Best Business Books

Best Business Books

Looking for good business books? This is my list of the best business books of all-time. If you only have time to read one or two books, I recommend looking at the Top 10 Business Books section below.
Further down the page, you’ll find more business book recommendations. Many of these books are fantastic as well. I try to carefully curate all of my reading lists and you can be sure that any business book on this page is worth your time. Click the links below to jump to a specific category or scroll down to browse them all.

1. Top 10 Business Books
2. Best Business Biographies
3. Best Decision-Making Books
4. Best Entrepreneurship Books
5. Best Finance Books
6. Best Leadership Books
7. Best Management Books
8. Best Marketing Books
9. Best Productivity Books
10. Best Sales Books
11. Best Strategy Books
12. Best Success Books

The Top 10 Business Books

Not sure where to start? These top business books are essential reading.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert Cialdini
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
by Michael Gerber
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Fooled by Randomness
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Breakthrough Advertising
by Eugene Schwartz
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Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!
by Greg Crabtree
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
by Al Ries and Jack Trout
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The Power of Full Engagement
by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
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Business Adventures
by John Brooks
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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
by Marshall Goldsmith
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Best Business Biographies

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
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The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
by Andrew Carnegie
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
by Michael Lewis
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Not Fade Away
by Laurence Shames and Peter Barton
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Bossy Pants
by Tina Fey
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Looking for more great biographies? Browse my full list of the best biographies and memoirs.

Best Decision-Making Books

Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
by Charles T. Munger
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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
by Peter Bevelin
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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert Cialdini
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Market
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard Thaler
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
by Nir Eyal
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The Power of Fifty Bits
by Bob Nease
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Want more good books on psychology? Browse my full list of the best psychology books.

Best Entrepreneurship Books

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
by Michael Gerber
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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Timothy Ferriss
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The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
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The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime.
by MJ DeMarco
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Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity
by Hugh MacLeod
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Best Finance Books

The Art of Profitability
by Adrian Slywotzky
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Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential
by Greg Crabtree
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Best Leadership Books

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
by Marshall Goldsmith
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization
by John Wooden
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
by Simon Sinek
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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
by Seth Godin
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
by Patrick Lencioni
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Best Management Books

First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
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The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management
by Peter Drucker
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu Goldratt
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Best Marketing Books

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!
by Al Ries and Jack Trout
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Diet
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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Best Productivity Books

The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
by Greg McKeown
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The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
by Richard Koch
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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
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Best Sales Books

Breakthrough Advertising
by Eugene Schwartz
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SPIN Selling
by Neil Rackham
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The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies
by Chet Holmes
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Best Strategy Books

The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne
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Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
by G. Richard Shell
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Best Success Books

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
by John Brooks
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Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel
by Mohsin Hamid
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