Hello, Startup Reading List
2. 
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by:
Peter Thiel
4.15 avg rating — 381,786 ratings 3. 
Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million
by:
Cliff Lerner
4.16 avg rating — 923 ratings 4. 
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
by:
Gleb Tsipursky
4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings 
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
by:
Ben Horowitz
4.21 avg rating — 105,275 ratings 7. 
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by:
Paul Graham
4.05 avg rating — 9,490 ratings 
10. 
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by:
Steve Krug
4.24 avg rating — 30,312 ratings 
13. 
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
by:
William Zinsser
4.24 avg rating — 30,212 ratings 13. 
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
by:
Steve Blank
3.95 avg rating — 16,651 ratings 15. 
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
by:
Harold Abelson
4.47 avg rating — 4,821 ratings 16. 
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business 4.04 avg rating — 58,903 ratings
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
by:
Steve McConnell
4.30 avg rating — 9,436 ratings 
23. 
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
by:
Robert C. Martin
4.36 avg rating — 22,976 ratings 24. 
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers 4.02 avg rating — 30,706 ratings
26. 
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by:
Daniel H. Pink
3.95 avg rating — 123,671 ratings 27. 
The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
by:
Reid Hoffman
3.82 avg rating — 10,477 ratings 
30. 
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
by:
Dave Thomas
4.33 avg rating — 23,515 ratings 
33. 
Hello Startup. A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams
by:
Yevgeniy Brikman
4.49 avg rating — 389 ratings 33. 
The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
by:
The Group of 33
3.83 avg rating — 3,152 ratings 
33. 
Valley Speak: Deciphering the Jargon of Silicon Valley
by:
Rochelle Kopp
3.52 avg rating — 23 ratings 33. 
Don't Hire a Software Developer Until You Read this Book: The software survival guide for tech startups & entrepreneurs
by:
K.N. Kukoyi
4.12 avg rating — 77 ratings 
33. 
A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success and Reckoning
by:
Stephan Paternot
3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings 
33. 
Augmented Mind: AI, Superhumans and the Next Economic Revolution
by:
Alex Bates
3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings 33. 
Blow It Up: 21 Ways Your Startup Can Shake Up An Industry And Change The World
by:
David Lowe
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 33. 
CLARITY – The Secret to Success: Designing the Foundation of a Profitable Management System
by:
Sean Shakeri
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 33. 
Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy
by:
Cindy Alvarez
4.18 avg rating — 1,253 ratings 
33. 
Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers
by:
Mike James Ross
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings 48. 
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
by:
Steven Johnson
3.99 avg rating — 15,388 ratings 48. 
Unleash the POWER of Wordpress: The Smart Guide to WordPress for Beginners 4.57 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
by:
Austin Kleon
3.96 avg rating — 324,506 ratings 
55. 
The Guide To Minimum Viable Products: A Master Collection of Frameworks, Expert Opinions, and Examples
by:
Chris Bank
3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings 56. 
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement
by:
Eric Redmond
4.01 avg rating — 731 ratings 57. 
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
by:
Scott Berkun
3.81 avg rating — 2,701 ratings 58. 
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
by:
Jason Fried
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,711 ratings 
60. 
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2)
by:
Jim Collins
4.06 avg rating — 82,780 ratings 61. 
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
by:
Tony Hsieh
4.04 avg rating — 76,146 ratings 
63. 
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by:
Roger Fisher
3.94 avg rating — 84,170 ratings 
66. 
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
by:
Cal Newport
4.07 avg rating — 48,923 ratings 67. 
NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence 4.12 avg rating — 1,096 ratings
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Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)
by:
Kent Beck
4.12 avg rating — 4,051 ratings 72. 
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
by:
Peter Seibel
3.95 avg rating — 5,346 ratings 73. 
Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban
by:
Henrik Kniberg
4.20 avg rating — 1,005 ratings 74. 
Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions 4.33 avg rating — 6,875 ratings
75. 
Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
by:
Andy Oram
3.50 avg rating — 127 ratings 76. 
Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
by:
Andy Oram
3.76 avg rating — 1,495 ratings 77. 
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Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
by:
Mary Poppendieck
4.20 avg rating — 865 ratings 
80. 
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
by:
Martin Fowler
4.24 avg rating — 8,765 ratings 81. 
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
by:
Alan Cooper
3.94 avg rating — 2,938 ratings 82. 
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
by:
Jim Collins
4.12 avg rating — 277,933 ratings 83. 
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by:
Chip Heath
3.98 avg rating — 97,584 ratings 84. 
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business 3.90 avg rating — 3,700 ratings
87. 
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages
by:
Bruce A. Tate
3.96 avg rating — 1,683 ratings 
89. 
Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job
by:
John Mongan
3.96 avg rating — 1,186 ratings 90. 
The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
by:
Guy Kawasaki
3.90 avg rating — 29,087 ratings