4.19 avg rating — 8,046 ratings

""It's a stunning exploration of how humans can more effectively make decisions," says Slack VP Engineering Michael Lopp."

4.25 avg rating — 18,524 ratings

"Slack VP Engineering calls it "a fascinating read about when bridges were still in beta.""

4.27 avg rating — 296,382 ratings

3.64 avg rating — 157 ratings

" "It's just brilliant, structured thinking on how to make strategy decisions," AppNexus Founder and CEO Brian O'Kelley says. "

3.91 avg rating — 232,176 ratings

4.01 avg rating — 266,786 ratings

4.30 avg rating — 21,222 ratings

" "I picked up the book after Grove passed away this year and I found it so succinct, so clear, and so packed with easy-to-understand analogies," says Facebook Design VP Julie Zhuo. "It really gets to the heart of what good management is.""

4.09 avg rating — 174,527 ratings

""So much of being happy and productive is not about what's happening externally, but what's going on in our own heads. I loved this book for so clearly illustrating that," says Facebook VP of Design Julie Zhuo."

4.20 avg rating — 108,770 ratings

4.34 avg rating — 1,248,021 ratings

4.10 avg rating — 266,515 ratings

4.06 avg rating — 554 ratings

""It's a great overview of the history and impact of systemic abuse — especially of women — online," says Project Include Co-founder Bethanye Blount."

4.21 avg rating — 270 ratings

""It's solid, realistic advice from someone who definitely knows what he's talking about," says Koru CEO and Co-founder Kristen Hamilton."

4.05 avg rating — 37,821 ratings

""It's full of great insights and anecdotes that provoke the right questions about what really matters," says Dropbox Director of Product Management Olivia Teich."

4.10 avg rating — 34,715 ratings

""It's one of the better books that talks about EQ in the workplace and gets to the core challenges people have working with one another, especially at growing companies," says Nikhyl Singhal, Chief Product Officer at Credit Karma."

3.79 avg rating — 4,299 ratings

""The book just a great job describing how communities through the world and history were able to be more innovative than others. It contains some big surprises too," says CCKPartners CEO Colleen McCreary."

4.09 avg rating — 3,642 ratings

"Hackbright Academy VP Angie Chang calls this the most useful book she's ever read on winning negotiations in work and life."

3.93 avg rating — 493 ratings

""It's actually written by startup executives, developers and techies — all of them women," says Hackbright Academy VP Angie Chang."

4.22 avg rating — 199,114 ratings

""This is the best book I've read in the last year for entrepreneurship," says Tiny Garage Labs Founder John Ciancutti. "It's about the greatest startup in the world: America. And how a young immigrant with no resources except hard work and intelligence overcame overwhelming adversity to become a critical founder. Hugely inspiring, with many lessons on leadership, persuasion, human politics and management.""

4.14 avg rating — 7,264 ratings

""It's the only guidebook for life that's worked for me consistently over the last 20 years of my career," says Matthew Bellows, CEO of Yesware."

4.32 avg rating — 145,384 ratings

""It's amazing how transparent he is about his life — about times he used crystal meth and when he reached the highest levels of his sport; his emotions along the way," says Segment Co-founder and CEO Peter Reinhardt."

4.39 avg rating — 359,760 ratings

""If you don't row together, you don't get to beat the Nazis at the Olympics," says Makerbot Co-founder Bre Pettis."

3.74 avg rating — 7,189 ratings

""It's not about technology in any specific sense, but what it is as an extension of biological life," says Dropbox and Facebook designer Soleio Cuervo."

4.45 avg rating — 5,589 ratings

""It's a heart-wrenching but eye-opening look at the safe ways America looks back at slavery and its impact on modern capitalism," says former Facebook VP Engineering Cory Ondrejka. "During an election cycle focused on populism and anger, this is a book every American should read.""

3.75 avg rating — 97 ratings

""The author, Josh Tyler, crafts a concise, no-nonsense, intensely focused guide for building the workhouse of Silicon Valley — the high functioning software team," says first Pandora data scientist Gordon Rios"

4.23 avg rating — 21,211 ratings

""I gained so many tips about teaching leadership at all levels of an organization," says Urbansitter CEO Lynn Perkins. "It's a great book for when you're going through growth, and when you have young employees with a ton of potential but lacking in experience.""

4.15 avg rating — 11,645 ratings

""It's a true classic for anyone in marketing. The book's 30+ years old but the guidance is almost completely relevant today — and it's fun to learn these concepts in the context of the history and all those glossy classic ads," says branding expert and Gmail product marketing manager Arielle Jackson."

4.21 avg rating — 6,372 ratings

""It's one of the few organizational theory books written in the last few years that is thorough, though-provoking and not self-promoting," says Elaine Wherry, Co-founder and CXO at Meebo."

4.09 avg rating — 11,784 ratings

""Understand how our brains operate at work throughout the day was really illuminating for me, especially because I manage other humans who have brains," says Jason Stirman, CEO of Lucid and famed ex-Medium and Twitter exec."

3.84 avg rating — 10,059 ratings

""Short, simple, highly effective," says Clover Health Founder and CEO Vivek Garipalli."

