curated list
books recommended by CEOs
The reading lists of CEOs at Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Disney, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, and other companies that shape the global economy.
Aggregated across 26 people we track · 60 books ranked by how many on this list have publicly recommended each one.
most recommended books on this list
- 5 people
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz · 2014
5 recommenders
- 5 people
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
Clayton M. Christensen · 2003
5 recommenders
- 4 people
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman · 2018
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
Graham Allison · 2017
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson · 2007
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Good To Great : Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Others Don't
Jim Collins · 2001
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
edited by Peter Kaufman · 2006
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015
4 recommenders
- 3 people
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer · 2016
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2)
Jim Collins · 2004
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
John Brooks · 1969
3 recommenders
- 3 people
How to Invest: Masters on the Craft
David M. Rubenstein · 2022
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell · 2008
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight · 2016
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Stephen Pinker · 2012
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
Robert J. Gordon · 2016
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
Brad Smith · 2019
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · 2014
3 recommenders
- 2 people
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
Peter H. Diamandis · 2012
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
Jared Cohen · 2019
2 recommenders
- 2 people
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan · 2021
2 recommenders
- 2 people
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson · 2004
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Nicholas A. Christakis MD PhD · 2019
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World (Exponential Technology Series)
Peter H. Diamandis · 2015
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty · 2014
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
Ian Goodfellow · 2016
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Energy: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
Vaclav Smil · 2006
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond · 2016
2 recommenders
- 2 people
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where is Everybody?
Stephen Webb · 2002
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment
Peter Buffett · 2010
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
David Kushner · 2004
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
John Doerr · 2018
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck · 2006
2 recommenders
- 2 people
MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom (Tony Robbins Financial Freedom Series)
Tony Robbins · 2014
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. · 1995
2 recommenders
on this list
Elon Musk
Ray Dalio
Bill Gates
Tim Cook
Patrick Collison
Sheryl Sandberg
Satya Nadella
Mark Zuckerberg
Eric Schmidt
Jeff Bezos
Tobi Lütke
Bob Iger
Brian Chesky
Daniel Ek
Doug McMillon
Drew Houston
Jamie Dimon
Marc Benioff
Michael Dell
Reed Hastings
Jensen Huang
Howard Schultz
Evan Spiegel
Lloyd Blankfein
Andy Grove
Ginni Rometty
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