EDUCATION

• How to Win Friends & Influence People — Dale Carnegie
   
• Think and Grow Rich — Napoleon Hill
   
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen R. Covey Square
   
• Good to Great — Jim Collins Business Insider+3visiontolife.com+3Square+3
   
• Built to Last — Jim Collins & Jerry Porras visiontolife.com+1
   
• The E‑Myth Revisited — Michael E. Gerber reddit.com+5nutshell.com+5boxwoodco.com+5
   
• The Lean Startup — Eric Ries Wikipedia+15visiontolife.com+15Wikipedia+15
   
• Zero to One — Peter Thiel & Blake Masters Wikipedia+15nutshell.com+15smallbiztrends.com+15
   
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz visiontolife.com+1
   
• Traction — Gino Wickman visiontolife.com
   
• The Art of the Start 2.0 — Guy Kawasaki smallbiztrends.com
   
• Rework — Jason Fried & D. Heinemeier Hansson startupcafedigital.com
   
• Measure What Matters — John Doerr zapier.com+1
   
• Profit First — Mike Michalowicz zapier.com+2reddit.com+2
   
• The 4 Disciplines of Execution — Chris McChesney, Sean Covey & Jim Huling visiontolife.com
   
• The Innovator’s Dilemma — Clayton Christensen Square+2Wikipedia+2
   
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — Robert Cialdini fundbox.com
   
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts — Susan Cain zapier.com
   
• The One Thing — Gary Keller & Jay Papasan Wikipedia+1
   
• Delivering Happiness — Tony Hsieh 

• The E‑Myth Revisited — Michael E. Gerber (also above)
   
• Profit First — Mike Michalowicz (also above)
   
• The 4‑Hour Workweek — Tim Ferriss Square+1
   
• The Thank You Economy — Gary Vaynerchuk smallbiztrends.com
   
• Delivering Happiness — Tony Hsieh (duplicate)
   
• Subscribed — Tien Tzuo zapier.com
   
• Regenerative Business — Samantha Garcia zapier.com+1
   
• The Creative Entrepreneur — Various boxwoodco.com+1
   
• Trailblazer — Marc Benioff boxwoodco.com
   
• Burn Rate — Andy Dunn boxwoodco.com
   
• Start Your Own Business — Rieva Lesonsky (Entrepreneur Magazine) smallbiztrends.com
   
• The $100 Startup — Chris Guillebeau smallbiztrends.com
   
• Grit — Angela Duckworth smallbiztrends.com+2startupcafedigital.com+2
   
• Lost and Founder — Rand Fishkin startupcafedigital.com
   
• The Business of Design — Keith Granet architecturaldigest.com
   
• The Practice — Seth Godin architecturaldigest.com
   
• The Power of Broke — Daymond John architecturaldigest.com
   
• The Creative's Guide to Starting a Business — Harriet Kelsall architecturaldigest.com
   
• Build a Business You Love — Various Authors (modern entrepreneur mindset) boxwoodco.com
   
• The 5 Types of Wealth — Unknown author (listed modern pick) boxwoodco.com

• Mindset — Carol Dweck zapier.com
   
• Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss zapier.com
   
• The Work — Wes Moore zapier.com
   
• The Practice — Seth Godin (duplicate)
   
• Originals — Adam Grant Business Insider
   
• High Output Management — Andy Grove Business Insider
   
• Atomic Habits — James Clear reddit.com
   
• Soul of a New Machine — Tracy Kidder time.com
   
• Business Adventures — John Brooks Business Insider
   
• Drive — Daniel H. Pink wsj.com
   
• The Innovator's Dilemma (duplicate)
   
• The Art of War — Sun Tzu fundbox.com
   
• Chasing Hope — Nicholas Kristof Business Insider
   
• Amp It Up — Frank Slootman The Times
   
• Shoe Dog — Phil Knight The Times
   
• Reverse Mentoring — Patrice Gordon The Times
   
• Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity — Peter Attia The Times
   
