ranked
the 250 most recommended books
From the world’s most-followed founders, authors, podcasters, athletes, and public figures. Ranked by how many people in our dataset have publicly recommended each title.
- 83 people
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015
83 recommenders
- 56 people
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz · 2014
56 recommenders
- 52 people
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear · 2018
52 recommenders
- 52 people
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight · 2016
52 recommenders
- 51 people
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD · 2006
51 recommenders
- 49 people
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · 2014
49 recommenders
- 47 people
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss · 2007
47 recommenders
- 45 people
Animal Farm: George Orwell (Macmillan Collector's Library)
George Orwell · 1996
45 recommenders
- 44 people
The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition
Paulo Coelho · 2014
44 recommenders
- 39 people
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie, Robert Petkoff, Donna Dale Carnegie, Simon & Schuster Audio · 1998
39 recommenders
- 39 people
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David J. Epstein · 2019
39 recommenders
- 38 people
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
Clayton M. Christensen · 2003
38 recommenders
- 33 people
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown · 2014
33 recommenders
- 33 people
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck · 2006
33 recommenders
- 33 people
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Don Miguel Ruiz · 2001
33 recommenders
- 33 people
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries · 2011
33 recommenders
- 32 people
Good To Great : Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Others Don't
Jim Collins · 2001
32 recommenders
- 31 people
The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Morgan Housel · 2020
31 recommenders
- 29 people
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012
29 recommenders
- 29 people
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg · 2012
29 recommenders
- 28 people
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling · 2018
28 recommenders
- 28 people
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa · 2003
28 recommenders
- 28 people
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell · 2008
28 recommenders
- 28 people
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey · 2004
28 recommenders
- 28 people
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker · 2017
28 recommenders
- 27 people
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance · 2015
27 recommenders
- 27 people
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Adam Grant · 2013
27 recommenders
- 27 people
Siddhartha: A Novel. Complete edition with original illustrations
Hermann Hesse · 1981
27 recommenders
- 27 people
The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2007
27 recommenders
- 26 people
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy and translated by Rosamund Bartlett · 2012
26 recommenders
- 26 people
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
edited by Peter Kaufman · 2006
26 recommenders
- 26 people
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Robert T. Kiyosaki · 2001
26 recommenders
- 26 people
The Great Gatsby: Original Text
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925
26 recommenders
- 26 people
Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Timothy Ferriss · 2016
26 recommenders
- 25 people
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan · 2018
25 recommenders
- 25 people
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain · 2012
25 recommenders
- 25 people
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams · 2005
25 recommenders
- 25 people
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt · 2021
25 recommenders
- 24 people
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport · 2016
24 recommenders
- 24 people
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · 2017
24 recommenders
- 24 people
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman · 2018
24 recommenders
- 24 people
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X and assisted by Alex Haley, Laurence Fishburne · 2015
24 recommenders
- 24 people
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Annie Duke · 2018
24 recommenders
- 23 people
Harry Potter: the Complete Series
J. K. Rowling · 2007
23 recommenders
- 23 people
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (2000-10-03)
Stephen King · 2002
23 recommenders
- 23 people
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
Don Norman · 2002
23 recommenders
- 23 people
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson · 2016
23 recommenders
- 22 people
Lolita: Introduction by Martin Amis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Vladimir Nabokov · 1995
22 recommenders
- 22 people
The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1996
22 recommenders
- 22 people
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Eckhart Tolle · 2004
22 recommenders
- 21 people
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth · 2016
21 recommenders
- 21 people
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon Sinek · 2009
21 recommenders
- 20 people
Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull · 2014
20 recommenders
- 20 people
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic
Alfred Lansing · 1999
20 recommenders
- 20 people
Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Scott · 2017
20 recommenders
- 20 people
The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Ichiro Kishimi · 2019
20 recommenders
- 19 people
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · 2018
19 recommenders
- 19 people
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen · 2002
19 recommenders
- 19 people
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath and Dan Heath · 2007
19 recommenders
- 19 people
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant · 2016
19 recommenders
- 19 people
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder · 2015
19 recommenders
- 19 people
The Odyssey
Homer and translated by Emily Wilson · 1999
19 recommenders
- 18 people
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition)
Jocko Willink · 2015
18 recommenders
- 18 people
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2005
18 recommenders
- 18 people
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Nir Eyal · 2019
18 recommenders
- 18 people
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2018
18 recommenders
- 18 people
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Stephen Pinker · 2012
18 recommenders
- 18 people
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff · 2018
18 recommenders
- 18 people
The E-Myth Revisited : Why Most Small Businesses Dont Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber · 1995
18 recommenders
- 18 people
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Drucker · 2006
18 recommenders
- 18 people
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer · 2007
18 recommenders
- 18 people
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 2006
18 recommenders
- 18 people
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig · 2006
18 recommenders
- 17 people
