Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, a leading publisher of technology books and online learning. He coined the term "Web 2.0" and has shaped how the tech industry thinks about open source, innovation, and digital culture for over three decades.
35 Books Recommended by Tim Oreilly
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[A] business classic.
Also recommended by: Mark Cuban, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Drew Houston, Ev Williams, Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Michael Bloomberg, Aaron Levie, Ben Horowitz, Bill Gurley, Caterina Fake, Blake Scholl, Chris Dixon, Guy Kawasaki, Max Levchin, Steve Blank

The Lean Startup
16 people recommended[This book] isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do.
Also recommended by: Mark Cuban, Dustin Moskovitz, Kevin Systrom, Marc Andreessen, Sheryl Sandberg, Andrew Ng, Ben Horowitz, Chris Dixon, Patrick Bet David, Jason Calacanis, Marty Cagan, Mike Maples Jr, Raoul Pal, Steve Blank, Derek Sivers

AI Superpowers
10 people recommendedIf you care about the future being brought to us by AI, this is the one indispensable book of 2018.
Also recommended by: Balaji Srinivasan, Marc Benioff, Balaji S. Srinivasan, Arianna Huffington, Chris Anderson, Yuval Noah Harari, Peter Diamandis, Ryan Shea, Satya Nadella
Tim OβReilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Also recommended by: Jay Z, Caterina Fake, Michael Pollan, Stewart Brand, Walter Isaacson
The Essential Rumi
5 people recommendedThe introduction alone [...] will make the hair stand up on your arms.
Also recommended by: Adam Robinson, Harry Styles, Kevin Kelly, Tara Brach
A time machine into this place when our financial economy went crazily wrong.
Also recommended by: Chamath Palihapitiya, Tim Ferriss, Trung Phan
Working Backwards
4 people recommended[The authors] dive deep into how Amazon has become the company to study if you want to succeed in 21st-century business.
Also recommended by: Austen Allred, Marty Cagan, Tyler Cowen
Most people who know me have heard me quote from this book.
Also recommended by: Ev Williams, Dr Andrew Weil
Pride and Prejudice
2 people recommendedIn terms of classics, you canβt do better than [this author] for understanding the human soul.
Also recommended by: Hillary Clinton
The Collected Poems
2 people recommendedMaybe itβs too intellectual for some people, but [...] go find a couple of poems of [this author].
Also recommended by: Caterina Fake
The Way We Live Now
2 people recommendedAbout the great railroad bubbles of the 1860s.
Also recommended by: Sarah Jessica Parker

The Second Machine Age
2 people recommendedTim OβReilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Also recommended by: Michael Dell
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
2 people recommendedI learned [that 20 of these poems] do nothing for me, and thereβs this one that just goes 'Bang!'
Also recommended by: Christopher Hitchens
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
2 people recommended[Gets you] into the world of psychedelia and that era of the β70s.
Also recommended by: Jordan Peterson
The Meaning of Culture
Talks about the interplay of culture and life, the way that what we read can enrich what we experience, and what we experience can enrich what we read.
Night Train to Lisbon
Sometimes there was just a line in [this book] that changed my life in some way.
The Discovery of the Mind
Tim OβReilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Information Rules
Tim OβReilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
The Whole Internet User’s Guide & Catalog
It had a catalogue in the back of interests to internet sites. If you tell that to this site, youβll get earthquake information. [...] There were only 200 web sites.
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Tim OβReilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Unrig
I love [this book]. A graphic 'novel' explaining how to unrig the US's broken democracy.
Can You Forgive Her?
Itβs this sort of proto-feminist novel about these women who made choices that were unconventional in who they would marry.
Riders of the Purple Sage
A time machine into how people felt about the world in [1915].
The Warden
You read [this book] and you go, 'Oh, my God, Iβm reading a novel about the moral quandaries of an 1850s British cleric, and itβs fricking fascinating.'
Trilby
Everybody knows Charles Dickens, but only a certain number of people will have read [this book].
When Nietzsche Wept
An imagined story of early psychoanalysis about a guy who was a predecessor to Freud.
The Civil War
Tim OβReilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
