Ben Horowitz's Book Recommendations

"Andy Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive is a great book on strategy as is The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen."

"A great book on strategy."

"I learned a lot reading it."

"Excellent."

"A great book."

"The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James (the story of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian revolution) is my favorite leadership book ever and one of the great stories in human history (in fact, I should probably write a blog post about it)."

"My favorite leadership book ever and one of the great stories in human history."

"A great book. I highly recommend it for anyone run a company, but especially those who want a culture that encourages long-term innovation."

"In the category of management, I haven't found that many to be useful, but My Years at GM by Alfred Sloan was very interesting particularly on scale issues"

"Very interesting particularly on scale issues."

"Focus by Al Reis is a excellent on branding, naming, and marketing."

"Excellent [book] on branding, naming, and marketing."

"Andy Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive is a great book on strategy"

"A great book on strategy."

"It is truly rare to read a book this honest from a living legend. The Hollywood superhero lets us peak behind his mask and understand his weaknesses and methods."

"Unexpectedly the most interesting book on the topic of how you think about inclusion."

"Andy Grove, who built himself from nothing to run Intel, stopped what he was doing to teach us his magic. And not through some ghostwriter either — Andy wrote this book himself. What an incredible gift."

"An amazing entrepreneurial story covering everything from dice to fashion."

"Very, very interesting on leadership."

"A thrilling biography that provides great insight into how Communism works in practice."

"Great."

"A book about the dynamics of how large-scale, highly random systems behave."

"Perhaps the sharpest portrait yet of Louverture."

"Brand new knowledge."

"The memoir of a man who went to prison for 19 years, then became an author and MIT fellow."

"Delivers priceless advice for any young person who wants to build something great or change the world for the better."