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Read the books most recommended by indie hackers 📚
Being an indie entrepreneur can be hard, with lots of decisions to make on all sorts of topics. Fortunately, there is a book that covers almost everything.
On each episode of my podcast, Indie Bites, I ask my guest to recommend a book they think indie hackers would find useful, interesting or just enjoy. I have curated them all here.
Book Title | Author | Buy | Recomended by (link to Indie Bites) |
---|---|---|---|
Alex Hormozi | |||
Steven Covey | |||
Scott Lilienfield | |||
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |||
N/A | |||
Derek Sivers | |||
James Clear | |||
Nathan Barry | |||
Kathy Sierra | |||
W. Chan Kim | |||
John Warrillow | |||
Isabel Wilkerson | |||
George Crile | |||
Robert Martin | |||
Paul Jarvis | Brett Williams, James McKinven | ||
Cal Newport | |||
Michele Hansen | |||
Michael Bungay Stanier | |||
Kate Raworth | |||
Michael Gerber | |||
Adam J. Sulkowski | |||
Jocko Willink | |||
Peter Kazanjy | |||
Oliver Burkeman | |||
Andrew Gazdecki | |||
Nick Bilton | |||
Derek Sivers | |||
Yevgeniy Brikman | |||
Nir Eyal | |||
Felix Dennis | Sam Parr, My Dad | ||
Dale Carnegie | |||
Robert Cialdini | |||
Intercom | |||
Isaac Asimov | |||
Peter Buffett | |||
Adii Pienaar | |||
William Golding | |||
Kamal Ravikant | |||
Dan Davies | |||
Viktor Frankl | |||
Carol Dweck | |||
April Dunford | |||
Jessica Abel | |||
Eckhart Tolle | |||
Dan Ariely | |||
Mike Michalowicz | |||
Kim Scott | |||
David Epstein | |||
Frederic Laloux | |||
DHH, Jason Fried | |||
Yuval Noah Harari | |||
Phil Knight | |||
Jake Knapp | |||
Rob Walling | |||
Austin Kleon | Jack McDade, James McKinven | ||
Gary Vaynerchuk | |||
Rick Rubin | |||
Donald Norman | |||
Arvid Kahl | James McKinven | ||
Sherry Walling | |||
Zac Bissonnette | |||
Matt Mochary | |||
Ben Horowitz | |||
Kyleigh Smith | |||
Jim McKelvey | |||
Pat Dorsey | |||
Julie Zhou | |||
Rob Fitzpatrick | |||
Michael Lewis | |||
Ryan Holiday | |||
Morgan Housel | |||
Daniel Kahneman | |||
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares | |||
Michael Singer | |||
Ben Horowitz | |||
Dan Sullivan | |||
Matthew Walker | |||
Emily Bronte | |||
Peter Thiel | |||
Arvid Kahl |
If you think I’m missing a book, think one should be added to the “must read” list or have some suggestions on how I can improve the categorisation, let me know here.
All links are Amazon affiliate links, so if you buy them through the site I earn a small percentage.
This site is made by James McKinven, creator of the Indie Bites podcast, using Notion + Super and without AI assistance.