Peter Thiel Book Recommendations (All-Time)
Book 1 - Psychopolitics by Jean-Michel Oughourlian
Peter Thiel: “For a fresh application of Mr. Girard’s insights into power politics, that great international theater of irrationality."
Book 2 - Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard
Peter Thiel: “We [followers of Girard], had sort of a sense that we had figured out the truth about the world in a way that nobody else did."
Book 3 - Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
Peter Thiel: “Accurately describes inequality in the past and present of countries like the United States."
Book 4 - Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos
Peter Thiel: “f you don't use your freedom of speech, one day you might find that it's gone. Buy this book while it's legal."
Book 5 - The Decadent Society by Ross Gregory Douthat
Peter Thiel: “Sets the stakes for the most urgent public debate of the 2020s: How do we get back to the future?"
Book 6 - The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson
Peter Thiel: “One of the books that tremendously influenced me when I started PayPal."
Book 7 - Originals by Adam Grant
Peter Thiel: “It can sometimes seem as if one must learn everything old before one can try anything new. [The author] does a masterful job showing that is not the case; we are lucky to have him as a guide."
Book 8 - 7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer
Peter Thiel: “The author understands that strategy starts with invention. He can't tell you what to invent, but he can and does show what it takes for a new invention to become a valuable business."
Book 9 - 100 Plus by Sonia Arrison
Peter Thiel: “Its message is evergreen: how scientists are directly attacking the problem of aging and death and why we should fight for life instead of accepting decay as inevitable."
Book 10 - Life After Google by George Gilder
Peter Thiel: “The future depends on human action."
Book 11 - The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Peter Thiel: “Every management guide presumes that all great companies follow a formula. But successful startups don’t imitate; they build innovations that can’t be copied.”