Fiction
Novels, short stories, plays, poetry, graphic novels and children's literature of every genre. Read for the story and the language rather than for information.
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- The JungleUpton Sinclair, 1906
- The GoalEliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, 1984
- The Phoenix ProjectGene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford, 2013
- The New AtlantisFrancis Bacon, 1627
- Resurrection from the UndergroundRene Girard, 1963
A novel of a Lithuanian immigrant family ruined in Chicago's meatpacking yards.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Benedict Evans
A plant manager learns that a system's output is set by its bottleneck.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 5 others
A novel in which an IT manager rescues a failing project using lessons from The Goal.
Bacon's utopia of organised research; science as an institution
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Peter Thiel
Girard reading Dostoevsky; mimetic rivalry and resentment
Recommended by: Peter Thiel
Novel, but the standard introduction to how ship finance actually works.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Sophie Bakalar
Recommended by: Bozoma Saint John, Michelle Obama and 1 other
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, David Kadavy, Tim O’Reilly
Recommended by: Richard Branson
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Captain Ahab drives his whaling crew to hunt the white whale that maimed him.
Recommended by: Steve Jobs
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 2 others
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Richard Branson
Recommended by: Sophie Bakalar
Recommended by: Eric Weinstein
Short-story collection; his first Wall Street fiction.
The three Darling children's adventures in Never Land with the boy who won't grow up.
Recommended by: Richard Branson
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Mike Maples, Jr. and 1 other
A novel of a rich man of unknown origin on Long Island and the woman he wants back.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison, Anna Cheng and 3 others
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
A novel of a Brahmin's son in ancient India who seeks understanding his own way.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Naval Ravikant and 6 others
Bertie and Jeeves help, and sometimes hinder, the love-struck Bingo Little.
Recommended by: Jessica Livingston, Paul Graham
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
A novel of a future world where people are bred in hatcheries into contented castes.
Recommended by: Stewart Brand, Matt Mullenweg and 3 others
A psychiatrist marries his wealthy patient, and the marriage destroys him.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Bob Iger
Recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Sahil Lavingia
A novel in which industrialists vanish from an economy run by government directives.
Recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 18 others
A novel of Miyamoto Musashi's path from the Battle of Sekigahara to master swordsman.
Recommended by: Diana Kimball
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Sophie Bakalar
Recommended by: Gaby Goldberg, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Paul Graham
A novel of an American with Spanish guerrillas sent to blow up a bridge.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, David Kadavy and 1 other
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday
Recommended by: Stewart Brand
A novel of an architect who will build only by his own judgment, whatever it costs.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ev Williams, Iman Gadzhi and 5 others
Recommended by: Elon Musk, Stewart Brand
A novel built around a 999-line poem a fictional poet wrote in his last 20 days.
Recommended by: Mario Gabriele
A novel of a sixteen-year-old's days alone in New York after his school expels him.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ryan Holiday, Bill Gates and 2 others
A stranded pilot meets a prince from a tiny asteroid who tells him of his rose.
Recommended by: Maria Popova, Ricardo Semler
Short parables and paradoxes from Kafka's fiction and letters, in German and English.
Recommended by: Ricardo Semler
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Tim Ferriss
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
A novel: a mathematician foresees an empire's fall and plans to shorten the dark age.
Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Adam Gazzaley and 11 others
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Delian Asparouhov
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ryan Holiday and 1 other
An old fisherman, a boy and a giant fish in the Gulf Stream off Havana.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Jack Dorsey
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nir Eyal, Ryan Holiday
Recommended by: Elon Musk, Stewart Brand
Recommended by: Steve Jobs
Recommended by: Paul Graham
A novel of schoolboys stranded on an island whose self-rule collapses into violence.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Alexey Moiseenkov, Elon Musk and 2 others
A novel of the quest to destroy a ring of power that corrupts all who use it.
Recommended by: Reid Hoffman, Alexey Moiseenkov, Elon Musk and 5 others
Recommended by: Sophie Bakalar
Recommended by: Donald Trump
Recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Joel Connolly and 2 others
Young writer friends wander from coast to coast in search of whatever they find.
Recommended by: Ev Williams
Recommended by: Diana Kimball, Guy Proops and 2 others
Recommended by: Ryan Holiday
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Shane Parrish and 1 other
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Sahil Lavingia
Recommended by: Eric Weinstein
One day of a prisoner in a Soviet Gulag labour camp, and the suffering it holds.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Richard Branson
A picture book about love and acceptance.
Recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Mark Zuckerberg
Recommended by: Patrick O'Shaughnessy
A novel of a feudal space empire fighting over a desert planet and its spice.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Stewart Brand, Andrew Chen and 8 others
“a novel by Heinlein called The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which featured an intelligent computer called Mike” — Paul Graham
Source: What I Worked On — paulgraham.com (February 2021)
Recommended by: Paul Graham, Delian Asparouhov, Elon Musk
Recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Tim Ferriss
A novel in which the devil, as Professor Woland, brings chaos to Soviet Moscow.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Alexey Moiseenkov and 3 others
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Richard Branson, Fred Wilson
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Stanley McChrystal
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
A Kansas City lawyer buries himself in work whenever his family needs something.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
A crime novel of Vito Corleone's Mafia family in New York.
Recommended by: David Friedberg, Tucker Max
Recommended by: Naval Ravikant
Recommended by: Ev Williams
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
A novel of Marco Polo describing imagined cities to the emperor Kublai Khan.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 2 others
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
A girl's letter falls into the clutches of one monster after another on its way.
Recommended by: Ed Catmull
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Michael Bloomberg
Recommended by: Sheryl Sandberg
Recommended by: Sophia Amoruso
Recommended by: Melinda Gates, Tucker Max
A secret defence project needs a rare element that lies only in the Titanic's hold.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Elon Musk
Recommended by: Michael Bloomberg
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Naval Ravikant and 1 other
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Tucker Max
Reviews and essays on more than forty modern American poets.
Recommended by: Sheryl Sandberg
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Sam Altman
Recommended by: Elon Musk, Sahil Lavingia
Recommended by: Ev Williams, Rana el Kaliouby
An American naval commander uncovers a long-buried secret US-British treaty.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
In 1979 a prosperous car dealer, co-owner of the lot, is haunted by regrets.
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
Recommended by: Julie Stevanja
Ten short stories of betrayal, blackmail, murder and revenge, each with a twist.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Naval Ravikant
A New York detective's case draws in the Mossad, Muslim extremists and the US Army.
Recommended by: Marc Goodman
A novel of a gifted boy trained in an orbiting school for war against aliens.
Recommended by: Alex Lieberman, Eric Jorgenson, Ev Williams and 4 others
A philosophy student marries a math prodigy and weighs the mind against the body.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
A dystopian novel set in Gilead, a patriarchal theocracy in near-future New England.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Samantha Wong
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
A space opera of a war between the Culture, a machine-run utopia, and its enemies.
Recommended by: Stewart Brand, Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk and 1 other
Recommended by: Mario Gabriele, Patrick O'Shaughnessy
A prosecutor hunting a colleague's killer is himself charged with the murder.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
A satire of ambition, race, class and greed around a 1980s New York bond trader.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ev Williams
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Daniel Ek and 9 others
Recommended by: Stewart Brand, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and 1 other
An Indian princess born in the 1890s lives through the end of British rule.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Stewart Brand, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Abi Tyas Tunggal and 2 others
Recommended by: Richard Branson, Jordan Hughes
A rhyming send-off for graduates of all ages on the ups and downs ahead.
Recommended by: Richard Branson
In 1989 an overweight car dealer with a failing heart copes with a son on cocaine.
“I finally made it through the entire Rabbit series. This book was by far the weakest of the four, and it still makes my top 5 list. Updike is, in my opinion, the best fiction writer of the last century.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Newsletter
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
Recommended by: Stewart Brand, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
A British nurse in 1945 walks through a standing stone into the Scotland of 1743.
Recommended by: Sophie Bakalar
Recommended by: Jackie Vullinghs
The colonisation of Mars, from the arrival of the First Hundred to a revolution.
Recommended by: Delian Asparouhov
A novel of a hacker in a corporate-run America and its virtual world, the Metaverse.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant, Alexis Ohanian and 12 others
An ex-cop, almost ex-drunk law partner takes on a sensitive task for his firm.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
A novel of an adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery and its predictions.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason
Recommended by: Caterina Fake
Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Naval Ravikant
A writer's fifty-year path from Trappist monk to a forgotten universal religion.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Tim O’Reilly
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 1 other
Two schoolboys grow up in a crowded Bombay chawl in the 1960s.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Indian myth, epic history and three college students who go in search of America.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
A novel of a nanotech future and a stolen copy of an interactive teaching book.
Recommended by: Andrew Chen, Bill Gurley, Ev Williams and 2 others
Recommended by: Adam Robinson, Kevin Kelly, Tim O’Reilly
Recommended by: Safi Bahcall
Recommended by: Elon Musk, Sophie Bakalar
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
A novel of an insomniac who starts a secret fighting club with a wild extremist.
