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The Shelf

The Shelf

Books worth reading that got a real conversation across the pieces — one page each: what it is, why it's worth it, where it came from.

61 books
Eric H. Cline
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
in 1George Orwell
1984
in 1Hamilton Helmer
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
in 20Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
in 2Janet Jones
A Horse's World
in 1Brad Stone
Amazon Unbound
in 1George Orwell
Animal Farm
in 1Norman R. Augustine
Augustine's Laws
in 1Joe Coulombe
Becoming Trader Joe
in 1Cedric Robinson
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
in 1Roger Lowenstein
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
in 1Catherine Higgs
Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
in 1Siddharth Kara
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
in 1Philip Fisher
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
in 1Blake J. Harris
Console Wars
in 1Frank Herbert
Dune
in 1Dave Stearns
Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System
in 1Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
in 2Isaac Asimov
Foundation
in 1Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
in 1Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
in 1David Sheff
Game Over
in 2Jim Collins
Good to Great
in 1Robin D.G. Kelley
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
in 1Henry M. Field
History of the Atlantic Telegraph
in 1Dr. Seuss
Horton Hears a Who!
in 1Steven Levy
In the Plex
in 1Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
in 1Adam Hochschild
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
in 1Michael Lewis
Liar's Poker
in 1William Golding
Lord of the Flies
in 1Sam Walton, John Huey
Made in America
in 4Chelsea Conaboy
Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood
in 1Dee Hock
One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
in 1
Poor Charlie's Almanack
in 1Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
in 1
Profits of War
in 1Benjamin Graham, David Dodd
Security Analysis
in 2Ben Rich
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
in 1Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
in 1J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
in 1Brad Stone
The Everything Store
in 3James S.A. Corey
The Expanse
in 1Lois Lowry
The Giver
in 1F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
in 1Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
in 1Ida Tarbell
The History of the Standard Oil Company
in 1Benjamin Graham
The Intelligent Investor
in 1Jean-Noël Kapferer, Vincent Bastien
The Luxury Strategy
in 2Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
in 1Balaji Srinivasan
The Network State: How To Start a New Country
in 1Friedrich A. Hayek
The Road to Serfdom
in 1John Battelle
The Search
in 1Benjamin Lorr
The Secret Life of Groceries
in 1Alice Schroeder
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
in 3Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart
in 1
The Wal-Mart Effect
in 1Ron Chernow
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
in 2Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
in 1Thomas More
Utopia
in 1Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
in 1