12 books recommended by Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal and Palantir, made the first outside investment in Facebook, funded companies like SpaceX and LinkedIn, and started the Thiel Fellowship, which encourages young people to put learning before college.

  1. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  2. New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
  3. The American Challenge by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
  4. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
  5. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Moog
  6. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
  7. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell
  8. Resurrection From the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture) by Rene Girard
  9. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
  10. 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith by Sonia Arrison
  11. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard
  12. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

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