Read, Watch, Listen, Build
The Everywhere community’s top picks for building, scaling, and growing.
To help you close out the year with inspiration, we’ve compiled a list of the top books and podcasts recommended by the Everywhere founder community. Whether you’re looking to sharpen your entrepreneurial instincts, hear about the latest trends, or just find something to immerse yourself in, these picks have a little something for every curious mind trying to survive and thrive in 2026. Happy New Year Everywhere!
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Venture Everywhere - Jenny Fielding
The Fuzzy and the Techie - Scott Hartley
Making Waves - Helaine Knapp
Drop the Ball - Tiffany Dufu
Failing To Win - Mike Quinn
Boss Moves
A CEO Only Does Three Things – Trey Taylor
Amp It Up – Frank Slootman
Dare to Lead – Brené Brown
High Output Management – Andrew S. Grove
How to Lead – David M. Rubenstein
Jack: Straight from the Gut – Jack Welch
Radical Candor – Kim Scott
Scaling People – Claire Hughes Johnson
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership – Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp
The Advantage – Patrick Lencioni
The Culture Code – Daniel Coyle
The Effective Executive – Peter F. Drucker
The Great CEO Within – Matt Mochary
Who: The A Method for Hiring – Geoff Smart & Randy Street
Startup Strategy
Build – Tony Fadell
Competing Against Luck – Clayton M. Christensen
Founders at Work – Jessica Livingston
Getting Real – 37signals / Jason Fried / David Heinemeier Hansson
Loonshots – Safi Bahcall
Super Founders – Ali Tamaseb
The Cold Start Problem – Andrew Chen
The Four Steps to the Epiphany – Steve Blank
The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
The Messy Middle – Scott Belsky
Think, Grow, Succeed
Did That Just Happen?! – Stephanie Pinder-Amaker & Lauren Wadsworth
Good to Great – Jim Collins
Grit – Angela Duckworth
Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
The Gap and The Gain – Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School – Mark McCormack
Venture Deals – Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
Habits, Headspace & Happiness
12 Rules for Life – Jordan Peterson
Atomic Habits – James Clear
Be Useful – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Daring Greatly – Brené Brown
Essentialism – Greg McKeown
Extreme Productivity – Bob Pozen
Insight – Tasha Eurich
Just as I Am – Cicely Tyson
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
Mindset – Carol S. Dweck
Presence – Amy Cuddy
Super Attractor – Gabrielle Bernstein
The Daily Stoic - Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
The Slight Edge – Jeff Olson & John David Mann
The Second Mountain – David Brooks
The Surrender Experiment – Michael A. Singer
Create & Innovate
Be Ready When the Luck Happens – Ina Garten
Come As You Are – Emily Nagoski
Creativity, Inc. – Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace
The Art of Gathering – Priya Parker
The Creative Act – Rick Rubin
The Creative Curve – Allen Gannett
The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing – Al Ries & Jack Trout
The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton M. Christensen
Hackers & Painters – Paul Graham
Hit Makers – Derek Thompson
How the Internet Happened – Brian McCullough
Brains & Bytes
A Man for All Markets – Edward O. Thorp
Algorithms to Live By – Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
Antifragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari
Thinking in Bets – Annie Duke
Weapons of Math Destruction – Cathy O’Neil
Where Wizards Stay Up Late – Katie Hafner
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You – Janelle Shane
History & Humanity
All We Can Save – Katharine K. Wilkinson & Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
How Civil Wars Start – Barbara F. Walter
Human Givens – Joe Griffin & Ivan Tyrrell
More than a Glitch – Meredith Broussard
Nonviolent Communication – Marshall B. Rosenberg
Red Helicopter – James Rhee
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
The Jazz of Physics – Stephon Alexander
True Biz – Sara Nović
What Is Tao? – Alan Watts
What the Buddha Taught – Walpola Rahula
Voices of the Everywhere Community
The Augmented Intelligence Podcast
Founders’ Frequency
Funded | How They Raised Millions
Thought Waves
