Biographies, novels, advice, and more: Here are the titles that have caught the attention of John Doerr and Ryan Panchadsaram


The Ministry for the Future (A Novel)

By Kim Stanley Robinson


The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By Richard Rothstein


How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By Bill Gates


How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers

By David M. Rubenstein


The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

By Daniel Yergin


The Startup of You: Adapt, Take Risks, Grow Your Network, and Transform Your Career

By Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha


The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Age of Trump (2017 Edition)

By Al Gore


The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time

By Arianna Huffington


The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream

By Steve Case


The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It

By Marty Makary, M.D.


The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—and How to Make the Most of Them Now

By Meg Jay


Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World

By John Chambers


The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy

By David Gelles


Smart Brevity: the Power of Saying More with Less

By Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz


The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet

By Hal Harvey and Justin Gillis


The Martian (A Novel)

By Andy Weir


Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools

By Joel Klein


How Google Works

Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg


Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses “No, But” Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration

By Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton


The Road to Character

By David Brooks


Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle


Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

By Thomas L. Friedman


Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey

By John L. Hennessy


Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

By Arianna Huffington


Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

By Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli


The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

By Ben Horowitz


One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

By Salman Khan


Straight Talk for Start-Ups

By Jantoon Reigersman and Randy Komisar


Great By Choice

By Jim Collins