a16z's 16 (x4) Books We Read Winter 2018
1. 
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life 4.47 avg rating — 36,964 ratings
2. 
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
by:
Gordon Neufeld
4.16 avg rating — 10,829 ratings 3. 
Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World 4.13 avg rating — 917 ratings
4. 
China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle
by:
Dinny McMahon
4.13 avg rating — 1,165 ratings 5. 
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier 3.92 avg rating — 6,284 ratings
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
by:
David Quammen
3.97 avg rating — 2,669 ratings 15. 
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
by:
Eric A. Posner
3.96 avg rating — 1,466 ratings 16. 
The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
by:
Ichiro Kishimi
3.93 avg rating — 120,511 ratings 
18. 
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
by:
Brian McCullough
4.27 avg rating — 2,058 ratings 19. 
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
by:
Katie Hafner
3.94 avg rating — 4,853 ratings 
21. 
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
by:
Ken Kocienda
4.05 avg rating — 5,082 ratings 
23. 
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
by:
Nick Bilton
4.41 avg rating — 50,875 ratings 24. 
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People
by:
Elad Gil
4.07 avg rating — 2,734 ratings 
26. 
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
by:
Steven Johnson
3.56 avg rating — 1,986 ratings 
30. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,370 ratings 31. 
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.23 avg rating — 53,286 ratings 32. 
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
by:
David E. Sanger
4.25 avg rating — 3,384 ratings 33. 
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
by:
Scott Kelly
4.21 avg rating — 22,454 ratings 
36. 
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
by:
Annie Duke
3.82 avg rating — 21,780 ratings 37. 
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
by:
Steven Kotler
3.92 avg rating — 5,435 ratings 38. 
Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
by:
David R. Hawkins
4.15 avg rating — 13,230 ratings 
40. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,287 ratings 41. 
The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks 3.69 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
42. 
The Big Break: The Greatest American WWII POW Escape Story Never Told 3.65 avg rating — 110 ratings
43. 
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by:
Priya Parker
3.96 avg rating — 25,933 ratings 
46. 
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by:
Tim Wu
3.89 avg rating — 7,934 ratings 47. 
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by:
Charles Duhigg
4.13 avg rating — 549,106 ratings 
53. 
Planning a Computer System: Project Stretch
by:
Werner Buchholz
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics 4.26 avg rating — 10,889 ratings
59. 
Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos 4.41 avg rating — 758 ratings
60. 
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
by:
Alan Rusbridger
4.23 avg rating — 730 ratings