Best Books for Entrepreneurs
1. 
Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million
by:
Cliff Lerner
4.16 avg rating — 923 ratings 
5. 
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by:
Peter Thiel
4.15 avg rating — 381,779 ratings 6. 
Elegant Entrepreneur: The Female Founders Guide to Starting & Growing Your First Company
by:
Danielle Tate
4.42 avg rating — 130 ratings 
9. 
How to Write Persuasive Emails: The 5-Step Blueprint for Writing Promotional Emails that Sell Your Products and Services
by:
Tammi Metzler
4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings 
11. 
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
by:
Shane Snow
3.88 avg rating — 6,551 ratings 12. 
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by:
Ashlee Vance
4.13 avg rating — 434,905 ratings 13. 
The Funding Is Out There! Access the Cash You Need to Impact Your Business 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
13. 
Cars, Coffee, and a Badass Ninja Toilet (Julia Karr, #1)
by:
K.C. Hilton
3.86 avg rating — 56 ratings 15. 
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
by:
Chris Anderson
3.82 avg rating — 29,932 ratings 
18. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating — 844,295 ratings 19. 
Make Your Mark: The Creative’s Guide to Building a Business With Impact
by:
Jocelyn K. Glei
3.97 avg rating — 1,320 ratings 
21. 
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
by:
Steve Blank
4.11 avg rating — 12,745 ratings 21. 
So You Want to Vlog?: How to start from scratch, find your voice & share your stories
by:
Andrea Valeria
4.02 avg rating — 80 ratings 21. 
Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business
by:
Maynard Webb
3.76 avg rating — 242 ratings 21. 
How to Raise a Founder With Heart: A Guide for Parents to Develop Your Child’s Problem-Solving Abilities
by:
Jim Marggraff
4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings 
21. 
Blow It Up: 21 Ways Your Startup Can Shake Up An Industry And Change The World
by:
David Lowe
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 21. 
George Washington, Entrepreneur: How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World
by:
John Berlau
3.71 avg rating — 136 ratings 21. 
Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World
by:
Chris Lowney
4.02 avg rating — 1,067 ratings 21. 
Making It in Real Estate: Starting Out as a Developer by John McNellis, Urban Land Institute
by:
John McNellis
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings 21. 
Think it. Pitch it. Sell it.: Choose to sell your own vision.
by:
Pierre Coombes
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 
33. 
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want 4.21 avg rating — 7,072 ratings
35. 
Kopf schlägt Kapital: Die ganz andere Art, ein Unternehmen zu gründen; von der Lust, ein Entrepreneur zu sein
by:
Günter Faltin
4.07 avg rating — 713 ratings 
37. 
The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
by:
Timothy Ferriss
3.94 avg rating — 11,028 ratings 38. 
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by:
Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating — 465,746 ratings 39. 
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
by:
Austin Kleon
3.96 avg rating — 324,499 ratings 40. 
Die Kunst des klugen Handelns. 52 Irrwege, die Sie besser anderen überlassen
by:
Rolf Dobelli
3.99 avg rating — 1,476 ratings 
43. 
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
by:
Lewis Hyde
3.91 avg rating — 3,109 ratings 44. 
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
by:
Austin Kleon
4.10 avg rating — 58,501 ratings 45. 
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
by:
Jocelyn K. Glei
3.95 avg rating — 26,224 ratings 46. 
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by:
Chip Heath
3.98 avg rating — 97,582 ratings 47. 
Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career (99U)
by:
Jocelyn K. Glei
3.97 avg rating — 2,819 ratings 
49. 
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques
by:
Michael Michalko
3.98 avg rating — 4,152 ratings 50. 
The Startup Playbook: Secrets of the Fastest-Growing Startups from Their Founding Entrepreneurs
by:
David S. Kidder
3.78 avg rating — 581 ratings 51. 
The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms
by:
Danielle LaPorte
4.06 avg rating — 4,652 ratings 
53. 
Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
by:
Ryan Holiday
3.77 avg rating — 11,013 ratings 54. 
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
by:
Shaun Usher
4.31 avg rating — 6,180 ratings 
57. 
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
by:
Amanda Palmer
3.92 avg rating — 36,425 ratings 58. 
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
by:
Lawrence Lessig
3.98 avg rating — 1,386 ratings 
60. 
It's Not All About Me: The Top Ten Techniques for Building Quick Rapport with Anyone
by:
Robin Dreeke
3.85 avg rating — 1,924 ratings 61. 
62. 
Decisive Moments in History: Twelve Historical Miniatures
by:
Stefan Zweig
4.24 avg rating — 15,886 ratings 63. 
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
by:
Avinash K. Dixit
3.80 avg rating — 4,262 ratings 64. 
66. 
Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After
by:
Miki Agrawal
3.42 avg rating — 1,481 ratings 