1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

  2. The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon B. Johnson by Robert Caro

  3. The Outsiders by Will Thorndike

  4. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisom of Charles T. Munger by Peter Kaufman

  5. Influence by Robert Cialdini

  6. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

  7. Master of the Senate by Robert Caro

  8. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

  9. Leadership in Turbulent Times by Dooris Kearns Goodwin

  10. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

  11. The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb

  12. The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

  13. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

  14. When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein

  15. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

  16. Men to Match my Mountains by Irving Stone

  17. Good to Great by Jim Collins

  18. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

  19. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs

  20. Cable Cowboy by Mark Robichaux

  21. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

  22. Team of Rivals by Dooris Kearns Goodwin

  23. The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova

  24. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

  25. Snowball by Alice Schroeder

  26. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin

  27. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan

  28. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis

  29. Built to Last by Jim Collins

  30. A Man for All Markets by Edward O. Thorp

  31. The River of Doubt by Candice Millard

  32. The Second Mountain by David Brooks

  33. Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon by Julie MacIntosh

  34. The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business by Wright Thompson

  35. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein

  36. The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son by John D. Rockefeller

  37. Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chounaird

  38. Shoedog by Phil Knight

  39. Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America by Les Strandiford

  40. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou