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Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Endorsed by Elon Musk & others
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
Recommended by Elon Musk
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Endorsed by DHH & others
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Endorsed by DHH & others
1984: 75th Anniversary Edition
George Orwell
Endorsed by DHH & others
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Endorsed by Elon Musk & others
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Recommended by George Hotz
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
Recommended by Steve Jobs
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen
Recommended by Steve Jobs
The C Programming Language
Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie
Recommended by Linus Torvalds
The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick Brooks Jr.
Recommended by Linus Torvalds
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Endorsed by Sam Altman & others
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Recommended by Sam Altman
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
Recommended by Sam Altman
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Endorsed by Sam Altman & others
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Recommended by Elite
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Recommended by Marc Andreessen
Poor Charlie’s Almanack
Charles T. Munger
Endorsed by Patrick Collison & others
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Recommended by Marc Zuckerberg
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg
Endorsed by Peter Thiel & others
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Recommended by Marc Andreessen
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
René Girard
Recommended by Peter Thiel
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini
Recommended by Peter Thiel
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
Recommended by Marc Zuckerberg
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
Recommended by Marc Zuckerberg
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
Recommended by Marc Zuckerberg
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Endorsed by Elon Musk & others
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Recommended by Andrej Karpathy
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Recommended by Guillermo Rauch
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Recommended by Elon Musk
Dune (Hardcover Edition)
Frank Herbert
Endorsed by Elon Musk & others
Atlas Shrugged (Hardcover)
Ayn Rand
Endorsed by Elon Musk & others
The Selfish Gene (40th Anniversary Ed.)
Richard Dawkins
Endorsed by Elon Musk & others
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Hardcover)
Walter Isaacson
Recommended by Elon Musk
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
Walter Isaacson
Recommended by Elon Musk
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman": Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman
Endorsed by Marc Zuckerberg & others
The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
Recommended by DHH
The Intelligent Investor, 3rd Ed.
Benjamin Graham
Recommended by DHH
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
Kent Beck
Recommended by DHH
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Martin Fowler
Recommended by DHH
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Martin Fowler
Recommended by DHH
Infinite Jest: A Novel
David Foster Wallace
Recommended by George Hotz
Permutation City: A Novel
Greg Egan
Recommended by George Hotz
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Recommended by George Hotz
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
Endorsed by Andrej Karpathy & others
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Recommended by George Hotz
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Endorsed by Guillermo Rauch & others
Factfulness
Hans Rosling
Recommended by Guillermo Rauch
The Pragmatic Programmer
David Thomas & Andrew Hunt
Endorsed by Guillermo Rauch & others
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
Recommended by Steve Jobs
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Recommended by Steve Jobs
Be Here Now
Ram Dass
Recommended by Steve Jobs
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
Endorsed by Steve Jobs & others
Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest & Clifford Stein
Recommended by ThePrimeagen
Crafting Interpreters
Robert Nystrom
Recommended by ThePrimeagen
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
Recommended by ThePrimeagen
Code Complete
Steve McConnell
Recommended by Linus Torvalds
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
Recommended by Linus Torvalds
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Linus Torvalds & David Diamond
Recommended by Linus Torvalds
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh
Recommended by Sam Altman
A Mathematician's Apology
G.H. Hardy
Recommended by Elite
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Recommended by Marc Andreessen
Originals
Adam Grant
Recommended by Peter Thiel
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Recommended by Marc Zuckerberg
The End of Power
Moisés Naím
Recommended by Marc Zuckerberg
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley
Recommended by Marc Zuckerberg
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Recommended by Marc Zuckerberg
Exhalation: Stories
Ted Chiang
Recommended by Andrej Karpathy
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
Recommended by Andrej Karpathy
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
Nick Lane
Recommended by Andrej Karpathy
His Master's Voice
Stanisław Lem
Recommended by Andrej Karpathy
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Recommended by Patrick Collison
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott
Recommended by Patrick Collison
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
David Kushner
Recommended by Patrick Collison
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander
Recommended by Patrick Collison
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer
Recommended by Patrick Collison
Python Crash Course, 3rd Edition: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming
Eric Matthes
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Recommended by Elite
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Recommended by Guillermo Rauch
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
Recommended by Elite
Theo of Golden
Allen Levi
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
The Let Them Theory
Mel Robbins
The Book of Unusual Knowledge
Trivia Buffs
Murdle: Volume 1
G.T. Karber
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
Roger Williams
Recommended by George Hotz
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do After
Cory Doctorow
Foundation (The Librarians Book 2)
Amelia Spencer
Recommended by Elon Musk