# Books for crypto builders and beyond (2022)

> In the spirit of sharing what we’re reading — a regular tradition around here; see our just-published winter reads (+games) as crowdsourced from team a16z crypto — below are some of the books we curated for the giveaway library at our recent inaugural a16z crypto Founder Summit. But… the books in th...

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- Authors: [a16z crypto editorial](https://a16zcrypto.com/team/a16z-crypto-editorial)
- Published: 2022-12-18
- Updated: 2025-10-31
- Focus areas: tech trends
- Tags: what we're reading, Founders Summits

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In the spirit of sharing [what we’re reading](https://a16z.com/tag/what-were-reading/) — a regular tradition around here; see our just-published [winter](https://a16zcrypto.com/some-books-were-reading-and-games-were-playing-this-winter/) reads (+games) as crowdsourced from team a16z crypto — below are some of the books we curated for the giveaway library at our recent inaugural a16z crypto Founder Summit.

But… the books in this list are not just for founders, nor are they only about crypto; the list also includes works covering tech history, company building, and the recurring theme of innovation past/ present/ future. Whether science or science fiction, memoir or organizational history, or textbook, there’s something here for everyone interested in crypto and beyond.

*listed alphabetically by author:*

**The Nature of Technology: What it Is and How it Evolves** by W. Brian Arthur

**The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann** by Ananyo Bhattacharya

**A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography** by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup

**Proof of Stake: The making of ethereum and the philosophy of blockchains** by Vitalik Buterin

**Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions** by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

**Designing an Internet** by David Clark

**The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World** by David Deutsch

**Selected Short Stories** by Philip Dick

**A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution** by Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg

**The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation** by Jon Gertner

**Alan Turing: Enigma** by Andrew Hodges

**The Hard Thing about the Hard Things** by Ben Horowitz

**The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company** by Bob Iger

**The Death and Life of Great American Cities** by Jane Jacobs

**Pentagon’s Brain: An uncensored history of DARPA, America’s top-secret military research agency** by Annie Jacobsen

**Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer** by Steven Johnson

**Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World** by Jill Jonnes

**Masters of Doom** by David Kushner

**The Company: A short history of a revolutionary idea** by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge

**Virtual Society: The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience** by Herman Narula

**Algorithmic Game Theory** edited by Noam Nisan, Tim Roughgarden, Eva Tardos, Vijay Vazirani

**The Infinite Machine: How an army of crypto-hackers is building the next internet with Ethereum** by Camila Russo

**Coding democracy: How hackers are disrupting power, surveillance, and authoritarianism** by Maureen Webb

**Project Hail Mary** by Andy Weir

*curated by Sonal Chokshi and Brittney Burrows*

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