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The Best Books: Recommended Reading List
The page is a reading list sharing the best books to read in various categories based on many hours of reading and research. You’ll find more than 100 good books to read, organized by category.
This is a reading list for people who don’t have time for unimportant books — which should be everyone. I only list the best books I've read, excluding the rest, in each category. You can be sure that each will be worth your time.
Start Here: The Best Books of All-Time
Looking for the best books, speeches, talks, and letters of all-time? I've spent the last decade collecting the best writing from history so that you can browse it here.
- 10 Books with the Most Page-for-Page Wisdom
- The Greatest Speeches and Talks of All-Time
- The Greatest Letters of All-Time
The Best Books by Category
These are the best books to read, listed by category.
- Best Books on Creativity
- Best Books on Writing
- Best Business Books
- Best Investing Books
- Best Venture Capital Books
Book Summaries
For the best books that I read, I go through the painstaking effort to put together and publish my personal notes including highlights, excerpts, and takeaways. You can read all of these notes on my book summaries page.
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The page is a reading list sharing the best books to read in various categories based on many hours of reading and research. You’ll find more than 100 good books to read, organized by category. This is a reading list for people who don’t have time for unimportant books — which should be everyone. I only list the best books I've read, excluding the rest, in each category. You can be sure that each will be worth your time.
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Daniel Scrivner is an award-winner designer turned founder and investor. He's led design work at Apple and Square. He is an early investor in Notion, Public.com, and Good Eggs. He's also the founder of Ligature: The Design VC and Outlier Academy. Daniel has interviewed the world’s leading founders and investors including Scott Belsky, Luke Gromen, Kevin Kelly, Gokul Rajaram, and Brian Scudamore.
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Aug 29, 2023
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