I’m trying to be helpful and listing some good Business Biography & Company History books (plus some fiction you can’t put down) recommended by others, sort them into categories and link to them. 🙂
Inspired by Packy McCormick’s tweet. Call for book recs in two categories:
1. Business Biography/Company History
2. Fiction You Can’t Put Down
Business Biography/Company History
Biographies / Autobiographies
- I Love Capitalism! by Ken Langone
- Who is Michael Ovitz by Michael Ovitz
- The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
- Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
- What it Takes by Stephen A. Schwarzman
- A Man for All Markets by Ed Thorp
- Made in America by Sam Walton
- A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
- Boyd by Robert Coram
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
- Trailblazer by Marc Benioff
- Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
- Call Me Ted by Ted Turner and Bill Burke
- Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna
- The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
Business / Company History
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin
- Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America Hardcover by Christopher Leonard
- Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish
- How the Music Got Free by Stephen Witt
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike
- Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story by David Einhorn
- Cargill: Trading the World’s Grain Hardcover by Wayne G. Broehl Jr
- The Everything Store by Brad Stone
- Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz
- Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s Kings of Beer by William Knoedelseder
- Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
- Zucked by Roger McNamee
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs by Jon Gertner
- That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph
- Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
- American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
- No Filter by Sarah Frier
- Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
- The AI Economy by Roger Bootle
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
- Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle by Matthew Symonds and Larry Ellison
Fiction You Can’t Put Down
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Hil by Nicola Griffith
- DAEMON by Daniel Suarez
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Exhalation: Stories Hardcover by Ted Chiang
- Stories of Your Life and Others Paperback by Ted Chiang
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
- Replay by Ken Grimwood
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- A Burning by Megha Majumdar
- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
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