Building block books.
There are hundreds of popular books on business, science, technology, and investing but only a handful that represent seminal works that serve as the foundational building blocks for advanced thinking on a variety of topics.

We have put this list together to highlight special books including some that would never be popular enough to make all the mainstream lists people offer on their blogs and websites.
The Ultimate Resource 2The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value InvestingChaos: Making a New Science
The Ultimate Resource 2
by Julian Lincoln Simon
$42.68
Julian Simon blows holes though conventional thinking around "limited" resources like basic materials, energy and food. His w...
The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text ...
by Benjamin Graham
$19.79
If there is a bible for value investors this would certainly be it. Probably the most popular book on investing but one that ...
Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick

This is one of the first and by far most readable and interesting introductions to the theory. Knowledge of math or science i...
Out of the CrisisLateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (Perennial Library)Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Out of the Crisis
by W. Edwards Deming
$28.51
Ed Deming is a deep and profound thinker who applied new process methods to manufacturing that started in Japan and revolution...
Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (...
by Edward De Bono
$11.70
Many great discoveries, insights and inventions come from applying something well known in one discipline to another. This ty...
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Ch...
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$10.88
Taleb rubs some people the wrong way but his understanding of how mathematics, statistics and chance events relate to our thin...
SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous OrderThe Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael VentrisInnovation and Entrepreneurship
SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous O...
by Steven H. Strogatz
$16.47
Sync is about the science behind the phenomenon of spontaneous order. It's fascinating and well written. Also probably makes...
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story ...
by Andrew Robinson
$14.96
I never would have discovered this book were it not for a good friend who passed it along. Linear B is an ancient language tha...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by Peter F. Drucker
$13.25
Management gurus can be tedious but Drucker has his moments and his writing on Innovation and Entreneurship are spot on and ex...
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