Recommended by: Ev Williams, Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday and 1 other
Recommended by: Melanie Perkins, Terrance McArthur and 1 other
Recommended by: Adam Gazzaley
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Matt Mullenweg
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Stories and novel excerpts by Indian writers from independence in 1947 to 1997.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
On a dust-swept prairie, a girl scarred by an accident loses her mother and piano.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Plays, memoirs, letters, essays, stories, poems and songs, many from the Bengali.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Ryan Holiday
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Sophie Bakalar
Recommended by: Chris Fussell, Ron Conway
Recommended by: David Cancel, Ron Conway, Sam Altman
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Bill Gates
A novel of wartime codebreakers and their descendants building a data haven.
Recommended by: Ev Williams, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel and 1 other
Recommended by: Eric Weinstein
In a small Colorado town, a high-school teacher is left to raise his two boys alone.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Ev Williams
Recommended by: Rana el Kaliouby, Sahil Lavingia
Recommended by: Stewart Brand, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos
Recommended by: David Friedberg
Recommended by: Barack Obama, Melinda Gates
A comic about Elijah Snow, a 100-year-old man among archaeologists of the impossible.
Recommended by: Naval Ravikant
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Economics argued through a novel; markets and their moral defence
“there is a book called The Invisible Heart which explains basic economics to most people” — Joel Greenblatt
Source: Masters in Business transcript: Joel Greenblatt (2018)
Recommended by: Joel Greenblatt, Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Radhika Jones
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Marc Andreessen, Ryan Shea, Zooko Wilcox
Recommended by: Naval Ravikant
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Frank Blake, Tyler Cowen
Eight science-fiction stories, each working out one premise with rigour.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Tim Ferriss and 3 others
Recommended by: Ev Williams
A novel of a clerk who rewrites history under a totalitarian state that watches all.
Recommended by: Richard Branson, David Heinemeier Hansson and 4 others
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Tim Ferriss
An orphan boy steals food to survive on the streets of Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, seen by the engineer running the local aqueduct.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Donald Trump, Ev Williams
A wealthy boy and his father's servant's son, in an Afghanistan being destroyed.
Recommended by: Ann Miura-Ko, James Altucher
An Indian-American boy named Gogol rejects his name and his parents' values.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Rana el Kaliouby
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Kara Swisher
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Guy Proops
Recommended by: Paul Graham
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Stewart Brand, Eric Weinstein
Recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Ed Cooke
Recommended by: Ann Miura-Ko, James Altucher, Tim Ferriss
A Latin teacher roams Lisbon seeking the truth about an author he is obsessed with.
Recommended by: Tim O’Reilly
A night-shift worker in a Tokyo boxed-lunch factory commits a brutal murder.
Recommended by: Audrey Gelman
Recommended by: Naval Ravikant
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
The first book of a heroic fantasy trilogy, the Kingkiller Chronicle.
Recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Michael Batko
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Brian Koppelman
A novel of a teenager hunting 1980s-themed puzzles in a virtual world for a fortune.
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Astro Teller and 7 others
In the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, sixteen-year-old Katniss fights to survive.
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Sophie Bakalar
A novel in which a scientist answers an alien warning and invites first contact.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Sophie Bakalar and 9 others
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
A thriller about a computer program that runs on after its creator's death.
Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Alexis Ohanian and 2 others
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
The late 1950s, when the Soviet planned economy seemed briefly to deliver abundance.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
A Culture novel: a woman marked for her family's shame, and a war with death itself.
Recommended by: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Naval Ravikant
Recommended by: Caterina Fake
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Fake documents giving made-up "true stories" of Dylan, the Stones and other bands.
“the book he wrote about it is hilarious” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Essay
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
A young Nigerian doctor walks Manhattan, thinking over his relationships.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
A picture book that asks children to press dots, shake the pages and tilt the book.
Recommended by: John Maeda
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
A novel of an astronaut left alone on Mars who must survive until rescue.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Adam Ho, Bill Gates and 4 others
Recommended by: Guy Proops, Mario Gabriele
A novel of the young Einstein's dreams of different kinds of time, in 1905.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Eric Weinstein and 2 others
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Diana Kimball
A Chinese dissident's essays and poems on tyranny, land disputes, Tibet and freedom.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Bob Iger, Diana Kimball and 1 other
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Recommended by: Paul Graham
An officer must find a 9,000-year-old man to clear her name as her people go Sublime.
Recommended by: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos
A novel of a poor farmer's son who moves to the city and gets rich bottling water.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Chris Sacca, David Cancel and 1 other
A woman who escaped a child-snatcher's Rolls-Royce as a girl must now save her son.
Recommended by: Radhika Jones
Recommended by: Radhika Jones
Recommended by: Radhika Jones
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Gaby Goldberg
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Nine science-fiction stories, each working through one idea with care.
Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Tim Ferriss, Andrew Chen and 2 others
A novel of a planned Ohio suburb upset by the arrival of an artist and her daughter.
Recommended by: Melinda Gates, Reese Witherspoon and 2 others
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Jim Kwik
Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan
“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Thomas Gayner
A woman at Burning Man is pulled into unravelling a sinister mystery at its heart.
Recommended by: Brad Feld
Poems on Vietnamese heritage, family, war, the body, sexuality and violence.
Recommended by: Tim Ferriss
The Norse myths retold, with Odin and the other major gods of the northern pantheon.
Recommended by: Sophie Bakalar
An unborn child overhears his mother and his uncle plot against his father.
Recommended by: Antonio García Martínez
Recommended by: Paul Graham
Recommended by: Vinod Khosla, Andrew Wilkinson, Chris Dixon and 1 other
Recommended by: Chamath Palihapitiya
Recommended by: Reese Witherspoon, Zoë Foster Blake
Recommended by: Alexey Moiseenkov
A 14-year-old girl on the California coast learns her life with her father is unsafe.
Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake
Greek myths retold, from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire.
Recommended by: Sophie Bakalar
A novel of a mindfulness-app founder, a tech-blog reporter and a stray text message.
Recommended by: Audrey Gelman, Bill Gurley
Recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Melinda Gates, Reese Witherspoon and 1 other
Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake
Recommended by: Arianna Huffington, Bill Gates and 1 other
Recommended by: Caterina Fake
In 2000 Manhattan, a young woman tries to sleep away a year on prescription pills.
Recommended by: Claire Diaz-Ortiz
A novel of two Irish teenagers who circle each other from school to Trinity College.
Recommended by: Gaby Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and 2 others
An American scholar and a Moroccan runaway in a Paris haunted by Vichy and Algeria.
Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake
A family moves to Alaska in 1974, where winter and an impulsive father test them.
Recommended by: Reese Witherspoon, Zoë Foster Blake
A novel of nine people whose lives are bound up with trees and their defence.
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Tim Ferriss and 2 others
Recommended by: Reese Witherspoon, Sophie Bakalar
Recommended by: Jackie Vullinghs
Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake
Recommended by: Susan J. Fowler
Recommended by: Guy Kawasaki, Zoë Foster Blake
Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake
A woman revisits the affair her English teacher began with her when she was fifteen.
Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake
Recommended by: Bill Gates
Recommended by: Melinda Gates, Reese Witherspoon
Comic stories: pirates raise a stowaway, a wolf-raised woman, an aging superhero.
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
A novel of an amnesiac astronaut sent to stop a microbe that is dimming the sun.
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Austen Allred, Brian Armstrong and 4 others
“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Thomas Gayner
Recommended by: Richard Branson
A novel setting Anna's ruinous affair against Levin's search for how to live.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Austen Allred, Laura R Walker and 3 others
Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg
Recommended by: Tim Ferriss
Two girls in a poor 1950s Naples neighbourhood form a lifelong, rivalrous friendship.
Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake
At the century's end, a mixed-race couple, college sweethearts, plan their wedding.
Recommended by: Radhika Jones
Retirees join Earth's colonial army in an interstellar war against advanced species.
Recommended by: Marc Andreessen
In 2380, a wormhole-linked commonwealth of 600 worlds sees a distant star vanish.
Recommended by: Marc Andreessen
An epic poem retelling Genesis: Satan's revolt and the fall of Adam and Eve.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
The murder of a Japanese family in Los Angeles on the brink of World War II.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Travellers from 800 years ahead come through a gate to take an alien home.
Recommended by: Marc Andreessen
A cartoonist's graphic memoir of two months working in North Korea's capital.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
A poet cured of Alzheimer's wakes in 2025 San Diego to a world of smart lenses.
Recommended by: Marc Andreessen
A tech entrepreneur is caught in a global cybercrime war sparked by his online game.
Recommended by: Patrick Collison
Ancient machines built to suppress intelligent life awaken after a fatal discovery.
Recommended by: Marc Andreessen
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Ran Segall
A black babysitter is wrongly accused of kidnapping the white child in her care.
Recommended by: Melinda Gates, Zoë Foster Blake
Two Jewish cousins, a refugee from Nazi Prague and a Brooklyn writer, make comics.
Recommended by: Ev Williams, Fred Wilson
Recommended by: Ricardo Semler
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Recommended by: Caterina Fake
The Greek epic of Odysseus's ten-year journey home from Troy to Ithaca.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison, Ryan Holiday and 3 others
The complete works, gathered in one book.
Recommended by: Ricardo Semler, Stewart Brand
Recommended by: Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Matt Mullenweg
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