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)
$100m Offers	Alex Hormozi	https://amzn.to/3QUkFVV	Kevon Cheung
7 Habits of Highly Effective People	Steven Covey	https://amzn.to/3SUpTUf	Jack Ellis
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology	Scott Lilienfield	https://amzn.to/49yzTZa	Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Antifragile	Nassim Nicholas Taleb	https://amzn.to/40GL4e7	Nick Fogle, Natalie Nagele, Daniel Vassallo
Any textbook in your field	N/A		Aaron Francis
Anything You Want	Derek Sivers	https://amzn.to/47pJuzu	Rosie Sherry, Rob Hope
Atomic Habits	James Clear	https://amzn.to/40vUTM1	Corey Haines, Val Hinov, Chris Frantz, David Wind, Will Goto, Tim Leland
Authority	Nathan Barry	https://amzn.to/3u8Vc38	Helen Ryles
Badass - Making Users Awesome	Kathy Sierra	https://amzn.to/47rnjZz	Matt Studdert
Blue Ocean Strategy	W. Chan Kim	https://amzn.to/3u3LyyE	Andy Cloke
Built to Sell	John Warrillow	https://amzn.to/40x5tlS	Mubashar Iqbal, Dom Monn
Caste	Isabel Wilkerson	https://amzn.to/49qTavz	Dru Riley
Charlie Wilson’s War	George Crile	https://amzn.to/40CibQs	Michele Hansen
Clean Code	Robert Martin	https://amzn.to/3QTAuwW	Che Sampat
Company of One	Paul Jarvis	https://amzn.to/3QUL1bk	Brett Williams, James McKinven
Deep Work	Cal Newport	https://amzn.to/47a5jDh	Pat Walls, Macgill Davis, Natalie Nagele, Jordan O’Connor
Deploy Empathy	Michele Hansen	https://amzn.eu/d/6m7rMTw	Rob Walling
Do More Great Work	Michael Bungay Stanier	https://amzn.to/47vTU0j	Marie Poulin
Doughnut Economics	Kate Raworth	https://amzn.to/3QCVC9H	Jonny White
E-Myth Revisited	Michael Gerber	https://amzn.to/3SCbagb	Mark Asquith
Extreme Entrepreneurship	Adam J. Sulkowski	https://amzn.to/3QVnQ0H	Josh Ho
Extreme Ownership	Jocko Willink	https://amzn.to/469m40m	Jack McDade
Founding Sales	Peter Kazanjy	https://amzn.to/3FSViOY	Rob Walling, Monica Lent
Four Thousand Weeks	Oliver Burkeman	https://amzn.to/3SIrlZx	Jonathan Bull
Getting Acquired	Andrew Gazdecki	https://amzn.to/47bUhOa	Damon Chen
Hatching Twitter	Nick Bilton	https://amzn.to/3QA0Tif	Ramy Khuffash
Hell Yeah or No	Derek Sivers	https://amzn.to/3QUVQdq	Kenneth Cassel
Hello, Startup	Yevgeniy Brikman	https://amzn.to/3MFHET1	Pierre De Wulf
Hooked	Nir Eyal	https://amzn.to/47vmCyK	Courtland Allen
How to Get Rich	Felix Dennis	https://amzn.to/47wxUTl	Sam Parr, My Dad
How to Win Friends and Influence People	Dale Carnegie	https://amzn.to/3QSqtjM	Jared Maddern, Jay Clouse
Influence	Robert Cialdini	https://amzn.to/3QTjYwZ	Charlie Ward
Intercom on Marketing	Intercom	https://www.intercom.com/resources/books/intercom-marketing	Mike Slaats, Marie Martens
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space	Isaac Asimov	https://amzn.to/49yH1Vq	Alex McCaw
Life Is What You Make It	Peter Buffett	https://amzn.to/3sxc1EA	Kevon Cheung
Life Profitability	Adii Pienaar	https://amzn.to/40B1oNl	Justin Jackson, Geoff Roberts
Lord of the Flies	William Golding	https://amzn.to/3MGRnbP	Blake Emal
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It	Kamal Ravikant	https://amzn.to/3QSeR0b	Danny Miranda
Lying for Money	Dan Davies	https://amzn.to/49tvQwZ	Andrew Kamphey
Mans Search for Meaning	Viktor Frankl	https://amzn.to/469SlUL	Harry Dry
Mindset	Carol Dweck	https://amzn.to/3FVyxK9	Pete Codes