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius inc.com
   
• Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe inc.com
   
• Lord of the Flies — William Golding inc.com

•  Positioning - Al Ries & Jack Trout

• Ogilvy on Advertising - David Ogilvy

• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing - Al Ries & Jack Trout

• Marketing Management - Philip Kotler & Kevin Lane Keller

• Purple Cow - Seth Godin

• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - Richard P. Rumelt

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini

• Buy.ology - Martin Lindstrom

• Made to Stick - Chip Heath & Dan Heath

• The Brand Gap - Marty Neumeier

• Zag: The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands - Marty Neumeier

• Epic Content Marketing - Joe Pulizzi

• Everybody Writes - Ann Handley

• Building a StoryBrand - Donald Miller

• Content Chemistry - Andy Crestodina

• The Copywriter's Handbook - Robert Bly

• Contagious: How to Build Word of Mouth in the Digital Age - Jonah Berger

• Social Media ROI - Olivier Blanchard

• No B.S. Guide to Direct Marketing - Dan Kennedy & Kim Walsh-Phillips

• The Anatomy of Buzz - Emanuel Rosen

• Conversion Optimization - Khalid Saleh & Ayat Shukairy

• Play Bigger - Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead & Kevin Maney

• Competing Against Luck - Clayton Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon & David Duncan

• Marketing Artificial Intelligence - Paul Roetzer & Mike Kaput

• This Is Marketing - Seth Godin

• Good to Great (duplicate)
   
• Built to Last (duplicate)
   
• Scaling Up — Verne Harnish Business Insider+1visiontolife.com
   
• The 4 Disciplines of Execution (duplicate)
   
• Traction (duplicate)
   
• Blue Ocean Strategy — W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne Wikipedia
   
• Business Adventures (duplicate)
   
• High Output Management (duplicate)
   
• The Lean Startup (duplicate)
   
• Measure What Matters (duplicate)
   
• The Innovator’s Dilemma (duplicate)
   
• Rework (duplicate)
   
• Lost and Founder (duplicate)
   
• Built to Last (duplicate)
   
• Small Giants — Bo Burlingham (not from search but implied classic)
   
• The Great Game of Business — Jack Stack & Bo Burlingham visiontolife.com+2Business Insider+2startupcafedigital.com
   
• The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) manual — Gino Wickman (related to Traction)
   
• Play Bigger — Al Ramadan et al. (plausible addition)
   
• Crossing the Chasm — Geoffrey Moore (classic startup growth)
   
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy — Richard Rumelt (classic insight)
   

(Note: some titles are well-known though not always in search results cited.)

• Competing in the Age of AI — Marco Iansiti & Karim Lakhani visiontolife.comboxwoodco.com
   
• Superagency — Reid Hoffman & Greg Beato boxwoodco.com
   
• Why Machines Learn — Anil Ananthaswamy wsj.com
   
• The Digital Mindset — Paul Leonardi & Tsedal Neeley wsj.com
   
• Weapons of Math Destruction — Cathy O’Neil wsj.com
   
• AI for Entrepreneurs: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence… — Benjamin Cole amazon.com+2amazon.com+2
   
• AI for Entrepreneurs: How to Successfully Build… — Ervin Shaw amazon.com
   
• Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Entrepreneurship — Obschonka & Audretsch arxiv.org
   
• Prediction Machines — Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb (not found but relevant)
   
• Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms — Hannah Fry (modern AI ethics)
   
• The Future is Faster Than You Think — Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler (AI trend)
   
• Machine, Platform, Crowd — Andrew McAfee & Erik Brynjolfsson
   
• Homo Deus — Yuval Noah Harari (technology & future)
   
• AI Superpowers — Kai‑Fu Lee (global perspective)
   
• Human + Machine — Paul Daugherty & H. James Wilson (enterprises AI)
   
• Life 3.0 — Max Tegmark (AI existential)
   
• Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live — James Vlahos (voice tech)
   
• The Singularity Is Near — Ray Kurzweil
   
• Architects of Intelligence — Martin Ford
   
• Rebooting AI — Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis (AI critique)