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Top 100 non-fiction books
These are the top 100 most recommended non-fiction books from the world's most successful and interesting people.
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
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Principles
Ray Dalio
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Zero to One
Peter Thiel
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
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Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
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Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
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The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen
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Atomic Habits
James Clear
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
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High Output Management
Andrew Grove
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Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
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How To Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
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Good to Great
Jim Collins
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Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
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The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Richard P. Feynman
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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
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The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger
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Range
David Epstein
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The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
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Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
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Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
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The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
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Essentialism
Greg McKeown
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The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
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The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant
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Loonshots
Safi Bahcall
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How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
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Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
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12 Rules for Life
Jordan Peterson
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When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
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The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
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The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
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Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
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Deep Work
Cal Newport
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu
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Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
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The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi
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Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
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The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh
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Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore
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Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink
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High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
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Made to Stick
Chip & Dan Heath
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The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
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The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
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Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
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Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
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The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
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Measure What Matters
John Doerr
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Think and Grow Rich
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Only the Paranoid Survive
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Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
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Blitzscaling
Reid Hoffman
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Seeking Wisdom
Peter Bevelin
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Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
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How Not to Die
Dr. Michael Greger
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Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
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Michael E. Gerber
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Hans Rosling
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James Carse
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Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Todd Gilbert
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Walter Isaacson
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The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
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Start with Why
Simon Sinek
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The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
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Steven Pinker
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Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
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Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
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Originals
Adam Grant
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Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares
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Play Nice But Win
Michael Dell
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The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley
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The Sovereign Individual
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Susan Cain
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Ron Chernow
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Eckhart Tolle
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Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
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The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
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The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
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Nir Eyal & Ryan Hoover
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Rework
David Heinemeier Hansson
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Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
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The Elements of Style
William Strunk & E.B. White
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On the Shortness of Life
Lucius Seneca
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Radical Candor
Kim Scott
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