📖 Founders’ Favourite Books in 2021
Happy Friday and last day of 2021!
After a short Christmas break, we are back today with a special edition compiling the top 50 books recommended by the great founders in this year’s Founders Feature editions. Need a new book to start 2022 the right way? Look no further 👇👇👇
Wishing everyone a happy new year! 🎉
🧐 Non-Fiction
The pleasure of finding things out - Richard Feynman
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
👆 recommended by 2 foundersRadical Candor - Kim Scott
How to think like a Roman Emperor - Donald Robertson
To Have or to Be? - Erich Fromm
Untamed - Glennon Doyle
Maybe you should talk to someone - Lori Gottlieb
The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
👆 recommended by 4 foundersBrave, Not Perfect - Reshna Saujani
Everything Is Figureoutable - Marie Forleo
Designing Your Life - Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
Personality Plus - Florence Littauer
A Plea for the Animals - Matthieu Ricard
Extreme Economies - Richard Davies
No Such Thing as a Free Gift - Linsey McGoey
Bullshit jobs - David Graeber
The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
Essentialism - Greg McKeown
Screw it, Let's do it - Richard Branson
👆 recommended by 2 foundersThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni
The Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Taleb
Sapiens, A brief history of humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
👆 recommended by 2 foundersDeep Work - Cal Newport
Testing Business Ideas - David Bland
Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Chouinar
Zero to One - Peter Thiel
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Originals - Adam Grant
Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
The Defining Decade - Meg Jay
Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss
The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
On Trails: An Exploration - Robert Moor
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning - Martin Rees
The Inevitable - Kevin Kelly
Principles - Ray Dalio
🤩 Fiction
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins