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Top books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast

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390 hours of audio 277 episodes analyzed 459 books mentioned
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  1. High Output Management
    Andrew S. Grove · mentioned 2× across 2 episodes
     Cover of High Output Management
  2. The Hard Thing About Hard Things
    Ben Horowitz · mentioned 2× across 2 episodes
     Cover of The Hard Thing About Hard Things
  3. A History of Burning
    Janika Oza · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of A History of Burning
  4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    Mark Twain · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Lewis Carroll · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  6. Am I Overthinking This?: Over-answering Life's Questions in Chart Form
    Michelle Rial · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Am I Overthinking This?: Over-answering Life's Questions in Chart Form
  7. Babel, or the Necessity of Violence
    R.F. Kuang · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Babel, or the Necessity of Violence
  8. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
    Arnold Schwarzenegger · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
  9. Breakneck
    Dan Wang · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Breakneck
  10. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
    Tony Fadell · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
  11. Charts for Babies
    Michelle Riel · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Charts for Babies
  12. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
    Charles Petzold · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
  13. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    Jared Diamond · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
  14. Creativity, Inc.
    Ed Catmull · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Creativity, Inc.
  15. Crossing the Chasm
    Geoffrey A. Moore · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Crossing the Chasm
  16. Epic of Gilgamesh
    Unknown · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Epic of Gilgamesh
  17. Functional Programming in Scala
    Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Functional Programming in Scala
  18. Guns, Germs, and Steel
    Jared Diamond · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Guns, Germs, and Steel
  19. Histories
    Herodotus · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Histories
  20. Homegoing
    Yaa Gyasi · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Homegoing
  21. How Asia Works
    Joe Studwell · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of How Asia Works
  22. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
    Stewart Brand · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
  23. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
    Michael Pollan · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
  24. How to Raise an Adult
    Julie Lythcott-Haims · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of How to Raise an Adult
  25. How to Win Friends and Influence People
    Dale Carnegie · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of How to Win Friends and Influence People
  26. I Want My Hat Back
    Jon Klassen · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of I Want My Hat Back
  27. Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great
    Eric Ries · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great
  28. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
    Robert B. Cialdini · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
  29. Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
    Bill Hayes · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
  30. Into Thin Air
    Jon Krakauer · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Into Thin Air
  31. James
    Percival Everett · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of James
  32. Liar's Poker
    Michael Lewis · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Liar's Poker
  33. Life at the Speed of Play
    Mark Pincus · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Life at the Speed of Play
  34. Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
    Safi Bahcall · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
  35. Made in America
    Sam Walton · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Made in America
  36. Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead
    Brian Halligan · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead
  37. Mrs. Dalloway
    Virginia Woolf · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Mrs. Dalloway
  38. My American Journey
    Colin Powell · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of My American Journey
  39. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
    William Cronon · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
  40. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
    Hayao Miyazaki · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  41. Negotiation Made Simple
    John Lowry · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Negotiation Made Simple
  42. Pachinko
    Min Jin Lee · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Pachinko
  43. Project Hail Mary
    Andy Weir · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Project Hail Mary
  44. Radical Candor
    Kim Scott · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Radical Candor
  45. Remarkably Bright Creatures
    Shelby Van Pelt · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Remarkably Bright Creatures
  46. Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
    Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Henighan, Tom B. Brown, Benjamin Chess, Rewon Child, Scott Gray, Alec Radford, Jeffrey Wu, Dario Amodei · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
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  47. Seeing Like a State
    James C. Scott · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Seeing Like a State
  48. Splintered: The Inside Story of Apple's Relationship with China
    Patrick McGee · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Splintered: The Inside Story of Apple's Relationship with China
  49. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
    Chip Heath and Dan Heath · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
  50. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  51. The Bible
    Various Authors - Compiled by Mark T · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Bible
  52. The Big Orange Splot
    Daniel Manus Pinkwater · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Big Orange Splot
  53. The Book of the New Sun
    Gene Wolfe · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Book of the New Sun
  54. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
    Peter Zeihan · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
  55. The Gruffalo
    Julia Donaldson · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Gruffalo
  56. The Innovator's Dilemma
    Clayton Christensen · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Innovator's Dilemma
  57. The Jordan Rules
    Sam Smith · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Jordan Rules
  58. The Lean Startup
    Eric Ries · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Lean Startup
  59. The Little Prince
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Little Prince
  60. The Lord of the Rings
    J.R.R. Tolkien · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Lord of the Rings
  61. The Old Testament
    Unknown · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Old Testament
  62. The Overstory
    Richard Powers · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Overstory
  63. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
    Ken Liu · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
  64. The Power Broker
    Robert Caro · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Power Broker
  65. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
    Robert Caro · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
  66. The Principles of Scientific Management
    Frederick Winslow Taylor · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Principles of Scientific Management
  67. The Purpose-Driven Church
    Rick Warren · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Purpose-Driven Church
  68. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
    William Egginton · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
  69. The Second World War
    Winston Churchill · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Second World War
  70. The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
    Carl Benedikt Frey · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
  71. The Timeless Way of Building
    Christopher Alexander · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Timeless Way of Building
  72. The Upside of Stress
    Kelly McGonigal · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Upside of Stress
  73. The Wandering Earth
    Cixin Liu · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Wandering Earth
  74. The Writing Life
    Annie Dillard · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of The Writing Life
  75. Thinking in Bets
    Annie Duke · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Thinking in Bets
  76. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
    Donella Meadows · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  77. Three Men in a Boat
    Jerome K. Jerome · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Three Men in a Boat
  78. Tools for Conviviality
    Ivan Illich · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Tools for Conviviality
  79. Treasure Island
    Robert Louis Stevenson · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Treasure Island
  80. Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
    Colin Bryar and Bill Carr · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
  81. You Can Negotiate Anything
    Herb Cohen · mentioned 1× across 1 episode
     Cover of You Can Negotiate Anything

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