I'd add Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar. I read it at 21 and it most definitely changed my life.

_Phantoms in the Brain_. It's by a neurologist, in the Oliver Sacks style; it's nominally about amputees with phantom-limb pain, but it's really a magical tour of our brain's capacity for denial, bias, and rationalization. And you need all three of those to build a startup.

"Atlas Shrugged : While I’m not an Ayn Rand fanatic, every entrepreneur (or aspiring entrepreneur) must read this book to better understand the morality of self-interest (which is at the root of Rand’s Objectivism philosophy)."

Please please ignore this. Or, read Atlas Shrugged for the entertainment value (it's entertaining!) but approach Rand's morality with extreme skepticism. You can be a successful entrepreneur, and a good person, but don't conflate the two. There is no causal relationship. Do not try to find meaning in profit, it's a waste of time.

People who look to Rand for direction are, in my experience, pretty insecure and one-dimensional. It's Stuart Smiley for businesspeople (and the whole idea of Going alt – taking that seriously – is pompous and transparently self-serving). If anything it's important to read from a kind of anthropological point of view because there are very earnest Rand nuts you'll encounter in the business world, who talk with earnest reverence about John Galt like this blogger (similarly, The Selfish Gene is a brilliant book completely misused by business people – Rand and The Selfish Gene were what everyone at Enron was reading).

My #1 recommendation to a 21-year old would be Letters to a Young Contrarian by Hitchens (it's a quick, entertaining read). After that, Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem", Neiman's "Moral Clarity", Hirsi Ali's "Infidel", Haley's "Malcolm X", and Pirsig. If you want to start developing a moral center, intellectual self-assuredness, and good judgement – I'd start with those and enjoy Rand for the pulp/kitsch that it is.

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