Entrepreneur Steve Jobs is a name that most people recognize around the world. He co-founded Apple in 1976 and the rest is history. Today, we will be looking at Steve Jobs’ 20 favorite books. Keep reading to see which books made his list!
Jobs was an avid reader and was always reading or recommending books to his friends. Looking at a person’s favorite books can tell you a lot about them and that is true for this list too. The books chosen gives us an inside look at one of the smartest business minds of the past century. You can see the full list below
Steve Jobs 20 Favorite Books
- Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Maurice Burke
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
- Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret
- Be Here Now by Ram Dass
- The Way of the White Clouds by Lama Anagarika Govinda
- Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove
- Meetings with Remarkable Men by George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
- Ramakrishna and His Disciples by Christopher Isherwood
- The Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James
- Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Inside the Tornado by Geoffrey A. Moore
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
- The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
- Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
A Variety of Books
What I love about this list is that it includes a bunch of books I have never heard of or read. I would love to know how Jobs found some of these books. There are also some big-name classics such as 1984 and Moby Dick.
Conclusion
That is all for Steve Jobs’ 20 favorite books list. How many books have you read from this list and what did you think of Job’s favorite books? Let us know in the comments below!
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