Scott Galloway
Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster, Professor
Scott Galloway is an American entrepreneur and author who has taught marketing at NYU Stern since 2002 and co-hosted the Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher since 2018. His books include The Four (2017) and Notes on Being a Man (2025).
Scott Galloway's 47 Book Recommendations
- The Anxious Generation: “Jonathan Haidt is a role model of mine. His unique insights into societal issues are not just thought-provoking but transformative.”
- The Way of the Champion: Pain, Persistence, and the Path Forward: “This book is a guide to having a winning mindset. I recommend this book to people looking for tangible advice to grow personally and professionally.”
- Thirst: “I am deeply inspired by his journey and how he overcame past mistakes to find a new purpose.”
- Thinking, Fast and Slow: “Professor Kahneman’s ideologies on decision-making have helped me in business and my personal life.”
- The Psychology of Money: “This book is a classic must-read about the why behind wealth. ... I wish I had this book 30 years ago when I was much younger and made a lot of bad financial decisions myself.”
- The Winds of War: “I read my first kind of real novel when I was in high school and it's not that dramatic. I read a book by Herman Wook called the “Winds of War.” ... it just sort of got me thinking about things I had never thought about and sort of changed, got me interested in history, got me interested in war history.”
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI: “I like Yuval Noah Harari. I like that stuff. I'm reading Nexus right now.”
- On Writing: “So, I just reread a wonderful book, it’s pedestrian, Stephen King, On Writing. ... I think that guy is such a genius, and he talks about the craft of writing.”
- The Elements of Style: “Along those lines, next to my bed is Strunk and White, Elements of Style. ... So, I went back to Strunk and White and I'm like, "Okay, I gotta get my grammar act together."”
- Shoe Dog: “About the best business book I'd read in a while, it's a little bit older now, but I just read it, was Shoe Dog by Phil Knight.”
- The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip: “Jensen Huang is smarter than the rest of us. He had the vision to see before anyone else that AI is the transformative technology of our time and the business chops to capitalize. Stephen Witt's up-close account of Nvidia's rise is an essential introduction to the future we are all going to be living in.”
- The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity: “The stupid are not only destructive to themselves, but destructive to society. Highly recommend the book \"The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity\" by Carlo Cipolla (not just a matter of IQ) #January6th”
- Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It: “@LisaBritton If you want to go deep, and substantive, on the topic @RichardvReeves book is the seminal work.”
- Never Enough: “Have a galley of this book & it's something every parent should read — out in August by @wallacejennieb”
- The End of Reality: “Great book on how 4 billionaires — Thiel, Andreessen, Musk, Zuckerberg — are creating a world where “nothing is true and all is spectacle\"”
- Winner Sells All: “New book by Jason @DelRey about Amazon & Walmart, how they've transformed the way we shop, and the billions of dollars at stake. Great stories about Bezos.”
- Power Failure: “Hey @karaswisher, the @ft and @nytimes loves our friend's (@WilliamCohan) book--Power Failure.”
- You Should Smile More: “Good book on how to move past gender bias at work, out this week”
- The Trip Journal: “Good book by @RonanDLevy on #psychedelics, out today”
- Launching Financial Grownups: “Good book by @bobbirebell on raising financially literate kids”
- After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul: “Great book by @trippmickle, #Apple reporter at @nytimes A page-turner that would interest creatives, business managers & anyone who has an iPhone”
- Arriving Today: “Great speaking to @mims @WSJ on @PivotPod about his new book, Arriving Today, about the supply chain — the best-timed book in recent history. Otherwise tedious processes are described in a fascinating way:”
- The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook: “51% of Americans believe in at least one conspiracy theory #facepalm @nfergus ”The Tower and the Square” (great book)”
- The Cult of We: “Great book abt #WeWork — out this month”
- Staying Online: “Timely new book by @NYUStern colleague Robert Ubell about college education online 👉”
- The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life: “Great book — it’s rare that someone can tell a first-person account of the earliest Dylan concerts, the civil rights movement, JFK’s assassination, MLK’s rallies, the Beatles’ first arrival in America Jonathan is also the author of \"Move Fast & Break Things\" about #Facebook”
- Remarkable Retail: How to Win and Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption: “Great book if you’re in retail - by @StevenPDennis”
- Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain: “\"For your whole life, outside of your awareness, you make deposits of a sort into other people’s body budgets, as well as withdrawals, and others do the same for you.\" @LFeldmanBarrett Great new book:”
- Monopolies Suck: “Great book — helps regular people understand how monopolies make their lives harder every day so they can power real change”
- Un-Trumping America: ““The GOP has only 1 principle & that principle is winning. Playing the game against people who will do anything to win while you adhere to the rules is a losing proposition.” great book—Dem strategies for a new era @danpfeiffer”
- The Hype Machine: “Great book, congrats, Sinan”
- The Sharing Economy: “Spoke to @NYUStern colleague Arun Sundararajan @digitalarun, author of \"The Sharing Economy\" (great book) ... about ... the sharing economy, state of play #Uber #AB5 Plus: big news that got lost, #Google disrupting education thru BA-equiv certificates”
- In Defense of Elitism: “Great/funny (audio)book @thejoelstein”
- Leading Sustainably: “Great book by Strategy Sprint student @tristabridges — what traditional businesses can learn from mission-driven companies”
- Selling Naked: “Good book by @JesseHorwitz — incl thoughts from yours truly on DTC marketing”
- Digital Darwinism: “Great book by the super original @tomfgoodwin”
- Move Fast and Break Things: “Reading @JonathanTaplin's Move Fast & Break Things. Insightful, passionate & prescient.”
- The Coddling of the American Mind: “Great book by colleague @JonHaidt on parenting, \"safetyism,\" raising strong vs. fragile children, and openness to ideas on college campuses. Bonus: basics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helpful in daily life.”
- The Cyber Effect: “My best books of 2019 @JonathanTaplin Move Fast & Break Things @JonHaidt Coddling of the American Mind @thejoelstein Defense of Elitism @maryCyPsy Cyber Effect @MikeIsaac Super Pumped”
- Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber: “My best books of 2019 @JonathanTaplin Move Fast & Break Things @JonHaidt Coddling of the American Mind @thejoelstein Defense of Elitism @maryCyPsy Cyber Effect @MikeIsaac Super Pumped”
- One Hundred Years of Solitude: “@NoahBraxMarsh A 100 years of solitude,,,great book. Read it in Spanish class in the 11th grade.”
- Homo Deus: “Great (and sobering) book about our future, especially if big tech continues unchecked. “One central project will be to protect humankind & the planet as a whole from the dangers inherent in our own power” @harari_yuval”
- Sapiens: “@Jed86Sam @ibra_hj Read Sapiens”
- The Righteous Mind: “We derive our morality from the people around us. (Also a thesis of colleague @JonHaidt's prescient book The Righteous Mind.)”
- Quirky: “Great book by @NYUStern colleague @mschilli1 about traits of famous inventors (Steve Jobs, Einstein, Tesla) and how to spot those traits in yourself or your kids”
- Disrupt: “@lukegwilliams Tx Luke, enjoying your book (Disrupt):”
- Adventures of a Bystander: “I read Observations of a Bystander by Peter Drucker.”