It&#x27;s definitely not that there are too few female authors. There are lots of female authors, and they&#x27;re well publicized.<p>Rather, I think the issue is that with just a few exceptions, this is exactly the book list you&#x27;d expect from a cohort of 25-35 year old startup founders --- batteries, Elon Musk, data science, the energy industry, The Martian (really?), and business history. These are topics with, let&#x27;s just say, a particular demographic concentration.<p>I physically winced when I saw the Wodehouse recommendation.<p>Some possible recommendations, if we&#x27;re going to stick with &quot;relevant to HN readers&quot;:<p>* Annie Jacobson&#x27;s DARPA book, The Pentagon&#x27;s Brain<p>* the Brene Brown book on mentally overcoming adversity, which might complement Nonviolent Communication (and might also be a more humane recommendation than David Brooks)<p>* Between You And Me (more writing books, please! Also maybe Mary Karr&#x27;s book on memoirs, though I haven&#x27;t read it and am not a Karr fan)