The books people recommended

2024-09-15 · 126 points · 74 comments · 22 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

10
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
10 here · 28 all-time · #208 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 4,371 ratings on Amazon
4
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
4 here · 56 all-time · #68 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 17,985 ratings on Amazon
3
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
3 here · 56 all-time · #67 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 15,933 ratings on Amazon
3
Traction
Gabriel Weinberg
3 here · 30 all-time · #189 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2,092 ratings on Amazon
3
The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
3 here · 24 all-time · #244 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 13,028 ratings on Amazon
3The Startup Owner's Manual
The Startup Owner's Manual
Steve Blank
3 here · 10 all-time · #669 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 915 ratings on Amazon
2
Deep Work
Cal Newport
2 here · 72 all-time · #46 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,713 ratings on Amazon
2
Getting Real
37 Signals
2 here · 20 all-time · #310 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 281 ratings on Amazon
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Peter Thiel
2 here · 3 all-time · #2471 overall
1
Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1 here · 110 all-time · #19 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 8,277 ratings on Amazon
1
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1 here · 100 all-time · #29 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,430 ratings on Amazon
1
Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
1 here · 89 all-time · #37 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 40,093 ratings on Amazon
1
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
1 here · 52 all-time · #79 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 63,714 ratings on Amazon
1
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1 here · 50 all-time · #85 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,186 ratings on Amazon
1
The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank
1 here · 36 all-time · #137 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 673 ratings on Amazon
1
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
1 here · 34 all-time · #152 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 8,164 ratings on Amazon
1The Psychology of Money
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
1 here · 9 all-time · #705 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 74,322 ratings on Amazon
1Make: Electronics
Make: Electronics
Charles Platt
1 here · 8 all-time · #792 overall
1High Growth Handbook
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
1 here · 6 all-time · #1194 overall
1Running Lean
Running Lean
Ash Maurya
1 here · 5 all-time · #1414 overall
1A New Economics
A New Economics
W. Edwards Deming
1 here · 3 all-time · #2088 overall
1Building a Storybrand
Building a Storybrand
Donald Miller
1 here · 3 all-time · #2139 overall