15 Reed Hastings Recommended books
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Reed Hastings book recommendations - 15 favorite reads. The fullest Reed Hastings reading list in 2021!
We've selected all the books Reed Hastings has ever recommended in different interviews all over the Internet. It is the fullest compilation of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings favorite books and some of them are in the process of Netflix adaptation.
Netflix's Reed Hastings is an avid reader, because he wants to find the best stories to adapt later on Netflix and share it with the world.
Check out our list of 15 Reed Hastings book recommendations updated and relevant in 2021!
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Shoe Dog
What do you plan to read next?“Shoe Dog,” the memoir by Phil Knight, who created Nike — and yes, we’re also adapting it for Netflix.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Do you count any books as comfort reads or guilty pleasures?I’m not that sophisticated in my taste, I usually find what’s popular. I just read “Where the Crawdads Sing.” It was enjoyable but I didn’t find the ending credible — it was too over the top.
Hillbilly Elegy
What book would you most like to see turned into a movie or TV show that hasn’t already been adapted?I actually don’t know if “The Overstory,” so beautifully told, could be adapted visually. But here are two actual examples: “The Three-Body Problem,” which I mentioned and is incredibly ambitious, and “Hillbilly Elegy,” by J. D. Vance — which Ron Howard has directed and debuts on Netflix in November.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
What’s the best book that’s been made into a great movie?I’d have to go with Harry Potter. J. K. Rowling built a world filled with characters that thrilled audiences of all ages through multiple installments, and did not disappoint its fans when it was adapted into a film series that still endures. It’s a phenomenon in both mediums.
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Sapiens
Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most?One that stands out is Yuval Noah Harari. He’s unconventional yet concerns himself with the biggest questions about life and technology and society, pushing our understanding of the dramas yet to unfold.
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Typhoon and Other Tales
Are there any classic novels that you only recently read for the first time?“Typhoon and Other Tales,” by Joseph Conrad. “Typhoon” is very much of its time — the story of an uninspiring merchant ship captain and his crew facing a storm in the South China Sea. But it’s also about duty and the ambiguous morality of staying the course in a tough situation. Ironically, at the end of this near-catastrophe, the captain says, “There are things you find nothing about in books.”
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The Overstory: A Novel
What’s the last great book you read?“The Overstory,” by Richard Powers. It’s a wonderful example of how great storytelling can help build understanding and empathy. Original and profound. I have to admit that my fiction reading has declined a lot in recent years so our family agreed we would all read together on vacation, and luckily “The Overstory” is one we chose.
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The Three-Body Problem
“The Three-Body Problem,” by Liu Cixin — a mind-bending masterful sci-fi epic. And full disclosure I’m mainly reading “Three-Body Problem” because we’re bringing it to Netflix with the showrunners who made “Game of Thrones.”
Caste
What books are on your night stand?“Caste,” by Isabel Wilkerson, which is devastating and important and regrettably timely.
7 Powers
The forces of competition are just incredibly strong. Everyone is trying to eat your lunch, and if you don’t read 7 Powers you’re going to die a lot sooner.
Beyond Entrepreneurship
What’s your favorite book no one else has heard of?Probably “Beyond Entrepreneurship,” by Jim Collins and William C. Lazier. It’s not nearly as well known as Collins’s “Good to Great” or “Built to Last” in the pantheon of influential business books. But it came out in the early 1990s, right around the time I was starting my first company, Pure Software. It had a huge influence on how I thought about that business and, later, what I aspired to create at Netflix.
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Tools and Weapons
Coming from an industry driven by disruption, it’s refreshing to read Brad Smith’s call for the tech sector to assume more responsibility.
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