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Best Startup Books

37 books, including The Lean Startup, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and Zero to One.

Category

Industry

37 books

No. 1

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

Nonfiction

No. 2

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

Nonfiction

No. 3

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Nonfiction

No. 4

Hooked

Nir Eyal & Ryan Hoover

Design

No. 5

The Startup Owner's Manual

Steve Blank

Business & management

No. 6

Founders at Work

Jessica Livingston

Technology

No. 7

The 4-Hour Workweek

Tim Ferriss

Business & management

No. 8

The $100 Startup

Chris Guillebeau

Self-improvement

No. 9

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

Nonfiction

No. 10

Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull

Biography & memoir

No. 11

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey A. Moore

Business & management

No. 12

Good to Great

Jim Collins

Nonfiction

No. 13

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

Psychology

No. 14

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction

No. 15

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Steve Blank

Business & management

No. 16

Rework

David Heinemeier Hansson

Technology

No. 17

Traction

Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares

Technology

No. 18

The E-Myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber

Business & management

No. 19

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande

Business & management

No. 20

Venture Deals

Brad Feld

Money & investing

No. 21

Tools of Titans

Tim Ferriss

Business & management

No. 22

The Art of the Start 2.0

Guy Kawasaki

Self-improvement

No. 23

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

Psychology

No. 24

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

Self-improvement

No. 25

The Founder's Dilemmas

Noam Wasserman

Business & management

No. 26

High Output Management

Andrew Grove

Nonfiction

No. 27

Who

Geoff Smart

Business & management

No. 28

Influence

Robert B. Cialdini, PhD

Nonfiction

No. 29

Lean Analytics

Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz

Technology

No. 30

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Nonfiction