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker · 2018
17 recommenders
- 17 people
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou (READ: Maya Angelou’s Recommended Reads · 1993
17 recommenders
- 17 people
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
David A. Sinclair · 2019
17 recommenders
- 17 people
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Safi Bahcall · 2019
17 recommenders
- 17 people
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Atul Gawande · 2009
17 recommenders
- 17 people
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Ryan Holiday · 2014
17 recommenders
- 17 people
The Richest Man in Babylon: Deluxe Hardbound Edition
George S. Clason · 2002
17 recommenders
- 17 people
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Robert Iger · 2019
17 recommenders
- 17 people
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
Bill Walsh · 2009
17 recommenders
- 17 people
The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
James Dale Davidson · 1999
17 recommenders
- 17 people
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant · 2021
17 recommenders
- 16 people
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · 2018
16 recommenders
- 16 people
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee · 2018
16 recommenders
- 16 people
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore · 2006
16 recommenders
- 16 people
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Tony Hsieh · 2010
16 recommenders
- 16 people
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter · 1999
16 recommenders
- 16 people
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People
Elad Gil · 2018
16 recommenders
- 16 people
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard · 2006
16 recommenders
- 16 people
Little Women (Puffin in Bloom)
Louisa May Alcott · 2004
16 recommenders
- 16 people
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition
Peter Bevelin · 2007
16 recommenders
- 16 people
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Eric Jorgenson · 2020
16 recommenders
- 16 people
The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
William N. Thorndike Jr. · 2012
16 recommenders
- 16 people
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis · 2017
16 recommenders
- 15 people
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson · 2004
15 recommenders
- 15 people
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2)
Jim Collins · 2004
15 recommenders
- 15 people
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson · 2014
15 recommenders
- 15 people
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen · 2000
15 recommenders
- 15 people
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch · 2011
15 recommenders
- 15 people
The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2002
15 recommenders
- 15 people
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Crystal S. Chan, illustrated by Nokman Poon · 2003
15 recommenders
- 15 people
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · 2018
15 recommenders
- 15 people
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow · 2004
15 recommenders
- 15 people
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
Ben Horowitz · 2019
15 recommenders
- 14 people
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
William B. Irvine · 2009
14 recommenders
- 14 people
Catch-22: Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury (Everyman's Library)
Joseph Heller · 2004
14 recommenders
- 14 people
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
Steve Krug · 2013
14 recommenders
- 14 people
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson · 2007
14 recommenders
- 14 people
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez · 2019
14 recommenders
- 14 people
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb · 2019
14 recommenders
- 14 people
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
John Doerr · 2018
14 recommenders
- 14 people
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Cass Sunstein & Richard Thaler · 2009
14 recommenders
- 14 people
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
Kim Stanley Robinson · 2020
14 recommenders
- 14 people
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
Gary Keller · 2013
14 recommenders
- 14 people
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
Thomas S. Kuhn · 1996
14 recommenders
- 14 people
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
Daniel Coyle · 2009
14 recommenders
- 14 people
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell · 2002
14 recommenders
- 13 people
Alice in Wonderland: The Original 1865 Edition With Complete Illustrations By Sir John Tenniel (A Classic Novel of Lewis Carroll)
Lewis Carroll · 2000
13 recommenders
- 13 people
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal · 2014
13 recommenders
- 13 people
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell · 2019
13 recommenders
- 13 people
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg · 2013
13 recommenders
- 13 people
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Ray Dalio · 2021
13 recommenders
- 13 people
ReWork: (Vermilion Life Essentials)
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · 2010
13 recommenders
- 13 people
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
Professor James C. Scott · 1998
13 recommenders
- 13 people
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Jodi Kantor · 2019
13 recommenders
- 13 people
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom · 2014
13 recommenders
- 13 people
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip Heath & Dan Heath · 2010
13 recommenders
- 13 people
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone · 2013
13 recommenders
- 13 people
The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
Matt Mochary · 2019
13 recommenders
- 13 people
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
John M. Barry · 2005
13 recommenders
- 13 people
The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition
Ernest Hemingway · 1996
13 recommenders
- 13 people
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder · 2008
13 recommenders
- 13 people
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg &Alan Eagle · 2019
13 recommenders
- 12 people
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer · 2016
12 recommenders
- 12 people
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · 2004
12 recommenders
- 12 people
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman · 2018
12 recommenders
- 12 people
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink · 2009
12 recommenders
- 12 people
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond · 2016
12 recommenders
- 12 people
Exhalation
and Stories Of Your Life by Ted Chiang · 2019
12 recommenders
- 12 people
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990
12 recommenders
- 12 people
Love in the Time of Choler a
Gabriel García Márquez · 2003
12 recommenders
- 12 people
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition
Al Ries · 2001
12 recommenders
- 12 people
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
Scott Kupor · 2019
12 recommenders
- 12 people
Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Danny Meyer · 2006
12 recommenders
- 12 people
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins · 2006
12 recommenders
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