Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

Finance people aren't as smart as they tell you they are.

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

You could get 100% of the core principles of investing and business from these Taleb books.

How to Lie with Statistics

Business typically comes down to numbers, so you should be versed in how they're used or often misused.

Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion

Behind most areas of business is persuasion. Sales, marketing, recruiting, etc. Charlie Munger loves this book.

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Common sense investing principles

Principles: Life and Work

The second greatest hedge fund ever, as told by the founder.

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Book 1 for anyone looking to accomplish anything in any field.

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Book 2 on being hyper productive while working less.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

Commonly referenced business book.

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Modern startup principles.

High Output Management

Management principles from Intel's founder.

Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

Product development for technology.

Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry

The founder of SaaS tells his story.

The Design of Everyday Things

Design is an overlooked and essential piece of business success. Norman was an early engineer at the greatest product design company, Apple.

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

Contrarian principles for building an enduring company.

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

One of the greatest venture capitalists tells how to functionally build an amazing company.

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

An interesting book on how to grow quickly from the LinkedIn founder, member of the PayPal mafia, and friend of Jeffrey Epstein.

Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

The API-driven business by the founder of one of the most successful API companies.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Startup tales from the least cool investor ever.

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

The first giant tech founder.

Return to the Little Kingdom: How Apple and Steve Jobs Changed the World

Apple's tale told by one of the greatest venture capitalists.

Steve Jobs

One of the greats.

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

Great tale of Google.

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

One of the greatest American startups.

Hatching Twitter

Twitter startup story.

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

Amazon's tale continued.

Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

The ways in which even the best ideas can be destroyed by unethical behavior and eager investors.

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

Uber's startup tale.

Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century

The story of the greatest living entrepreneur.

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

The greatest American businessman.

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

Tales of the greatest American financier.

Duveen: A Life in Art

Tales of the greatest art dealer.

The House of Getty

Tales of one of the greatest oilmen.

Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty

The story of the greatest modern American business (not startup).

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

A Warren Buffett biography.

Who is Michael Ovitz?

Best tale of Hollywood through one of the greatest agents.

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

How the government (caused?) worsened the great depression and human suffering.

Liar's Poker

The book that put Michael Lewis on the map. His wild tale of Wall Street greed. Made me want to go into finance.

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Great tale of leveraged buyouts, 80s/90s finance.

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Tale of math brilliance making finance folly.

The Housing Boom and Bust

How and why the housing market boomed and ultimately busted.

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

The 2008 collapse told from the inside.

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

The greatest hedge fund ever.

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

The best book on how Wall Street trading functions today.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Applying business and finance lessons to sport.

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

A complete history of OIL.

False Alarm

Cutting through climate alarmism.

Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less

Fossil fuel facts.

What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation

An ellucidating alternative to our current political system.

The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America

How the shale revolution changed the energy (and economic) map for America.

Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World

Contrarian foreign policy.

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

Contrarian foreign policy, part 2.

Why America Is Not a New Rome

Fact based arguments for American greatness. The rational counter to media and political assumptions of American decline. Bill Gates loves Smil.

Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love

The how and why of American lead anti-American foreign policy.

The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate

Hint: inequality is actually 1/4th what most claim, according to US Government data.

We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative

Cutting through the emotions around immigration.

Winter is Coming

Chess Grandmaster further exposes Russia's rotten core.

The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

The best foreign policy book on China by Australia's former Prime Minister and China scholar.

Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

The best book on China by an former Secretary of the Treasury tasked with 'Dealing' with China.

The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

Great book on Chinese foreign policy aims.