Product Manager book list

, or read your way to building better products.

This will be constantly updated as I read a really good book, or when people give me a good book to read. Have a suggestion? Let me know.

Reading

Product Leadership by Martin Ericksson

The Elon Musk biography

The Scribe Method

Top Reads, the best of the best of the best

Traction by Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares

Inspired by Marty Cagan

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

To Read, a stack-ranked list

1. Principles by Ray Dahlio
2. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
3. The Tao of Charlie Munger by David Clark
4. Confessions of An Advertising Man by David Ogilvy
5. High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
6. Supermensc by Shep Gordon
7. Just Enough Research by Erika Hall
8. The Role of Team and Task Characteristics in R&D Team Collaboration Problem Solving and Productivity by Robert Dailey
9. The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim and Kevin Behr
10. The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
11. Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
12. The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle
13. Bold by Peter Diamandis
14. The Hard Thing About Hard Things
15. Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin
16. Alive at Work by Daniel Cable
17. Good Strategy / Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
18. The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks
19. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
20. The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
21. Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
22. Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte
23. High Output Management by Andrew Grove
24. Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
25. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
26. Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology
27. Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull
28. Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout
29. Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
30. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
31. The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen
32. Elements of UX
33. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
34. Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock
35. The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World’s Greatest Teams by Sam Walker
36. Radical Candor by Kim Scott
37. The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dorner
38. Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank Barrett
39. Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen
40. Inside the Tornado by Geoffrey Moore
41. Meaningful: the Story of Ideas that Fly by Bernadette Jiwa
42. Quiet: The Power of Introverts by Susan Cain
43. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
44. The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton Christensen
45. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
46. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
47. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
48. Getting To Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury
49. How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
50. On Writing by Stephen King
51. Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
52. Getting Things Done by David Allen
53. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
54. 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness by Jim Rohn
55. Play Bigger by Christopher Lockhead
56. Niche Down by Christopher Lockhead
57. Nikola Tesla: Man Out of Time
58. The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton
59. Breathology: The Art of Conscious Breathing
60. Self promotion for introverts
61. Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
62. The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
63. Hidden Persuasion by Marc Andrews
64. Teamwork by Carl Larson and Frank LaFasto
65. Why Nations Fail by James Robinson
66. Through The Looking Glass by Guy Deutscher
67. The Culting of Brands
68. Triggers by Joe Sugarman
69. Hooked by Nir Eyal
70. The Nature Fix by Florence Williams
71. Predictably Irrational
72. Thinking Fast and Slow
73. Start by Jon Acuff
74. Finish by Jon Acuff
75. Loveability by Robert Holden
76. Good strategy Bad strategy by Richard Rummold
77. Peak performance by Brad Stokler
78. The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haight
79. Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove
80. High Output Management by Andy Grove
81. Change by Design by Tim Brown
82. User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton
83. The Power of Customer Misbehavior by Mike Fisher
84. The Right It by Alberto Suvito
85. Seductive Interaction Design by Stephen Anderson
86. Something Really New by Denis Hauptly

Have Read

• The Lean Startup Book by Eric Ries
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• The Startup Owners Manual by Steve Blank & Bob Dorf
• Influence by Robert Cialdini
• Presuasion by Robert Cialdini
• Imagine by Jonah Lehrer
• Traction by Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares
• The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
• Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker
• Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger (a biography)
• Hypergrowth by David Cancel
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
• The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
• Lean UX
• Sprint by Jake Knapp
• Hooked by Nir Eyal

Couldn’t Finish

• The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone
• Getting Things Done by David Allen