Mind Expanding Books

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Mind Expanding Books
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Books
- Startups and Business
- Philosophy And Psychology
- Autobiographies and Biographies
- History
- Science and Medicine
- Logic and Problem Solving
- Politics
- Economics
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Race
- Education
- Writing
- Theater and Film
- Shakespeare
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Books

Startups and Business

Name	Author	Goodreads Rating	Year Published
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike	Phil Knight	4.46	2016
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company	Robert Iger, Joel Lovell	4.44	2019
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup	John Carreyrou	4.4	2018
The Compound Effect	Darren Hardy	4.40	2010
Never Split the Difference	Chris Voss	4.39	2016
Failing to Succeed: The Story of India's First E-Commerce Company	K. Vaitheeswaran	4.39	2017
High Output Management	Andy Grove	4.38	1995
Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success	Napoleon Hill	4.38	2011
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!	M.J. DeMarco	4.28	2011
How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success	Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer	4.26	2007
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine	Michael Lewis	4.26	2015
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives	Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler	4.25	2020
The Middle Finger Project	Ash Ambirge	4.22	2020
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration	Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace	4.21	2014
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership	Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh	4.21	2009
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers	Ben Horowitz	4.20	2014
Think and Grow Rich	Napoleon Hill	4.17	1937
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order	Kai-Fu Lee	4.16	2018
Nail it then Scale it: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough	Nathan Furr	4.13	2011
Outliers: Story of Success	Malcolm Gladwell	4.11	2008
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable	Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale	4.09	2005
Principles: Life and Work	Ray Dalio	4.07	2017
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action	Simon Sinek	4.07	2009
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children	John Wood	4.07	2006
Hackers and Painters	Paul Graham	4.06	2004
How Google Works	Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg	4.06	2014
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High	Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler	4.05	2002
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't	Jim Collins	4.05	2001
The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses	Eric Ries	4.04	2011
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal	Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz	4.03	2005
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right	Atul Gawande	4.03	2009
Where Good Ideas Come From	Steven Johnson	4.03	2010
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose	Tony Hsieh	4.01	2010
The Innovator's Dilemma	clayton m. christensen	4.00	1997
Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change	Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson	3.98	2007
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It	Michael E. Gerber	3.98	1995
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity	David Allen	3.98	2001
Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way	Richard Branson	3.97	1998
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance	Steven D. Litt	3.96	2009
The Ten Faces of Innovation	Tom Kelley	3.96	2005
Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't	Robert T. Kiyosaki	3.95	1997
Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days	Jessica Livingston	3.94	2007
The Paypal Wars	Eric M. Jackson	3.94	2010
Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead	Sheryl Sandberg	3.94	2013
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever	David Heinemeier Hansson	3.93	2010
The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding	Laura Ries and Al Ries	3.93	1998
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything	Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner	3.93	2006
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference	Malcolm Gladwell	3.92	2002
The Four Steps to the Epiphany	Steve Blank	3.92	2005
The Curse of the Mogul	Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave	3.91	2009
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants	Malcolm Gladwell	3.90	2013
Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto	Adam Werbach	3.89	2009
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable	Nassim Nicholas Taleb	3.88	2007
Contagious: Why Things Catch On	Jonah Berger	3.88	2013
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change	Louis V Gerstner, Jr	3.88	2003
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable	Seth Godin	3.87	2010
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future	Chris Guillebeau	3.85	2012
Too Big to Fail	Andrew Ross Sorkin	3.85	2011
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less	Barry Shwartz	3.84	2005
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything	Guy Kawasaki	3.82	2004
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business	Jeff Howe	3.82	2008
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age	Clay Shirky	3.82	2010
Data Driven	D.J. Patil	3.80	2015
Zero to One	Peter Thiel, Blake Masters	3.75	2014
One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com	Richard Brandt	3.75	2011
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think	Kenneth Cukier	3.70	2013
The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich	Timothy Ferriss	3.61	2012
The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal	Ben Mezrich	3.50	2009

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