Recommended Reading

Here is a list of good marketing, business, strategy, and biographical books worth reading that can help you grow and succeed in your business endeavors. This list is constantly updated and expanded.

Last updated: January 2025

Leadership | Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Biographies | Writing | Copywriting

Leadership

yellow cover for What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith

image of The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

book cover of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Blue Ocean book cover

book cover of Start with Why

book cover of The One Thing

book cover of Find your Why

book cover of Blue Ocean Shift

book cover of Good to Great

book cover of Zero to One

image of Zilch by Nancy Lublin

Entrepreneurship

Choose Yourself book cover

book cover of The Power of Why

book cover of The Lean Startup

book cover of The Power of Habit

book cover of The Four Hour Work Week

book cover of Checklist Manifesto

book cover of David and Goliath

book cover of the Obstacle is the Way

book cover of Big Magic

book cover of Real Artists Don't Starve

Stand Out book cover

book cover of Barking up the Wrong Tree

book cover of Never Split the Difference

book cover of So Good They Can't Ignore You

Think Again book cover

Deep Work book cover

War of Art book cover

book cover of Creativity Inc

Marketing

Power of Persuasion book cover

Trust Me I'm Lying book cover

Growth Hacker book cover

Drunk Tank Pink book cover

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook book cover

Influence book cover

Unlabel book cover

To Sell is Human book cover

The Perennial Seller book cover

Superfans book cover

Biographies

Brandon biography book cover

Titan biography book cover

Steve Jobs biography book cover

Shoe Dog book cover

Writing

On Writing book cover

How to Be a Travel Writer book cover

Follow the Story book cover

Story by Robert McKee book cover

Save the Cat book cover

The Writer's Journey book cover

Steering the Craft book cover

Copywriting

Joseph Sugarman copywriting book cover

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