Books Like Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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If you loved Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, these books share similar qualities — same genre, comparable themes, and the kind of reader ratings that signal something special. Whether you read on Kindle, in print, or on audio, these recommendations deliver the same kind of experience.

10 books for fans of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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    Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

    by David Epstein

    4.65 BLT Score (80.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (80.7K)
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    Humankind: A Hopeful History

    by Rutger Bregman, Elizabeth Manton, Erica Moore

    4.67 BLT Score (81.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (81.8K)
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    The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

    by Michael Lewis

    4.49 BLT Score (172.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (172.2K)
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    Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

    Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series

    by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

    4.81 BLT Score (21.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (21.9K)
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    When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

    by Gabor Maté

    4.61 BLT Score (36.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (36.0K)
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    The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided

    by Jonathan Haidt

    4.58 BLT Score (66.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (66.9K)
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    All the President's Men

    by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

    4.50 BLT Score (58.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (58.3K)
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    Quiet

    by Susan Cain

    4.47 BLT Score (478.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (478.1K)
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    The Democrat Party Hates America

    by Mark R. Levin

    4.45 BLT Score (1.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.44 Goodreads (1.2K)
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    Bloody Ridge and Beyond

    by Marlin Groft, Larry Alexander

    4.44 BLT Score (272 ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (272)

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