Best Biz Biography/Company History & Fiction You Can’t Put Down?

Compiling Packy McCormick’s tweet replies

I’m trying to be helpful and listing some good Business Biography & Company History books (plus some fiction you can’t put down) recommended by others, sort them into categories and link to them.

Inspired by Packy McCormick’s tweet. Call for book recs in two categories:

1. Business Biography/Company History i.e. Shoe Dog, Cable Cowboy, Red Notice, The Man Who Solved the Market, etc...
2. Fiction You Can't Put Down i.e. Three-Body Trilogy, any Haruki Murakami, The City We Became

Packy McCormick @packyM

Call for book recs in two categories: 1. Business Biography/Company History i.e. Shoe Dog, Cable Cowboy, Red Notice, The Man Who Solved the Market, etc... 2. Fiction You Can't Put Down i.e. Three Body Trilogy, any Haruki Murakami, The City We Became 🤓

Business Biography/Company History

Biographies / Autobiographies

• I Love Capitalism! by Ken Langone

• Who is Michael Ovitz by Michael Ovitz

• The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger

• Setting the Table by Danny Meyer

• What it Takes by Stephen A. Schwarzman

• A Man for All Markets by Ed Thorp

• Made in America by Sam Walton

• A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston

• Boyd by Robert Coram

• The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

• Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson

• Trailblazer by Marc Benioff

• Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

• Call Me Ted by Ted Turner and Bill Burke

• Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna

• The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen

• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles

Business / Company History

• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin

• Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America Hardcover by Christopher Leonard

• Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish

• How the Music Got Free by Stephen Witt

• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike

• Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story by David Einhorn

• Cargill: Trading the World’s Grain Hardcover by Wayne G. Broehl Jr

• The Everything Store by Brad Stone

• Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz

• Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s Kings of Beer by William Knoedelseder

• Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

• Zucked by Roger McNamee

• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs by Jon Gertner

• That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph

• Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton

• American Kingpin by Nick Bilton

• No Filter by Sarah Frier

• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac

• The AI Economy by Roger Bootle

• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

• Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle by Matthew Symonds and Larry Ellison

Fiction You Can’t Put Down

• Dune by Frank Herbert

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

• The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

• Hil by Nicola Griffith

• DAEMON by Daniel Suarez

• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

• Exhalation: Stories Hardcover by Ted Chiang

• Stories of Your Life and Others Paperback by Ted Chiang

• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

• Red Rising by Pierce Brown

• Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

• Replay by Ken Grimwood

• Circe by Madeline Miller

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

• What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• A Burning by Megha Majumdar

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

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