Obviously Awesome	April Dunford	https://amzn.to/3udm4iz	Joe Masilotti
Out on the Wire	Jessica Abel	https://amzn.to/3sydUkf	Harry Morton
Power of Now	Eckhart Tolle	https://amzn.to/40zbEpo	Ch Daniel
Predictably Irrational	Dan Ariely	https://amzn.to/3SD68QK	Sahil Lavingia
Profit First	Mike Michalowicz	https://amzn.to/3Sz4NKD	Justin Jackson
Radical Candor	Kim Scott	https://amzn.to/49yEzhG	Matt Ronge
Range	David Epstein	https://amzn.to/40x8GSs	Baird Hall, Milly Tamati
Reinventing Organizations	Frederic Laloux	https://amzn.to/46doCKN	Geoff Roberts
ReWork	DHH, Jason Fried	https://amzn.to/3MAFynB	Tom Evans, Noah Bragg
Sapiens	Yuval Noah Harari	https://amzn.to/47xAicx	Courtland Allen, Dru Riley
Shoe Dog	Phil Knight	https://amzn.to/49wQZq8	Dianna Allen, James McKinven, Ben Stokes, Brian Casel, Sam King, Dan Fayle
Sprint	Jake Knapp	https://amzn.to/3SADX4O	Dom Monn
Start Small, Stay Small	Rob Walling	https://amzn.to/40C14hi	Dominik Sobe
Steal Like An Artist	Austin Kleon	https://amzn.to/3Qu1Loq	Jack McDade, James McKinven
Thank You Economy	Gary Vaynerchuk	https://amzn.to/47xooiN	Tom Ross
The Creative Act	Rick Rubin	https://amzn.to/49yGgeY	Ryan Gilbert
The Design of Everyday Things	Donald Norman	https://amzn.to/3Qu0mOG	Grey Baker
The Embedded Entrepreneur	Arvid Kahl	https://amzn.to/468wYDy	James McKinven
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together	Sherry Walling	https://amzn.to/3MWk3hc	Harvey Carpenter
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble	Zac Bissonnette	https://amzn.to/3swiVKa	Justin Duke
The Great CEO Within	Matt Mochary	https://amzn.to/3u8PoH0	Wil Klopp
The Hard Thing About Hard Things	Ben Horowitz	https://amzn.to/3sAYLP1	Spencer Fry, JR Farr
The Honest Guide to Indie Making	Kyleigh Smith	https://bagelsandgranola.gumroad.com/l/honest-guide-to-indie-making	Marie Ng
The Innovation Stack	Jim McKelvey	https://amzn.to/3QXYHm8	Jeremy Blalock
The Little Book That Builds Wealth	Pat Dorsey	https://amzn.to/479J8gz	Michele Hansen
The Making of a Manager	Julie Zhou	https://amzn.to/3FZSOhC	Matt Ronge
The Mom Test	Rob Fitzpatrick	https://amzn.to/3ucwnn7	Arvid Kahl, Derrick Reimer, Ben Orenstein, Colleen Schnettler
The New New Thing	Michael Lewis	https://amzn.to/3MzYC5u	Elston Baretto
The Perennial Seller	Ryan Holiday	https://amzn.to/468QeAH	Tim Soulo
The Psychology of Money	Morgan Housel	https://amzn.to/3ubF7tA	Andy Cloke
Thinking, Fast and Slow	Daniel Kahneman	https://amzn.to/3Qyug4u	Courtland Allen
Traction	Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares	https://amzn.to/49yYL2C	Sabba Keynejad, Elston Baretto, Peter Suhm, Jim Raptis
Untethered Soul	Michael Singer	https://amzn.to/49uHgRf	Bram Kanstein
What You Do Is Who You Are	Ben Horowitz	https://amzn.to/3SCENy1	Spencer Fry
Who Not How	Dan Sullivan	https://amzn.to/3MDDsU3	Craig Hewitt
Why We Sleep	Matthew Walker	https://amzn.to/3SC1UsL	Patrick Posner, Marc Louvion
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	https://amzn.to/3FT1F4Q	Louis Nicholls
Zero to One	Peter Thiel	https://amzn.to/3SxSQVJ	Dagobert Renouf
Zero to Sold	Arvid Kahl	https://amzn.to/4775cbz	Kyle Gawley

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.

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Read the books most recommended by indie hackers 📚