11 of the best books you can read in a week
Get the Full StoryStrelka Institute Flickr Attribution LicenseIf you want to emulate some of the most successful people in the world, you can start by reading books — lots of them.
From Elon Musk to Mark Cuban to Oprah Winfrey, the most powerful innovators in the world all read several hours a day.
But starting a new book can be a daunting task if you don't have a lot of free time. With that in mind, we've selected 11 insightful, rewarding books around 250 pages or less that you can finish in a week.
Read on for the full list:'Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination' by Adam Lashinsky
Amazon
Page count: 240
Amazon description:
"Wild Ride is the first truly inside look at Uber’s global empire. Veteran journalist Adam Lashinsky, the bestselling author of Inside Apple, traces the origins of Kalanick’s massive ambitions in his humble roots, and he explores Uber’s murky beginnings and the wild ride of its rapid growth and expansion into different industries."
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'Animal Farm' by George Orwell
Amazon
Page count: 124
Amazon description:
"Manor Farm is like any other English farm, expect for a drunken owner, Mr Jones, incompetent workers and oppressed animals. Fed up with the ignorance of their human masters, the animals rise up in rebellion and take over the farm. Led by intellectually superior pigs like Snowball and Napoleon, the animals how to take charge of their destiny and remove the inequities of their lives. But as time passes, the realize that things aren't happening quite as expected. Animal Farm is, one level, a simple story about barnyard animals.
"On a much deeper level, it is a savage political satire on corrupted ideals, misdirected revolutions and class conflict-themes as valid today as they were sixty years ago."
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'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk
Amazon.com
Page count: 224
Amazon description:
"In his debut novel, Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist. Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret boxing matches in the basement of bars. There two men fight 'as long as they have to.' A gloriously original work that exposes what is at the core of our modern world."
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