Great Business Books
- Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
- Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
- Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett, edited by Lawrence A. Cunningham
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Venture Deals by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
- When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
- Business Adventures by John Brooks
- Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace
- E Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
- Earning It by Joann Lublin
- First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Never Split the Difference by Christopher Voss and Tahl Raz
- Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- The Smartest Guys in the Room by Peter Elkind & Bethany McLean
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Titan by Ron Chernow
- Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
- Wild Ride by Adam Lashinsky
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez
Biographies
- Elon Musk by Ashley Vance
- Jeff Bezos and The Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
- King of Capital by David Carey & John E. Morris
- Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
Great Non-Business Books
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
- Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono
- Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
- Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
- Great Thinkers by The School of Life
- Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
Do you have books that we should add to our list? Send us an email to marcom@eoboston.org.