As I’m graduating soon, I was curious about what others who do for a living would what I will be be doing post-college, working as a venture capitalist, recommended a new graduate read. I wasn’t looking for anything specific; all suggestions were welcome. So I took to twitter to ask for recommendations and here are their answers. Thank you everyone who replied. Incase you just want access to the list, it can be found here.
- Liar’s Poker
- The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King
- Fermat’s Enigma
- Snow Crash
- Ready Player One
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
Bonus: “The top three works of fiction you never got around to reading in HS or college. You’ll have plenty of time for biz books.”
- Not Fade Away
- Built To Last
- Jab Jab Jab Right Hook
- How To Win Friends and Influence People
- Fifth Business
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- The Alchemist
- The Big Short
Bonus: Innovators Dilemma
- Endurance
- The Coldest Winter
- Team of Rivals
- Getting Real
- Zero to One
- Outliers
Bonus: Running Money
- Founders at Work
- When Genius Failed
- Give and Take
- Improv Wisdom
- A Guide to the Good Life
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Bonus: Traction, Art of Profitability, Startups Open Sourced
- Peopleware
- Thinking Fast & Slow
- The World is Flat
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- The Selfish Gene
- Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge
Bonus: On Writing Well
- The Tao of Pooh
- The Sun Also Rises
- Shantaram
- Predictably Irrational
- The Mating Mind
- The Mystery of Capital