""The Overstory," by Richard Powers. It's a wonderful example of how great storytelling can help build understanding and empathy. Original and profound."
""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."
"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."
