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# Non-tech Books For Professional Growth

A list of non-technical books crowdsourced by the Hacker News community.



This book list started as a question on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415621) but the suggestions were too many to keep track off.



## Autobiographies - Biographies

* [Elon Musk: Inventing the Future - Ashlee Vance](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22543496-elon-musk)

* [iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing by Steve Wozniak.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWoz)

* [Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture - David Kushner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom)

* [Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(book))

* [The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_Franklin)



## Business

* [Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies - Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built_to_Last:_Successful_Habits_of_Visionary_Companies)

* [Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077903-creativity-inc)

* [Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options - Nassim Nicholas Taleb](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204689.Dynamic_Hedging)

* [Everything I Know - Paul Jarvis](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19107336-everything-i-know)

* [Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win - Jocko Willink, Leif Babin](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848190-extreme-ownership)

* [Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days - Jessica Livingston](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work)

* [FYI: For Your Improvement, A Guide for Development and Coaching](https://books.google.gr/books/about/FYI.html)

* [Getting Things Done - David Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done)

* [Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In - Roger Fisher, William L. Ury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_Yes)

* [Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal - Nick Bilton](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18656827-hatching-twitter)

* [How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life - Scott Adams](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17859574-how-to-fail-at-almost-everything-and-still-win-big)

* [How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business - Douglas W. Hubbard](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444653.How_to_Measure_Anything)

* [Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony - Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008101.Made_in_Japan)

* [Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - Chip Heath, Dan Heath](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69242.Made_to_Stick)

* [Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It - Chris Voss, Tahl Raz](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26156469-never-split-the-difference)

* [Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal - Oren Klaff](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10321016-pitch-anything)

* [Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable - Seth Godin](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/641604.Purple_Cow)

* [Rework - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework)

* [Slide: ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations - Nancy Duarte](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3427627-slide)

* [Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4485966-talent-is-overrated)

* [Team of Teams: The Power of Small Groups in a Fragmented World - Stanley McChrystal, Chris Fussell](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22529127-team-of-teams)

* [Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well - Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114120-thanks-for-the-feedback)

* [The 4-Hour Workweek - Timothy Ferriss](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek)

* [The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk - Al Ries, Jack Trout](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33449.The_22_Immutable_Laws_of_Marketing)

* [The Daily Entrepreneur: 33 Success Habits for Small Business Owners, Freelancers and Aspiring 9-to-5 Escape Artists - S.J. Scott, Rebecca Livermore](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23462396-the-daily-entrepreneur)

* [The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done - Peter F. Drucker](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48019.The_Effective_Executive)

* [The Five Dysfunctions of a Team](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Dysfunctions_of_a_Team)

* [The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things)

* [The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail - Clayton Christensen.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma)

* [The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution - Walter Isaacson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovators:_How_a_Group_of_Inventors,_Hackers,_Geniuses,_and_Geeks_Created_the_Digital_Revolution)

* [The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Investor)

* [The Lean startup - Eric Ries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_startup)

* [The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth InTough Economic Times - Jay Abraham](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6515635-the-sticking-point-solution)

* [The Way to Wealth - Benjamin Franklin](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/_files/resources/texts/1758%20Franklin%20Wealth.pdf)

* [Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - Seth Godin](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828382-tribes)

* [Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits - Robert C. Townsend, Warren G. Bennis](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546936.Up_the_Organization)

* [What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful - Marshall Goldsmith , Mark Reiter](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84525.What_Got_You_Here_Won_t_Get_You_There)

* [Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel, Blake Masters](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one)



## Design

* [Designed for Use - Lukas Mathis](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11890985-designed-for-use)

* [Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Steve Krug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Make_Me_Think)

* [The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things)



## Economics

* [A Short History of Financial Euphoria - John Kenneth Galbraith](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270746.A_Short_History_of_Financial_Euphoria)

* [Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202.Freakonomics)

* [Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2716864-rationality-in-economics)

* [The State - Anthony de Jasay](http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Jasay/jsyStt.html)

* [The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70420.The_Undercover_Economist)



## Fiction

* [Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality](http://hpmor.com)

* [Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four)

* [The Color of Magic (Discworld #1) - Terry Pratchett](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34497.The_Color_of_Magic)

* [The Martian by Andy Weir](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel))



## History

* [Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit - Charlie A. Beckwith, Donald Knox](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/617661.Delta_Force)

