In order of personal preference:<p>1) The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, by Randall Stross<p>2) The Founder's Dilemmas, by Noam Wasserman<p>3) The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz<p>4) Zero to One: Notes on Startups, by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters<p>5) Venture Deals, by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson (I haven't read, but heard good things about it)<p>ps: title is missing "ASK HN".