52 Best Growth Hacking Books of All Time

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses book cover1

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Eric Ries

5.0
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned profes
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products book cover2

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

5.0
How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?
Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful com
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion book cover3

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

5.0
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future book cover4

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel

5.0
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation,
Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising book cover5

Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising

Ryan Holiday

4.9
A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing and Advertising

A new generation of megabrands like Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb, and Twitter haven’t spent a dime on traditional marketing. No press releases, no TV commercials, no billboards. Instead, they rely on a new strategy—growth hacking—to reach many more people despite modest marketing budgets. Growth hackers have thrown out the old playbook and replac
The 48 Laws of Power book cover6

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

4.9
This amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive book synthesizes the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz with the historical legacies of statesmen, warriors, seducers, and con men throughout the ages.
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success book cover7

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

Sean Ellis, Morgan Brown

4.8
The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond.

It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Airbnb was the best-kept secret of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pinterest was a niche web site frequented only by bakers and crafters, LinkedIn was an exclusive network for C-suite executives and top-level
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Growth Hacking: Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret

Raymond Fong, Chad Riddersen

4.8
This is an updated edition of ISBN10: 1619615312 (ISBN13: 9781619615311).

In Growth Hacking: Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret, growth consultants Raymond Fong and Chad Riddersen deconstruct the phenomenon used by Silicon Valley's fast growing tech elite, growth hacking. Raymond and Chad's framework, the ASP(TM), is an easy to understand blueprint that empowers any business to apply growth hacking.
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business book cover9

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg

4.8
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.

Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new produ
Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth book cover10

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

4.8
Two successful startup founders offer a comprehensive overview of the various ways startups can achieve strong, sustainable growth, and a guide to choosing the ones that will make the differencce.

Why do so many startups fail? According to entrepreneurs Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares, most failed startups don’t get off the ground not because of a bad product, but because they don’t have enough c
Contagious: Why Things Catch On book cover11

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Jonah Berger

4.8
New York Times bestseller and named Best Marketing Book of 2014 by the American Marketing Association

What makes things popular? Why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral?

If you said advertising, think again. People don't listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. But why d
Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing to 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million book cover12

Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing to 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million

Cliff Lerner

4.8

*Awarded 'Best Startup Book Of All Time' by Benzinga.com
*Awarded 'Top 5 Growth Hacking Book' by Entrepreneur Magazine

This compelling and inspiring narrative gives entrepreneurs a rare behind-the-scenes look inside a fast-growing startup that created the first online dating app and grew to 100 million users.

Explosive Growth combines lively and often hilarious storytelling, revealing genius growth

The Growth Hacking Book: Most Guarded Growth Marketing Secrets The Silicon Valley Giants Don't Want You To Know book cover13

The Growth Hacking Book: Most Guarded Growth Marketing Secrets The Silicon Valley Giants Don't Want You To Know

Parul Agrawal, Rohan Chaubey, et al.

4.8

For many entrepreneurs, the most confounding aspect of business is growth. How do you generate enough business to get started? And, later, how do you manage the many complex changes that accompany growth? How do you keep innovating to expand your business in new directions? Fast Company’s The Small Business Guide to Growth Hacking, presented by OPEN Forum from American Express OPEN, explores these
Rework book cover14

Rework

Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

4.8
Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the c
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability book cover15

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug

4.8
Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design.

In this 3rd edition, Steve returns with fresh perspective to reexamine the principles that made Don’t Make Me Think a classic-–with updated examples and a new chapter on mobile usabil
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 book cover16

Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves

4.7
"Emotional Intelligence 2.0 succinctly explains how to deal with emotions creatively and employ our intelligence in a beneficial way."
--THE DALAI LAMA

For the first time ever in a book, TalentSmart's revolutionary program helps people identify their EQ skills, build these skills into strengths, and enjoy consistent performance in the pursuit of important life objectives. The book contains proven st
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success book cover17

Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

Shane Snow

4.7
Entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow (Wired, Fast Company, The New Yorker, and cofounder of Contently) analyzes the lives of people and companies that do incredible things in implausibly short time.

