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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

Principles of Corporate Finance
Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers, Franklin Allen

Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives
John C. Hull

Financial Accounting and Reporting
Barry Elliott, Jamie Elliott

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear

The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
Robin Sharma

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Daniel Coyle

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz

Build a Large Language Model from Scratch
Sebastian Raschka

The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery
Andrew Hunt, David Thomas

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest

Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People
Aditya Bhargava

Understanding Deep Learning
Simon J.D. Prince

Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective
Kevin P. Murphy

The Algorithm Design Manual
Steven S. Skiena

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin

High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove

Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
Oliver Burkeman

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Tony Hsieh

High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson

The Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
Scott Kupor

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes

Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith

Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
Vernon, Patrick

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer

Organizational Behavior
David A. Buchanan, Andrzej Huczynski

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Laszlo Bock

ISE Strategic Management: Concepts
Frank Rothaermel

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston

The Lean Startup
Eric Ries

Wooden on Leadership
John Wooden, Steve Jamison

Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
Ken Segall

The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh

Calculus
James Stewart

Calculus: Early Transcendentals
Howard Anton, Irl Bivens, Stephen Davis

Calculus
Michael Spivak

Calculus Made Easy
Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner

Introduction to Linear Algebra
Gilbert Strang

Linear Algebra and Its Applications
David C. Lay

Linear Algebra Done Right
Sheldon Axler

Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction
David Poole

The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham

A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton Malkiel

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John C. Bogle

Learning Deep Learning
Magnus Ekman

Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio

The McKinsey Way
Ethan M. Rasiel

Playing to Win
A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes, Janmejaya Sinha

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies
McKinsey & Company, Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart

An Introduction to Statistical Learning
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani

Applied Predictive Modeling
Max Kuhn, Kjell Johnson

The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
Andriy Burkov

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow
Aurélien Géron

Building LLMs for Production: Enhancing LLM Abilities and Reliability with Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and RAG
Louis-François Bouchard, Louie Peters

Spark – The Definitive Guide: Big data processing made simple
Bill Chambers, Matei Zaharia

Data Pipelines Pocket Reference
James Densmore

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
E. T. Jaynes

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

A First Course in Probability
Sheldon Ross

Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan
Richard McElreath

Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
Robert V. Hogg, Joseph W. McKean, Allen T. Craig

All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference
Larry Wasserman

All You Need to Know About the Music Business
Donald S. Passman

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert Sapolsky

Learning and Behavior
Paul Chance

Behavior Modification: What It Is and How To Do It
Garry Martin, Joseph Pear

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt

100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
Alex Hormozi

$100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff
Alex Hormozi

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath, Dan Heath

The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd
Allan Dib

The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
JL Collins

Toward Rational Exuberance: the Evolution of the Modern Stock Market
B. Mark Smith

The Teenage Investor: How to Start Early, Invest Often & Build Wealth
Tim Olsen

How to Raise a Venture Capital Fund
Winter Mead

Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance
Paul Wilmott

The Mathematics of Financial Derivatives: A Student Introduction
Paul Wilmott, Sam Howison, Jeff Dewynne

Trades, Quotes and Prices: Financial Markets Under the Microscope
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Marc Potters

Stochastic Calculus for Finance I: The Binomial Asset Pricing Model
Steven Shreve

Option Volatility and Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques
Sheldon Natenberg

Security Analysis: Principles and Techniques
Benjamin Graham, David Dodd

The Network State
Balaji Srinivasan

Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Chris Dixon

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen

Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market: A Formula for Winning Investments
Joel Greenblatt

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer

Algorithms
Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne

Advanced Data Structures
Peter Brass

Founding Sales: The Early-Stage Go-To-Market Handbook
Pete Kazanjy

How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie