20 Books That Shaped Steve Jobs | Radical Reads
A list of American business magnate and former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' favorite books, from Ayn Rand and Dylan Thomas to Herman Melville and William Shakespeare.
While Steve Jobs famously once said that people don’t read anymore, he’s wasn’t one of them. The innovator, salesman and tech and marketing visionary was also a prolific reader with a penchant for poetry, LSD, Bauhaus and Zen Buddhism. Walter Isaacson’s 2013 biography Steve Jobs takes an unprecedented look at the books that first made the man think different. Beginning with his intense interest in literature and the arts that was sparked after his first experience with acid in high school, Jobs began devouring books on spirituality, enlightenment, and the power of psychedelic drugs. Many…
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