* [Devil Take the Hindmost: a History of Financial Speculation - Edward Chancellor](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91360.Devil_Take_the_Hindmost)

* [Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds)

* [Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel)

* [Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution)

* [Legionnaire: Five Years in the French Foreign Legion - Simon Murray](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/651859.Legionnaire)

* [Strange Defeat - Marc Bloch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Defeat)

* [The Old Regime and the Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Regime_and_the_Revolution)

* [The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Robert A. Caro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Broker)

* [War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace)



## Management

* [Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects_and_Teams)

* [Peter F. Drucker Books](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker)

* [The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel))



## Other

* [Common Sense (pamphlet)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet))

* [Game Over: From Pick-Up Artist to Social Heartist - John Cooper](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28482276-game-over)

* [Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor - Paul Farmer](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10232.Pathologies_of_Power)

* [The Bible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible)

* [The Complete Yes Minister - Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/526170.The_Complete_Yes_Minister)

* [The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces)



## Philosophy

* [A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_of_Human_Nature)

* [Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged)

* [Meditations - Marcus Aurelius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations)

* [Metaphysical Horror - Leszek Kołakowski](https://books.google.gr/books/about/Metaphysical_Horror.html)

* [Moral letters to Lucilius - Seneca](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius)

* [On Liberty - John Stuart Mill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Liberty)

* [The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark - Mikhail Naimy, ميخائيل نعيمة](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1487022.The_Book_of_Mirdad)

* [The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead)

* [The Law -  Frédéric Bastiat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Law_(book))

* [The Machinery of Freedom - David D. Friedman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machinery_of_Freedom)

* [The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph - Ryan Holiday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obstacle_Is_the_Way)

* [The Revolt of the Masses - José Ortega y Gasset](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolt_of_the_Masses)

* [The Tao of Power: Lao Tzu's Classic Guide to Leadership, Influence, and Excellence - R.L. Wing, Lao Tzu](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/265430.The_Tao_of_Power)

* [Walden - Henry David Thoreau](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16902.Walden)



## Political Theory/Science

* [The Man Versus the State is a political theory book - Herbert Spencer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Versus_the_State)

* [On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth](https://books.google.gr/books/about/On_Power.html)

* Sketched With the Quill - Andrzej Bobkowski



## Productivity

* [Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World](http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/)



## Psychology

* [Ego Is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enemy)

* [Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow)

* [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People)

* [Impro - Keith Johnstone](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306940.Impro)

* [Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28815.Influence)

* [Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalking_with_Einstein)

* [Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book))

* [The Power of Habit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Habit)

* [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None - Friedrich Nietzsche](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra)

* [Thinking, Fast and Slow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow)

* [What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People - Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1173576.What_Every_Body_is_Saying)



## Science

* [An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - Chris Hadfield](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170143-an-astronaut-s-guide-to-life-on-earth)

* [Disturbing the Universe - Freeman Dyson](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134225.Disturbing_the_Universe)

* [Geometry: Seeing, Doing, Understanding - Harold R. Jacobs](https://books.google.gr/books/about/Geometry.html)

* [Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach)

* [Cosmos: Carl Sagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_(Carl_Sagan_book))

* [The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/461104.The_Ascent_of_Man)

* [The key to the universe - Nigel calder](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00107517708231488)

* [The Logic of Scientific Discovery - Karl Popper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Scientific_Discovery)



## Science Fiction

* [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy)



## Self-Help

* [Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School - John Medina](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2251306.Brain_Rules)

* [Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming - Peter Seibel](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6713575-coders-at-work)

* [8 to Be Great: The 8-Traits That Lead to Great Success - Richard St. John](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2283805.8_to_Be_Great)

* [How to Read a Book - Mortimer Adler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book)

* [The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People)

* [The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto)

* [The Speed Reading Book - Tony Buzan](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/791505.The_Speed_Reading_Book)



## Soft Skills

* [Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucial_Conversations:_Tools_for_Talking_When_Stakes_Are_High)



## Sports

* [Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training - Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2098799.Starting_Strength)



## Travel

* [Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel - Rolf Potts](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding)



## Other lists mentioned

* [Blockshelf](http://www.blockshelf.com/)

* [HackerNews Books](http://hackernewsbooks.com/)

* [Top 30 books ranked by total number of links to Amazon in Hacker News comments](http://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/)