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Here are 16 books VCs are reading this summer

Riddhi Kanetkar,Callum BurroughsAug 16, 2024, 16:54 IST

Lisa Bubert started a book list in 2013 that grew to over 500 books.Getty Images

Business Insider asked European venture capitalists about their favorite reads for summer.
They picked novels, as well as non-fiction about technology, business, and productivity.

Everyone's kicking back and flocking to the beach — and investors are no exception.

Business Insider asked European venture capitalists what novels and non-fiction books they've been reading in their summer downtime.

Here's what they said.

'Supercommunicators' by Charles Duhigg

Amazon

'The Spy and the Traitor' by Ben Macintyre

Amazon

'Among the Braves' by Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin

Amazon

'Poverty, by America' by Matthew Desmond

Amazon

'AI 2041' by Kai-Fu Lee

Amazon

'The Three-Body Problem' by Liu Cixin

Amazon

'Build' by Tony Fadell

Amazon

'Ada or Ardor' by Vladimir Nabokov

Amazon

'Ender's Game' by Andrew Scott Card

Amazon.com

'The School of Life: An Emotional Education' by Alain de Botton

Amazon

'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington

Amazon

'Wool' by Hugh Howey

Amazon

'Klara and the Sun' by Kazuo Ishiguro

Amazon

'Civilization' by Niall Ferguson

Amazon

'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now by Eckhart TolleAmazon

'Why We're Polarized' by Ezra Klein

Why We're Polarized by Ezra KleinAmazon

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