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Best Business Books

70 books, including The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Start with Why and Influence.

Category

Industry

70 books

No. 1

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

Nonfiction

No. 2

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

Psychology

No. 3

Influence

Robert B. Cialdini, PhD

Nonfiction

No. 4

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Nonfiction

No. 5

Good to Great

Jim Collins

Nonfiction

No. 7

The E-Myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber

Business & management

No. 8

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Nonfiction

No. 9

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

Money & investing

No. 10

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

Nonfiction

No. 11

Built to Last

Jim Collins

Self-improvement

No. 12

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

Psychology

No. 13

The ONE Thing

Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

Psychology

No. 14

Essentialism

Greg McKeown

Business & management

No. 15

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Nonfiction

No. 16

Profit First

Mike Michalowicz

Money & investing

No. 17

Principles

Ray Dalio

Nonfiction

No. 18

Building a StoryBrand

Donald Miller

Business & management

No. 19

Traction

Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares

Technology

No. 20

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Al Ries

Psychology

No. 21

Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull

Biography & memoir

No. 22

Tools of Titans

Tim Ferriss

Business & management

No. 23

The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker

Economics & politics

No. 24

Measure What Matters

John Doerr

Technology

No. 25

Radical Candor

Kim Scott

Business & management

No. 26

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

Business & management

No. 27

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

Philosophy

No. 28

Everything is Figureoutable

Marie Forleo

Self-improvement

No. 29

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey A. Moore

Business & management

No. 30

Lost and Founder

Rand Fishkin

Business & management

No. 31

This is Marketing

Seth Godin

Business & management