


Yale Innovators' Reading List
What books have inspired you to think differently? Yale Ventures asked members of the Yale innovation community to share their top recommendations, and here is the list.
1. Productivity · Focus
Books challenging how we think, set priorities, and manage limited time.

Essentialism
Recommended by Fatema Basrai, Managing Director, Innovate Health Yale

Deep Work
From Grace Gerwe, President of Yale Entrepreneurial Society

Think Again
From Stuart DeCew, Executive Director, Yale Center for Business and the Environment

Four Thousand Weeks
Picked by Jorge Torres, Lecturer, Tsai CITY
2. Entrepreneurship · Innovation
Insights from founders, leaders, and thinkers on building ventures and ideas.

Insights
Pick of Josh Geballe, Managing Director, Yale Ventures

Build the Damn Thing
From Clare Leinweber, Executive Director, Tsai CITY

The Lean Startup
Recommended by Angela Maalouf, Roberts Innovation Fund

Where Good Ideas Come From
From Casey Pickett, Project Director, Office of the Provost

Do Better Work
Recommended by Claudia Reuter, Director, Roberts Innovation Fund
3. Futures · Imagination
Using storytelling, science, and nature to envision possible futures.

