# 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 Koakowski](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, ](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) * [Gdel, 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/)

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