SHOW HN: Good Books – book recommendations from successful people

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Hey everyone Excited to launch a side project I've been working on: https://www.goodbooks.io Good Books is a curated collection of book recommendations from some of the most successful, influential and interesting people around the world. Let me know who you'd love book recommendations from and I'll add them to the list. This project started about 6-months ago when I started to keep track of all the books that I wanted to read and who recommended them. I then got (a little) obsessed with the project and ended up accumulating over 15,000 book recommendations from about 1,250 people... I built Good Books to share these book recommendations with the world, organising them into simple categories and industries so it's easy to find your next read. What's next for Good Books? - 100s more recommendations every month - Adding more interesting people (who would you like to see?) - Writing some curated recommendation lists - Planning a weekly newsletter with recommendations - Adding sources to book recommendations Thanks!

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