– On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King
– On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, William Zinsser
– The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, Randy Pausch
– Rocket Boys, Homer Hickam
– Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
– Different Seasons, Stephen King
– Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard Feynman
– Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy
– In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, Steven Levy
– The Freedom Writers Diary, Erin Gruwell
– A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton G. Malkiel
– Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, Paul Graham
– Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
– Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt
– The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick
– Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days, Jessica Livingston
– The Innovators, Walter Isaacson
– Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance
– Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight
– The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau
– The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World, Brad Stone
– Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Jonah Berger
– The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing, John C. Bogle & Co.
– Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future, John MacCormick