How do some startups go from zero to billions in mere months? How did Alexander the Great, YouTube tycoon Michelle Phan, and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon climb to the top in less time than it takes
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster book cover18

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz

4.7
Whether you’re a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an intrapreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest challenge is creating a product people actually want. Lean Analytics steers you in the right direction.

This book shows you how to validate your initial idea, find the right customers, decide what to build, how to monetize your business, and how to spread the word. Pa
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk book cover19

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk

Al Ries

4.7
World-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors Al Ries and Jack Trout reveal 22 laws of marketing, with hundreds of examples that illustrate their success, in this innovative and sensible guide to marketing. Each law is described in detail and backed up by numerous examples of what worked and what didn't in the international marketplace.
Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions book cover20

Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

Gayle Laakmann McDowell

4.7
I am not a recruiter. I am a software engineer. And as such, I know what it's like to be asked to whip up brilliant algorithms on the spot and then write flawless code on a whiteboard. I've been through this as a candidate and as an interviewer.

Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition is here to help you through this process, teaching you what you need to know and enabling you to perform at your
Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Creating a Mass Movement of People Who Will Pay for Your Advice book cover21

Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Creating a Mass Movement of People Who Will Pay for Your Advice

Russell Brunson, Robert Kiyosaki

4.7
Your message has the ability to change someone's life. The impact that the right message can have on someone at the right time in their life is immeasurable. It could help to save marriages, repair families, change someone's health, grow a company or more...
But only if you know how to get it into the hands of the people whose lives you have been called to change. Expert Secrets will put your mess
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works book cover22

Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works

Ash Maurya

4.7
We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We’re building more products than ever before, but most of them fail—not because we can’t complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product.

What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That’s the promise of Running Lean.

In
Startup Growth Engines: Case Studies of How Today's Most Successful Startups Unlock Extraordinary Growth book cover23

Startup Growth Engines: Case Studies of How Today's Most Successful Startups Unlock Extraordinary Growth

Sean Ellis and Morgan Brow

4.7
Today's fastest growing startups all share one thing in common: a new approach to how they grow. Using new a way of marketing, called growth hacking, these startups have grown to millions of users and created billions of dollars in value, all without using the traditional marketing playbook.

So how have companies like Uber, Square, Snapchat, Evernote, Hubspot, Github and Yelp grown? See for yourse
Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life book cover24

Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life

Gary John Bishop

4.7
New York Times Bestseller

Joining the ranks of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, You Are a Badas*, and F*ck Feelings comes this refreshing, BS-free, self-empowerment guide that offers an honest, no-nonsense, tough-love approach to help you move past self-imposed limitations.

Are you tired of feeling fu*ked up? If you are, Gary John Bishop has the answ
Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves book cover25

Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves

Adam Penenberg

4.7
Here's something you may not know about today's Internet. Simply by designing your product the right way, you can build a flourishing business from scratch. No advertising or marketing budget, no need for a sales force, and venture capitalists will flock to throw money at you. Many of the most successful Web 2.0 companies, including MySpace, YouTube, eBay, and rising stars like Twitter and Flickr,
Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams book cover26

Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams

Gabrielle Bernstein

4.7
Ready to take the next step toward living in alignment with the Universe? The #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back shows you how.

In Super Attractor, Gabrielle Bernstein lays out the essential steps for living in alignment with the Universe--more fully than you've ever done before.

"I've always known that there is a nonphysical presence beyond my visible sight," Gabby
Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us about Love and Life book cover27

Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us about Love and Life

don Jose Ruiz

4.7
For generation after generation, Toltec shamans have passed down their wisdom through teaching stories. The purpose of these stories is to implant a seed of knowledge in the mind of the listener, where it can ultimately sprout and blossom into a new and better way of life.

