Great Business and Agile Books for Startups

I keep running into great sources of information.  List of books I should read that I rarely find time for.  I’ll post a few great lists I’ve found. I’ve been wanting to build myself a list of must-reads that I hope you’ll find helpful too.

Here’s a list of Agile related books that I recommend.  Please add more in the comments – I’m interested in finding new books too!

1. Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum – Mike Cohn
2. Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash – Mary and Tom Poppendieck
3. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition) – Kent Beck
4. The Art of Agile Development – James Shore
5. Agile Web Development with Rails – Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson
6. Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional) – Ken Schwaber
7. User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development – Mike Cohn
8. Agile Estimating and Planning – Mike Cohn
9. Agile Software Development with Scrum (Series in Agile Software Development) – Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle
10. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (2nd Edition) – Jim Highsmith

Must-read books for startups (and general business books) great list from Quora:

1. The Four Steps to the Epiphany – Steven Gary Blank
2. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany – Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits
3. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers and Challengers – Yves Pigneur and Alex Osterwalder
4. Founders at Work – Jessica Livingston
5. Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur – Pamela Slim
6. My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley – Ben Casnocha
7. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
8. Crossing the Chasm – Geoff Moore
9. The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
10. Getting to Plan B – Randy Komisar & John Mullins
11. The Art of the Start – Guy Kawasaki
12. Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation – Andrew Metrick
13. Viral Loop – Adam L. Penenberg
14. The Monk and the Riddle – Randy Komisar
15. The PayPal Wars – Eric M. Jackson
16. The Facebook Effect – David Kirkpatrick
17. Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good – Sarah Lacyhttp://amzn.to/gd0sJ4
18. Made to Stick – Chip Heath and Dan Heath http://amzn.to/eo6ndK
19. Landing Page Optimization Tim Ash http://amzn.to/gYpVPY
20. Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity Avinash Kaushik http://amzn.to/etvEZe
21. The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene http://amzn.to/h5oiYa
22. The Non-Designer’s Design Book – Robin Williams http://amzn.to/hXtbyL
23. Getting Real – Jason Fried, David Hansson, Matthew Lindermanhttp://amzn.to/gdY3VX
24. Dreaming in Code – Scot Rosenberg http://amzn.to/dX5MSq
25. Do More Faster – David Cohen, Brad Feld http://amzn.to/fwdbH5
26. RockStar Business – Adriaan Pienaar http://amzn.to/dKipra
27. Crush It – Gary Vaynerchuk http://amzn.to/fz2e2b
28. Fascinate – Sally Hogshead http://amzn.to/i9wgEY
29. The Theory of Fun – Raph Koster http://amzn.to/dEt2n1
30. Lincoln on Leadership – Donald Phillips http://amzn.to/fmLeC9
31. The Paradox of Choice – Barry Schwartz http://amzn.to/gwpAkd
32. How We Decide – Jonah Lehrer http://amzn.to/gRYTUr
33. Courage: The Backbone of Leadership – Gus Lee http://amzn.to/gzEUVV
34. The E-Myth Revisted – Michael Gerber http://amzn.to/glZPcE
35. Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug http://amzn.to/eiKUIC
36. The Mythical Man Month – Fred Brooks http://amzn.to/hhKTR0
37. Difficult Conversations: How to discuss what matters most – Doug Stone et al. http://amzn.to/f9Xkeg
38. Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy – Carl Shapiro http://amzn.to/hn4Wbj
39. Only the Paranoid Survive – Andrew Grove http://amzn.to/ev5Z6d
40. Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh http://amzn.to/dJNO2X
41. Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure – Jerry Kaplan http://amzn.to/fTnqHe
42. The Nudist On The Late Shift – Po Bronson http://amzn.to/eCtiAV
43. The Microsoft Way – Randall Stross http://amzn.to/ekJ8P3
44. Inside Intel – Tim Jackson http://amzn.to/fhVS0w
45. Accidental Empires – Robert X. Cringely http://amzn.to/gf0hTa
46. Wisdom Of Crowds – James Surowiecki http://amzn.to/ekOH0A
47. Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell http://amzn.to/eIM0Cx
48. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation – Steven Johnson http://amzn.to/fVFgdi
49. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Coveyhttp://amzn.to/e3Z1Yp
50. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant – W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgnehttp://amzn.to/dV0Upi
51. The Deviant’s Advantage – Ryan Matthews, Watts Wackerhttp://amzn.to/dMlpko
52. Good to Great by Jim Collins http://amzn.to/e5oALJ
53. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Dan Pinkhttp://amzn.to/hnmyz
54. Crucial Conversations Kerry Patterson et al. http://amzn.to/hhQ41Y
55. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol Dweckhttp://amzn.to/eygzLp
56. Influencer: The Power to Change Anything – Kerry Pattersonhttp://amzn.to/dYpyAM
57. Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace – Gordon MacKenzie http://amzn.to/fH5AYj
58. Hope for the Flowers – Trina Paulus http://amzn.to/icpQHb
59. Finding fertile ground – Dr. Scott A. Shane http://amzn.to/guIkjN
60. Making Ideas Happen – Scott Belsky http://amzn.to/dUSmUk
61. Rework – Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson http://amzn.to/gZI8wW

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