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Best Silicon Valley Books That Should Be On Your Bookshelf

While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Silicon Valley books.

A People’s History of Silicon Valley (2018)

 Best Silicon Valley Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfLiterary Nonfiction. A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY follows the history of the people exploited, displaced, and made obsolete by the tech industry, from the colonization of the Bay Area to the present day.
Author(s): Keith A. Spencer

111 Places in Silicon Valley That You Must Not Miss (111 Places in …. That You Must Not Miss) (2019)

 Best Silicon Valley Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfSilicon Valley has become the Mesopotamia of the Digital Age, built on cycles of innovation and disruption, monstrous ambition, and a steady supply of labor and capital. Yet for all that's known about companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook – and the personas behind those companies – the culture of Silicon Valley remains elusive and contradictory, even to many locals.
Author(s): Floriana Petersen

Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Everyone Else Can Learn from the Innovation Capital of the World (2014)

 Best Silicon Valley Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfWhile the global economy languishes, one place just keeps growing despite failing banks, uncertain markets, and high unemployment: Silicon Valley. In the last two years, more than 100 incubators have popped up in the high-tech capital, and the number of angel investors has skyrocketed.
Author(s): Deborah Perry Piscione

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley (2019)

 Best Silicon Valley Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfSilicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world. Unless you’re a woman.For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It’s a “Brotopia,” where men hold all the cards and make all the rules.
Author(s): Emily Chang

The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans (2004)

 Best Silicon Valley Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfThis sweeping history explores the growing Latino presence in the United States over the past two hundred years. It also debunks common myths about Silicon Valley, one of the world’s most influential but least-understood places.
Author(s): Stephen J. Pitti

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (2020)

 Best Silicon Valley Books That Should Be On Your Bookshelf    In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood.
Author(s): John Carreyrou

The Prophet from Silicon Valley: The Complete Story of Sequential Circuits (2015)

 Best Silicon Valley Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfOne of the great American synthesizer companies, founded and led by San Francisco electronics and computer graduate, Dave Smith, Sequential Circuits Inc. paved the way for music of the future. Smith brought easy, affordable and powerful polyphonic synthesis to all levels of music production in the form of the ground-breaking Prophet-5 synthesizer. Released in 1978, the Prophet led the new wave movement into the next decade, creating a sonically exciting soundtrack to eighties culture.
Author(s): David Abernethy , AM Publishing New Zealand, A Morris, et al.

Chronicles of a Silicon Valley Pinhead CEO (2019)

 Best Silicon Valley Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfThe story behind new leadership of a Silicon Valley start-up as it falls from grace.
Author(s): Allen Hollingshead

The Global Silicon Valley Handbook (2017)

 Best Silicon Valley Books That Should Be On Your BookshelfSilicon Valley has become synonymous with big ideas, start-ups, and inventing the future. But today, the magic of Silicon Valley has gone viral and global.
Author(s): Michael Moe

Best Silicon Valley Books that Should be on Your Bookshelf

We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some silicon valley books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

Author(s): Margaret O’Mara
ID: 2387891, Publisher: Penguin Press, Year: 9 July 2019, Size: 26 Mb, Format: epub

The Founders : The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

Author(s): Jimmy Soni
ID: 3224470, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Year: 2022, Size: 24 Mb, Format: epub

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

Author(s): Jimmy Soni
ID: 3224475, Publisher: Simon and Schuster, Year: 2022, Size: 26 Mb, Format: pdf

Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are really chart-busters according to The New York Times, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.

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