Hi everyone, I wish I was clever enough to have orchestrated all this, but in fact am not. Very nice of Chris to include me in his list.
Though I will say that this list is missing a few good books:
22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
48 Laws of Power
Antifragile
The Fish That Ate the Whale
Wikinomics
Contagious
The Pirate's Dilemma
and I think PG's book of essays is worth reading for any founder as well