10 MUST Reads for Product Managers

Cem Kilicli
Productization
Published in
2 min readDec 8, 2018

I think it will be a nice idea to put down a must-read list for Product Managers. I have put down the list of books that have the most effect on my career. I think these books are masterpieces on how to solve problems that Product Managers face on their day to day jobs.

  1. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses — Eric Ries
  2. Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead Hardcover — Laszlo Bock
  3. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products — Nir Eyal
  4. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers — Alexander Osterwalder
  5. The Design Thinking Playbook: Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses and Ecosystems — Michael Lewrick
  6. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Hardcover — Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
  7. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time — Jeff Sutherland
  8. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants — Malcolm Gladwell
  9. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win — Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford, Chris Ruen
  10. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers —Ben Horowitz

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