Every Discipline Has a Book (David Perell)

David Perell (@david_perell) on X, September 10, 2020: “Every discipline has a book that everybody references, but nobody reads.”

The books

8 books.

• Das Kapital — Karl Marx
• Democracy in America — Alexis de Tocqueville
• Gödel, Escher, Bach — Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics — Richard P. Feynman
• The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham
• The Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
• Understanding Media — Marshall McLuhan

Connections

• Every discipline has a book… (tweet) — the original post, archived.
• Book Lists — Master