Recommended Books for Product Managers

This is a dynamic list of books I found useful and helpful on different topics related to product management.

On building teams

1. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
2. High Output Management
3. Score Takes Care Of Itself
4. Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
5. Lying

On strategy and building products

1. The Innovator’s Dilemma
2. Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
3. One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making
4. Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
5. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
6. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
7. Zero to One
8. Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
9. Thinking in Systems
10. Frankenstein

On culture

1. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
2. That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
3. What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
4. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
5. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

On self-improvement

1. Principles: Life and Work
2. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
3. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

On writing

1. On Writing Well
2. Studies in the Way of Words

On design

1. The Design of Everyday Things
2. A Pattern Language
3. Universal Principles of Design
4. Super Normal
5. Living with Complexity
6. Creativity, Inc.
7. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
8. The Elements of Typographic Style

On psychology and human behavior

1. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
2. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
3. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
4. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
5. Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
6. The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do
7. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
8. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress
9. The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It