4.14 avg rating — 12,277 ratings

""It's funny and useful," says Neil Roseman, former VP Engineering at both Amazon and Zynga. "His gimmick of only using common words is a smart constraint that opens complicated subjects to all.""

4.13 avg rating — 443,602 ratings

""Great background not only on Musk but PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX and how those businesses are actually run," says Slack Engineering Director Julia Grace."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,385 ratings

""If you want to understand what it's like to be an adult woman in America today, you have to read this book," says Asana Product Manager Samantha Goertler."

3.84 avg rating — 1,502 ratings

""It pushed my thinking on why the old model for structuring companies isn't sustainable," says Abl Founder and former Yammer CTO Adam Pisoni."

3.74 avg rating — 2,771 ratings

""If you live in San Francisco or have interest in the city, you have to read this book," says Urbansitter CEO Lynn Perkins. "It's non-fiction that reads like fiction and covers the city's most radical period of change in the 60s and 70s.""

3.06 avg rating — 87 ratings

"Startup growth expert Tamara Steffens calls this book, "a great approach for women to harbor their natural strengths to make big impact.""

4.41 avg rating — 798,704 ratings

""It puts life back into perspective — and that's very important in Silicon Valley," says startup growth expert, Tamara Steffens."

3.72 avg rating — 5,085 ratings

"It traces the history of roleplaying games and the entrepreneurs who created an entire industry round imaginative play," says first Pandora data scientist Gordon Rios."

3.93 avg rating — 35,973 ratings

""After working at many startups and now running my own company, the one difference I have observed between good and great companies (and products) is how oriented the org is toward learning," says designer Josh Brewer. "The more people in an organization learn, the more value they create for the whole company.""

4.13 avg rating — 17,510 ratings

"Dropbox design leader Soleio Cuervo calls it, "the best book on design I've ever read.""

4.15 avg rating — 133,351 ratings

"This book "captures the emotions and new understandings of race told through one family's history," says Colleen McCreary, CEO of consluting firm CCKPartners."

4.30 avg rating — 509,903 ratings

3.66 avg rating — 13,547 ratings

""In a world where there are countless critics sitting in their underwear being ghastly human beings on the internet, Valenti rises above it, names it, and bring all the ugliness into the light," says Makerbot Co-founder Bre Pettis."

3.96 avg rating — 63,352 ratings

3.61 avg rating — 6,521 ratings

""Never in my life have I read a book on grammar and laughed out loud," says media trainer and speaking coach Joe Dolce."

3.92 avg rating — 11,846 ratings

4.28 avg rating — 913,387 ratings

""It's not short and it hurts, but it takes you deep into the lives of characters you'll never forget. Read it with someone else. You'll need to talk about it. A lot," says media trainer and speaking coach Joe Dolce."

4.15 avg rating — 27,662 ratings

""It gives you a sense of the Walmart founder's unceasing quest to learn and improve customer experience," says Segment Co-founder and CEO Peter Reinhardt."

4.45 avg rating — 28,502 ratings

""It's a children's book but it speaks to finding a mission and the fact that we don't always know what that is," says David Loftesness, former Director of Engineering at Twitter. "You just have to keep your heart and eyes open.""

4.16 avg rating — 29,530 ratings

3.98 avg rating — 5,313 ratings

"WeWork Member Engagement VP Erik Martin calls it "a gripping and well-told reminder of how fast habits and technologies change, especially for companies at the top.""

4.18 avg rating — 84,269 ratings

""This book started my obsession with WWI, illustrating how drastically the world went from interrelated monarchies and cavalry charges to chemical warfare between modern nation states," says WeWork Member Engagement VP Erik Martin. "If you want to see what disruption looks like, there's no greater period in human history.""

4.04 avg rating — 4,529 ratings

"It does a great job exploring "the opportunity for personalization in education, medicine and countless other fields — which will hopefully drive countless other opportunities," says investor and former Chegg CBO Anne Dwane."

3.91 avg rating — 3,282 ratings

"An incisive look at how society's gender biases prevent us from achieving equality in the workplace the GDP we would have if equality was the norm, says Hackbright Academy VP Angie Chang."

3.86 avg rating — 36,099 ratings

""It's a great crash course on the many cognitive biases that prevent us from making the best decisions," says UX and customer development expert Cindy Alvarez. "Plenty of examples, citations and tips for avoiding falling into these traps.""

4.30 avg rating — 198,551 ratings

4.01 avg rating — 297,063 ratings

4.03 avg rating — 98,797 ratings

4.21 avg rating — 102,265 ratings

4.14 avg rating — 81,616 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,092,472 ratings

"Koru CEO Kristen Hamilton calls it "stunning and fantastical — a great, creative escape from business reading.""

4.10 avg rating — 655,802 ratings

""I read this for the first time when I was 10 — great parenting at work — but it was almost scarier to reread as an adult," says Project Include Co-Founder Bathanye Blount."

4.13 avg rating — 160,716 ratings

""There's so much in this one about leadership, failures and how winners write history," says Project Include Co-founder Bethanye Blount."

4.01 avg rating — 49,128 ratings

4.04 avg rating — 454,858 ratings

4.20 avg rating — 305,798 ratings

""To this day, I can think of no better book that captures the imagination, wonder and adventure of life that children so intuitively grasp," says Facebook VP of Design Julie Zhuo."