Recommendations for the lending library at a technology strategy consulting firm

tldr: I’m starting a lending library at work, I work in software consulting, I would like recommendations about what EA books to include in the library and what well known business strategy or technology books to avoid.

Hello all! This is my first post so please let me know if there is a different forum/​ area that I should move it to.

I have the approval, and likely some funding, to start a small lending library in the break room at work. I work at a large privet equity and corporate strategy consulting firm. Specifically, I am in the software strategy group. My office is in Boston, but the other software strategy groups are in SF and NYC. The goal is to expand the library to those offices soon. The lending library must include some business strategy and foundational technology books. Beyond that, there are very few constraints. To my knowledge, my coworkers have had no exposer to EA outside of conversations I’ve opportunistically had with some of them.

Current goals for the books:

  • Accessible introduction to EA concepts

  • Relevant to our work (i.e. technology focused)

  • Attention grabbing, likely to be chosen off the shelf

    • My coworkers are mostly early/​mid career business and technology types

    • Most are 21-35 years old, have an undergrad or MBA as their highest level of education, and are high earners

    • Those that I know well have limited political/​ethical/​social engagement or identity but are slightly left leaning

EA and EA adjacent books I plan on adding:

  • The Alignment Problem

  • Doing Good Better

  • The Precipice

  • The Scout Mindset

  • 80,000 hours

  • MIT Press Essential Knowledge: AI Ethics

  • Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer

  • The Life you Can Save by Peter Singer

  • Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty with Arthur Goldhammer

  • Robot Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh

Technology and Business books, many were requested by colleagues/​ managers (I will not be able to include all of these):

  • Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore

  • Competitive Strategy by By Michael E Porter

  • Inside the Tornado by Geoffrey Moore

  • The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

  • Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

  • The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim

  • The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim

  • Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan

  • Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

  • High Output Management by Andy Grove

  • 7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer

  • Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor

  • The Outsiders by Thorndike

  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel

  • Idea Factory by Jon Gertner

  • Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Martinez

  • Machine Learning, Revised And Updated Edition by Ethem Alpaydın

  • Recommendation Engines by Michael Schrage

  • Algorithms by Panos Louridas

  • Spatial Computing by Shashi Shekhar and Pamela Vold

  • Virtual Reality by Samuel Greengard

  • Deep Learning by John D. Kelleher

  • Data Science by John D. Kelleher and Brendan Tierney

  • Computing: A Concise History by Paul E. Ceruzzi

  • Cloud Computing by Nayan B. Ruparelia

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion books:

  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

  • Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People—Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald

  • The People’s History of the United States

  • The 1619 Project

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis

  • Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks

  • We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights

  • How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

  • As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

  • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States ReVisioning American History by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • ‘A Queer History of the United States for Young People’ by Michael Bronski
    Michael Bronski

  • Whiteness by Martin Lund

  • Gender(s) by Kathryn Bond Stockton