In The Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us About Love and Life, Toltec shaman and master storyteller d
Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series) book cover28

Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series)

Connie Hamilton

4.7
Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com book cover29

Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com

Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler

4.7
Called "The Sales Bible of Silicon Valley"...discover the sales specialization system and outbound sales process that, in just a few years, helped add $100 million in recurring revenue to Salesforce.com, almost doubling their enterprise growth...with zero cold calls. This is NOT just another book about how to cold call or close deals. This is an entirely new kind of sales system for CEOs, entrepre
The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler book cover30

The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler

Chris Eagle

4.7
No source code? No problem. With IDA Pro, you live in a source code-optional world. IDA can automatically analyze the millions of opcodes that make up an executable and present you with a disassembly. But at that point, your work is just beginning. With The IDA Pro Book, you'll learn how to turn that mountain of mnemonics into something you can actually use.

Hailed by the creator of IDA Pro as the
Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide book cover31

Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide

Austen Allred and Vin Clancy

4.7
100 days of growth book cover32

100 days of growth

Annie F. Downs

4.6
http://100daysofgrowth.com/
The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains book cover33

The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains

Robert H. Lustig

4.6
"Explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts."--David Perlmutter, MD, Author, #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain and Brain Maker

The New York Times-bestselling author of Fat Chance reveals the corporate scheme to sell pleasure, driving the international epidemic of addiction, depression, and chronic disease.

While researching the toxic and addictive properti
The Definitive Guide to Growth Hacking book cover34

The Definitive Guide to Growth Hacking

Kunal Relan

4.6
WHY DID WE WRITE THIS GUIDE?
There is a revolution taking place in the world of startup growth, and we wanted to help people understand this new phenomenon. Those who understand growth hacking will have a competitive advantage that is hard to overstate, and we wanted to provide a robust framework for thinking about it.

WHO IS THIS GUIDE FOR?
This guide is for entrepreneurs, founders, growth leads, or
TOP 101 Growth Hacks: The best growth hacking ideas that you can put into practice right away book cover35

TOP 101 Growth Hacks: The best growth hacking ideas that you can put into practice right away

Aladdin Happy

4.6
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The Growth Marketer's Playbook: A Strategic Guide to Growing a Business in Today's Digital World

Jim Huffman

4.6
Life Hacking Spiritual Disciplines book cover37

Life Hacking Spiritual Disciplines

Joe Fontenot

4.6
What does it take to establish a regular prayer time? Often, a crisis will do it. But what about the rest of the time–the time when life is good? This is when our prayer habits tend to wane.

In this book, Joe pulls from over 20 psychologists, neurologists, and behaviorists to describe exactly what it takes to create the habits and structure necessary to have a regular and dependable time with God.

Y
Write Better, Faster: How To Triple Your Writing Speed and Write More Every Day (Growth Hacking For Storytellers) (Volume 1) book cover38

Write Better, Faster: How To Triple Your Writing Speed and Write More Every Day (Growth Hacking For Storytellers) (Volume 1)

Monica Leonelle

4.6
Ready, Set, Growth hack: A beginners guide to growth hacking success book cover39

Ready, Set, Growth hack: A beginners guide to growth hacking success

Nader Sabry

4.6
A SHORTCUT TO 10X YOUR GROWTH, WELCOME TO READY, SET, GROWTH HACK.

After founding companies from start-to exit, Sabry has raised $120 Million mastering growth hacking over the past 25 years. Ready, Set, Growth hack is a powerful practical guide to help anyone with little or no knowledge 10x the growth of their organizations.

This book helps startups become unicorns, corporations become fortune 500s
El método Hacking Growth: Qué hacen compañias explosivas como Facebook, Airbnb y Walmart para ser líderes en el mercado/ Hacking Growth (Spanish Edition) book cover40

El método Hacking Growth: Qué hacen compañias explosivas como Facebook, Airbnb y Walmart para ser líderes en el mercado/ Hacking Growth (Spanish Edition)

Sean Ellis

4.6
Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days book cover41

Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days

Sir John Hargrave

4.6
Have you ever wished you could reprogram your brain, just as a hacker would a computer? In this 3-step guide to improving your mental habits—using plenty of clear “computer-related terms should resonate with tech-savvy readers, including those resistant to typical self-help fare” (Publishers Weekly)— learn to take charge of your mind and banish negative thoughts, habits, and anxiety—in just twenty
Hack Your Anxiety: How to Make Anxiety Work for You in Life, Love, and All That You Do book cover42

Hack Your Anxiety: How to Make Anxiety Work for You in Life, Love, and All That You Do

Alicia H. Clark and Jon Sternfeld

4.6
What if anxiety is not a monster to be tamed, but a resource to be tapped?

In this revolutionary book, Dr. Alicia Clark recognizes anxiety as the unsung hero in the path to success and happiness. It can become the motivating force that will lead to a better you, and The Anxiety Advantage aims to restore anxiety to its rightful place as a positive resource.

