I loved these books. Maybe you will too!

 

Start-Ups and Entrepreneurship

 

 
Good for getting "centered" on thinking through your career arc. Helpful in determining your assets, what value you bring to the table. 
Chock full of practical tools for building and maintaining networks.
 
 
More of a reference book -- no need to read straight through from beginning to end. 
Incredibly powerful, simple and practical tools for thinking through Product-Market-Fit (Customer Development)
 
 
A wonderful complement to StartUp Owner's Manual and Lean StartUp ... focused on the core business model.
Fantabulous tool for sketching out your own Business Model Canvas. 
Feel free to try this version of the Business Model Canvas I made in Powerpoint
 
 
Eric Ries is a pupil of Steve Blank (StartUp Owner's Manual). This book by Eric is a common sense approach to building a company with limited resources. Distills the StartUp Owner's Manual philosophies into practical, iterative steps.
Another book chock full of practical tools and resources.
 
 
Rework
By Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
A fun take on what work could be like. 
 
 
A cookbook full of recipes for creating innovative (read: Disruptive) ideas. 
I've read this one at least twice and still use as a reference book.
 
 
Inspiring and provides a sharp focus on how to truly build a differentiated company.
Felt repetitive about half way through.

 

Business

 

  • Multipliers, Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown
  • Good to Great, Jim Collins
  • The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor
  • Execution, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
  • Talent is Overrated, Geoff Colvin
  • The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen
  • The Art of Profitability, Adrian Slywotzky
  • Enough, Bill McKibben
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, C.P.A.
  • Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
  • The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
  • Winning, Jack Welch with Suzy Welch
  • Free Prize Inside! and Purple Cow, Seth Godin
  • E-Myth Revisted, Michael E. Gerber
  • The Science of Fear, Daniel Gardner
  • Crucial Conversations, Kerry Patterson
  • The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
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Bill Gurley Must Reads for every Entrepreneur:

  • Storytelling Animal, Jonathan Gottschalk 
  • Competitive Strategy, Michael Porter
  • Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore
  • Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen
  • Startup, Jerry Kaplan
  • Shoe Dog, Phil Knight

 

Science

 

  • Waking Up, Sam Harris
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
  • The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil
  • Germs, Guns, and Steel, Jared Diamond
  • Collapse, Jared Diamond
  • The World Without Us, Alan Weisman

 

Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories