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Fred Wilson

 Fred Wilson is an American businessman, venture capitalist and blogger. Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter, Etsy and MongoDB. 

25 Recommended books from Fred Wilson

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  • A Confederacy of Dunces

    by John Kennedy Toole January 1, 1987 Literature & Fiction

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    4.3 stars

    6,651 ratings

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
    “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a g...

  • Atlas Shrugged

    by Ayn Rand August 1, 1999 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    11,699 ratings

    Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s...

  • Catch-22

    by Joseph Heller April 5, 2011 Literature & Fiction

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    4.4 stars

    6,046 ratings

    This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews...

  • Endurance

    by Alfred Lansing April 28, 2015 Engineering & Transportation

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    4.8 stars

    6,646 ratings

    Experience one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age: The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's ...

  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull

    by Richard Bach September 1, 1970 Literature & Fiction

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    4.7 stars

    6,072 ratings

    People who make their own rules when they know they're right...people who get a special pleasure out of doing something well (e...

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude

    by Gabriel García Márquez February 21, 2006 Literature & Fiction

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    4.6 stars

    3,260 ratings

    "One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for...

  • Product Design for the Web

    by Randy J. Hunt October 29, 2013 Computers & Technology

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    4.2 stars

    33 ratings

    Web designers are no longer just web designers. To create a successful web product that’s as large as Etsy, Facebook, Twitter, ...

  • Setting the Table

    by Danny Meyer January 29, 2008 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.6 stars

    1,419 ratings

    The bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake Sh...

  • Siddhartha

    by Hermann Hesse January 1, 1982 Literature & Fiction

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    4.7 stars

    3,019 ratings

    The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and th...

  • Snow Crash

    by Neal Stephenson August 26, 2003 Science Fiction & Fantasy

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    4.3 stars

    2,624 ratings

    One of Time’s 100 best English-language novels • A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you...

  • Talking to Humans

    by Giff Constable September 23, 2014 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    296 ratings

    With a foreword from Steve Blank, Talking to Humans is a practical guide to the qualitative side of customer development, an in...

  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

    by Michael Chabon January 1, 2012 Literature & Fiction

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    4.4 stars

    2,077 ratings

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroe...

  • The Art of War

    by Sun-Tzu January 11, 2005 History

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    4.5 stars

    20,051 ratings

    Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal...

  • The Aspirational Investor

    by Ashvin B. Chhabra June 2, 2015 Business & Money

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    4.2 stars

    67 ratings

    The Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management explains why goals, not markets, should be the primary focus of...

  • The Business Blockchain

    by William Mougayar May 9, 2016 Business & Money

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    4.0 stars

    166 ratings

    The definitive pioneering blueprint covering the what, why and how of the blockchain.

    Blockchains are new technology layers...

  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare October 1, 2014 Literature & Fiction

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    4.8 stars

    1,980 ratings

    No library is complete without the classics! This leather-bound edition includes the complete works of the playwright and poet ...

  • The Fountainhead

    by Ayn Rand November 1, 1994 Literature & Fiction

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    4.6 stars

    4,939 ratings

    The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her im...

  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    by Ben Horowitz March 4, 2014 Business & Money

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    4.7 stars

    3,602 ratings

    Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers...

  • The Little Prince

    by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry May 15, 2000 Literature & Fiction

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    4.8 stars

    6,096 ratings

    Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard...

  • The Prince

    by Nicolò Machiavelli December 21, 2020 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.5 stars

    596 ratings

    The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From corres...

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