Weaving together modern neuroscience, case
Spikes: Growth Hacking Leadership book cover43

Spikes: Growth Hacking Leadership

Jason Schenker

4.6
Hacking Reality: Upgrade Your Life From the Inside Out book cover44

Hacking Reality: Upgrade Your Life From the Inside Out

Rob Nelson

4.6
Hacking Education: 10 Quick Fixes for Every School book cover45

Hacking Education: 10 Quick Fixes for Every School

Mark Barnes and Jennifer Gonzalez

4.6
Want to solve your biggest problems tomorrow?

You have problems, but you don't have time for a 5-year plan. You're tired of philosophy, research and piles of data. You want practical solutions that you can implement immediately. You don't need a committee or another meeting. You need Hackers-experienced educators who understand your school's problems and see quick fixes that may be so simple that t
Mind Hacking: Brain Hacking Techniques For Growth, Change Your Mindset By Reprogramming Your Subconscious book cover46

Mind Hacking: Brain Hacking Techniques For Growth, Change Your Mindset By Reprogramming Your Subconscious

George Walker

4.6
Entrepreneur Voices on Growth Hacking book cover47

Entrepreneur Voices on Growth Hacking

Inc. The Staff of Entrepreneur Media and Derek Lewis

4.6
With more than 500,000 businesses starting up every month, entrepreneurs need to learn how to market products and services quickly and across all channels in order to corner the market. This growth-focused edition of the Entrepreneur Voices series provides a compilation of editorial articles and hard-won advice from entrepreneurs who overcame their obstacles, pivoted their marketing, and left thei
Unstoppable: A 90-Day Plan to Biohack Your Mind and Body for Success book cover48

Unstoppable: A 90-Day Plan to Biohack Your Mind and Body for Success

Ben Angel

4.6
Unlock Your Potential. Become Unstoppable. Unable to overcome debilitating fatigue and depression, bestselling author and personal development expert Ben Angel set out on a ninety-day mission to find and conquer the root of his rut. The result of his journey is Unstoppable, a highly revealing book where Ben gives you a look into the world of nootropics, wearable devices, and nutrition and delivers
Growth Hacking - A How To Guide On Becoming A Growth Hacker book cover49

Growth Hacking - A How To Guide On Becoming A Growth Hacker

Jose Casanova, Joe Casanova, et al

4.5
The Growth Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy: 100 Proven Growth Hacks for the Digital Marketer book cover50

The Growth Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy: 100 Proven Growth Hacks for the Digital Marketer

Mark Hayes and Jeff Goldenberg

4.5
The Growth Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy is the ultimate compendium of growth hacks for the modern digital marketer, written by marketing veterans Jeff Goldenberg (Head of Growth at Borrowell and TechStars Mentor) and Mark Hayes (CEO of Rocketshp and founder of one of the world's first growth hacking agencies).

Are You Ready to Skyrocket Your Company's growth?

What You Will Learn

1. The Most Effectiv
The Principles of Cybersecurity And Hacking: 5 Books In 1- Cybersecurity and Hacking Series book cover51

The Principles of Cybersecurity And Hacking: 5 Books In 1- Cybersecurity and Hacking Series

Zach Webber

4.5
Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices book cover52

Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices

Christopher Locke

4.5
A Harvard Business Review Top-10 Business Book of 2001Gonzo Marketing is a knuckle-whitening ride to the place where social criticism, biting satire, and serious commerce meet--and where the outdated ideals of mass marketing and broadcast media are being left in the dust. Invoking the spirit of gonzo journalism, Locke rails against business practices that treat customers like cattle, and urges mar