Discover the most sought-after reading list, as featured in Forbes! Explore the books favored by the top 1% of over 600 highly successful individuals, meticulously curated for you. Save time scrolling – we’ve included only those recommended by three or more billionaires, making them truly noteworthy.
Principles (1): Life and WorkRay Dalio
Sapiens (2): A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noal Harari
Play Nice But Win (3): A CEO’s Journey from Founder to Leader
Michael Dell & James Kaplan
High Output Management (4)Andrew S. Grove
Atlas Shrugged (5)
Ayn Rand
The Innovator’s Dilemma (6): The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
Clayton M. Christensen
Poor Charlie’s Almanack (7): The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
Warren E. Buffett , Charles T. Munger
The Hard Thing About Hard Things (8): Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz
Snow Crash (9)
Neal Stephenson
Zero to One (10): Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel &, Blake Masters
Shoe Dog (11): A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Phil Knight
Blitzscaling (12): The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh
Only the Paranoid Survive (13): How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
Andrew S. Grove
The Lean Startup (14): How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries
Antifragile (15): Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Fountainhead (16)
by Ayn Rand
The Art Of War (17)
by Sun Tzu
Good to Great (18)Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t
by Jim Collins
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” (19)Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman
Thinking, Fast and Slow (20)
by Daniel Kahneman
Measure What Matters (21)How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
by John Doerr
The Rational Optimist (22)How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley
The Better Angels of Our Nature (23)Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
Designing Brand Identity (24)An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team
by Alina Wheeler
Outliers (25)The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
The Changing World Order (26)Why Nations Succeed and Fail
by Ray Dalio
Lean In (27)Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg
7 Powers (28)The Foundations of Business Strategy
by Hamilton Helmer
Cryptonomicon (29)
by Neal Stephenson
Getting to Yes (30)Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by Roger Fisher
The Outsiders (31)Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
by William N. Thorndike
Thinking, Fast and Slow (31) zzzzzzz
by Daniel Kahneman
The Selfish Gene (32)
by IRichard Dawkins
The Rise and Fall of American Growth (33)The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
by Robert J. Gordon
Mindset (34)The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
Guns, Germs, and Steel (35)The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
Einstein (36)His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
Becoming Steve Jobs (37)The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
by Brent Schlender
Business Adventures (38)Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
by John Brooks
The Black Swan (39)Incerto, Book 2
by Nassim Taleb
Originals (40)How Non-Conformists Move the World
by Adam Grant
Team of Rivals (41)The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Crossing the Chasm (42)Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
by Geoffrey A. Moore
The Network State (43)How To Start a New Country
by Balaji Srinivasan
Abundance (44)The Future Is Better Than You Think
by Peter Diamandis
New Power (45)How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World–and How to Make It Work for You
by Jeremy Heimans
Keeping At It (46)The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
by Paul A. Volcker
The Politics Industry (47)How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
by Katherine M. Gehl
Trailblazer (48)The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change
by Marc Benioff
Dear Founder (49)Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business
by BMaynard Webb
The Dream Machine (50)
by M. Mitchell Waldrop
The Idea Factory (51)Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner
Whole Earth Discipline (52)Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary
by Stewart Brand
The Courage to Be Disliked (53)The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
by Ichiro Kishimi
Loonshots (54)How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
by Safi Bahcall
Sam Walton (55)Made In America
by Sam Walton
The Score Takes Care of Itself (56)My Philosophy of Leadership
by Bill Walsh
Destined for War (57)Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
by Graham Allison
Built to Last (58)Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
by Jim Collins
How To Win Friends and Influence People (59)
by Dale Carnegie
Range (60)Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David J. Epstein
Made to Stick (61)Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by Chip Heath
The Ride of a Lifetime (62)Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
by Robert Iger
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (63)
by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (64)An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
When Breath Becomes Air (65)
by Paul Kalanithi
The Catcher in the Rye (66)
by J.D. Salinger
Stuff Matters (67)Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
by Mark Miodownik
Steve Jobs (68)
by Walter Isaacson
Homo Deus (69)A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (70)
by Yuval Noah Harari
Skin in the Game (71)Incerto, Book 5
by Nassim Taleb
Factfulness (72)Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling
The Checklist Manifesto (73)How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
Masters of Doom (74)How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by David Kushner
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (75)
by Thomas Piketty
The Mythical Man-Month (76)Essays on Software Engineering
by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The 4-Hour Workweek (77)Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Tim Ferriss
Lying(78)
by Sam Harris