidding (by Blair Warren).
Recommended by Scott Adams , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind: (by Julian Jaynes).
Recommended by Adam Robinson , Naval Ravikant , Sam Altman , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Power of Myth: (by Joseph Campbell).
Recommended by Dave Elitch , Naval Ravikant , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Tom Bilyeu , Pete Holmes
- The Money Game: (by Adam Smith).
Recommended by Brendan Moynihan , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Double Your Profits: In Six Months or Less (by Bob Fifer).
Recommended by Ryan Petersen , Jamie Dimon , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Writing Life: (by Annie Dillard).
Recommended by Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Russell Moore
- The Robert Collier Letter Book: (by Robert Collier).
Recommended by Ramit Sethi , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public (by Lynn Stout).
Recommended by Tom Peters , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi).
Recommended by Greg McKeown , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (by Paul Graham).
Recommended by Brian Armstrong , Derek Sivers , Ev Williams , Keith Rabois , Ryan Holiday , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (by Laurence Gonzales).
Recommended by Joel McHale , Kelly Starrett , Laird Hamilton , Michael Mauboussin , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces: (by Joseph Campbell).
Recommended by Darren Aronofsky , Kyle Maynard , Ray Dalio , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (by Ed Catmull).
Recommended by Alexis Ohanian , Demis Hassabis , Ezra Klein , Jason Calacanis , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Mauboussin , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Trung Phan
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (by Scott Adams).
Recommended by Naval Ravikant , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Danny Miranda
- Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley (by Antonio Garcia Martinez).
Recommended by Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Raoul Pal
- The Act of Creation: (by Arthur Koestler).
Recommended by Adam Robinson , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (by James Dale Davidson).
Recommended by Brian Armstrong , Naval Ravikant , Peter Thiel , Ryan Shea , Balaji Srinivasan , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Sahil Lavingia
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (by Brad Stone).
Recommended by Doug McMillon , Matt Mullenweg , Tracy DiNunzio , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Mark Manson , Jodie Cook
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (by Candice Millard).
Recommended by Ryan Holiday , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Saagar Enjeti
- The Dog Stars: (by Peter Heller).
Recommended by Caroline Paul , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World (by Mark Spitznagel).
Recommended by Nassim Taleb , Anthony Pompliano , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Paul Tudor Jones
- Finite and Infinite Games: (by James Carse).
Recommended by Graham Duncan , Jane McGonigal , Kevin Kelly , Ryan Shea , Simon Sinek , Stewart Brand , Tobi Lütke , Tristan Harris , Daniel Gross , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade (by Robert Cialdini).
Recommended by Naval Ravikant , Scott Adams , Michael Mauboussin , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Alex Hormozi
- Principles: Life and Work (by Ray Dalio).
Recommended by Arianna Huffington , Bill Gates , Bryan Johnson , Diddy , Doug McMillon , Drew Houston , Dustin Moskovitz , Gary Vaynerchuk , Howard Marks , Jack Dorsey , Kevin Systrom , Lex Fridman , Marc Benioff , Mark Cuban , Michael Bloomberg , Naval Ravikant , Reed Hastings , Tim Ferriss , Tony Robbins , Austen Allred , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Tom Bilyeu , Marty Cagan , James Clear
- Siddhartha: (by Hermann Hesse).
Recommended by Bryan Johnson , David Blaine , Emma Watson , Lex Fridman , Naval Ravikant , Navdeep Chandel , Neil Strauss , Tim Ferriss , Wim Hof , Fred Wilson , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Phil Jackson , Jack Edwards , James Clear , Harry Styles , Justin Kan
- The Razor's Edge: (by W Somerset Maugham).
Recommended by Cal Fussman , Dan Carlin , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (by Tracy Kidder).
Recommended by Bill Gates , Donald Knuth , Jeff Dean , Rainn Wilson , Richard Branson , Patrick O’Shaughnessy
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (by Peter Thiel).
Recommended by Andrew Ng , Ben Horowitz , Bryan Johnson , Dustin Moskovitz , Elon Musk , Eric Weinstein , Keith Rabois , Kishore Biyani , Luis von Ahn , Marc Andreessen , Mark Zuckerberg , Matt Mullenweg , Max Levchin , Ryan Petersen , Sam Altman , Lee Stranahan , Nassim Taleb , Chris Dixon , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Tom Bilyeu , Brian Dean , Rupert Murdoch
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success (by William N. Thorndike).
Recommended by Brian Armstrong , Charlie Munger , Warren Buffett , Michael Mauboussin , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Sam Hinkie , Michael Dell
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (by Eric Hoffer).
Recommended by Eric Weinstein , George Raveling , Marc Andreessen , Mark Cuban , Seth Godin , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Mark Manson