Books like Bad Blood

If you liked Bad Blood by John Carreyrou, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    Peter Thiel · 2014

    Because shares tags: business, nonfiction, technology.

    Thiel argues monopolies create value through vertical progress, not by copying competition.

  2. The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries · 2011

    Because shares tags: business, nonfiction, technology.

    Ries lays out Build-Measure-Learn, MVPs, pivots and validated learning for building companies under extreme uncertainty.

  3. Steve Jobs

    Walter Isaacson · 2011

    Because shares tags: business, technology, nonfiction.

    Walter Isaacson's authorized Steve Jobs: forty interviews covering the garage, the 1985 ouster, Pixar, and the return that made the iPhone.

  4. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    Robert M. Pirsig · 1974

    Because shares tags: technology, nonfiction.

    Father and son ride west while lectures on Quality and past madness intrude.

  5. I'll Be Gone in the Dark

    Michelle McNamara · 2018

    Because shares tags: true crime, nonfiction.

    Michelle McNamara hunted the Golden State Killer for years; she died in 2016, and her team finished this book before his 2018 arrest.

  6. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

    Jim Collins · 2001

    Because shares tags: business, nonfiction.

    A five-year study of 11 companies that leapt ahead shows Level 5 leaders, right people, hedgehog focus and flywheel momentum explain…

  7. Lean In

    Sheryl Sandberg · 2013

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, business.

    Sit at the table, negotiate, share home load, and change offices while knowing advice skews elite.

  8. Homo Deus

    Yuval Noah Harari · 2015

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, technology.

    After ruling the world, humans chase upgrades and delegate feeling to systems that know patterns.

  9. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

    John Berendt · 1994

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, true crime.

    Berendt spends five years in Savannah and gets drawn into the Jim Williams murder trials, among eccentrics and root doctors.

  10. If You Tell

    Gregg Olsen · 2019

    Because shares tags: true crime, nonfiction.

    Three sisters survive fear in a Raymond farmhouse and help police face long hidden murders.

  11. Think and Grow Rich

    Napoleon Hill · 1937

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, business.

    Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.

  12. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

    David Grann · 2017

    Because shares tags: true crime, nonfiction.

    In 1920s Oklahoma, Osage oil wealth makes tribal members targets for murder, forcing the young FBI under Tom White to expose the conspiracy…

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