41 Tim O’Reilly Recommended Books
Tim O’Reilly is a technology publisher, thought leader, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, host of the O’Reilly Radar blog, and a board member of the Safari Books Online digital library. He has been responsible for popularizing the terms "Web 2.
41 Books recommended by Tim O’Reilly
The Way of Life, According to Laotzu
Author :Witter Bynner
- Tim O’Reilly"Most people who know me have heard me quote from this book." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog
Author :Ed Krol
- Tim O’Reilly"It had a catalogue in the back of interests to internet sites. If you tell that to this site, you’ll get earthquake information. [...] There were only 200 web sites." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
Information Rules
A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
Author :Carl Shapiro
- Tim O’ReillyTim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast. [Source]
AI Superpowers
China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Author :Kai-Fu Lee
- Tim O’Reilly"If you care about the future being brought to us by AI, this is the one indispensable book of 2018." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Discovery of the Mind
Author :Bruno Snell
- Tim O’ReillyTim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast. [Source]
Can You Forgive Her?
Palliser, Book 1
Author :Anthony Trollope
- Tim O’Reilly"It’s this sort of proto-feminist novel about these women who made choices that were unconventional in who they would marry." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Author :Tom Wolfe
- Tim O’Reilly"[Gets you] into the world of psychedelia and that era of the ‘70s." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
Charlie Chan
Five Complete Novels: The House Without a Key; The Chinese Parrot; Behind That Curtain; The Black Camel; Keeper of the Keys
Author :Earl Derr Biggers
- Tim O’Reilly"Like a time machine with the casual racism." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage, Book 1
Author :Zane Grey
- Tim O’Reilly"A time machine into how people felt about the world in [1915]." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
Babel-17 / Empire Star
Author :Samuel R. Delany
- Tim O’Reilly"I’d loved [this] little book." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Kabir Book
Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
Author :Robert Bly
- Tim O’Reilly"I love [this book]." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
Working Backwards
Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Author :Colin Bryar
- Tim O’Reilly"[The authors] dive deep into how Amazon has become the company to study if you want to succeed in 21st-century business." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
Intermediate Microeconomics
A Modern Approach
Author :Hal R. Varian
- Tim O’Reilly"Almost every economist learned from [this book]." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
When Nietzsche Wept
A Novel Of Obsession
Author :Irvin D. Yalom
- Tim O’Reilly"An imagined story of early psychoanalysis about a guy who was a predecessor to Freud." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Warden
Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 1
Author :Anthony Trollope
- Tim O’Reilly"You read [this book] and you go, 'Oh, my God, I’m reading a novel about the moral quandaries of an 1850s British cleric, and it’s fricking fascinating.'" - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Civil War
Author :Bruce Catton
- Tim O’ReillyTim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast. [Source]
Loving Every Child
Wisdom for Parents
Author :Janusz Korczak
- Tim O’Reilly"A wonderful book." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Innovator's Dilemma
When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Author :Clayton M. Christensen
- Tim O’Reilly"[A] business classic." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Author :W. B. Yeats
- Tim O’Reilly"I learned [that 20 of these poems] do nothing for me, and there’s this one that just goes 'Bang!'" - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Essential Rumi
Author :Jalal Al-Din Rumi
- Tim O’Reilly"The introduction alone [...] will make the hair stand up on your arms." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Collected Poems
The Corrected Edition
Author :Wallace Stevens
- Tim O’Reilly"Maybe it’s too intellectual for some people, but [...] go find a couple of poems of [this author]." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
Liar's Poker
Author :Michael Lewis
- Tim O’Reilly"A time machine into this place when our financial economy went crazily wrong." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
Pride and Prejudice
Author :Jane Austen
- Tim O’Reilly"In terms of classics, you can’t do better than [this author] for understanding the human soul." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
Makers and Takers
How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street
Author :Rana Foroohar
- Tim O’Reilly"All about the financialization of the economy." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Meaning of Culture
Author :John Cowper Powys
- Tim O’Reilly"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." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Lean Startup
How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Author :Eric Ries
- Tim O’Reilly"[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." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Odyssey
Author :Homer
- Tim O’ReillyTim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast. [Source]
Rissa Kerguelen
Book One in the Saga of Rissa
Author :F. M Busby
- Tim O’Reilly"Influenced me deeply." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
Night Train to Lisbon
A Novel
Author :Pascal Mercier
- Tim O’Reilly"Sometimes there was just a line in [this book] that changed my life in some way." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Way We Live Now
Author :Anthony Trollope
- Tim O’Reilly"About the great railroad bubbles of the 1860s." - Tim O’Reilly [Source]
The Second Machine Age
Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Author :Erik Brynjolfsson
- Tim O’ReillyTim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast. [Source]
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
Author :Russ Roberts
- Tim O’ReillyTim O’Reilly mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast. [Source]
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Q1: What kind of books does Tim O’Reilly typically recommend?
Tim O’Reilly often suggests titles that delve into the intersections of technology, business, and society. His recommendations range from cutting-edge tech trends to deep dives into the human side of the digital age.
Q2: Has Tim O’Reilly written any books himself?
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