Curated Books for Product Managers
Explore our handpicked collection of must-read product management books for valuable insights and strategies
Starting PM Career or New Role
Propel your product management career forward with essential books guiding professional growth and development.
- The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
- The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
- Cracking the PM Career: The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices to Become a Great Product Manager
- The Product Book: How to Become a Great Product Manager
- Product Leadership
- HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers
Building Products
Master the art of product development with insightful reads on effective product building
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- Intercom on Product Management
- Ship It: Silicon Valley Product Managers Reveal All
- Product Mindset
- EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
- Evidence-Guided: Creating High Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty
- Product Operations: How successful companies build better products at scale
- Jobs to be Done: Theory to Practice
- Intercom on Jobs‑to‑be‑Done
- Competing Against Luck
- The SaaS Playbook
- Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
Startups
Navigate the challenges of startup culture and product management with key reads tailored for entrepreneurial success.
- Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Product Execution
Dive into books that provide practical insights on successfully executing and delivering exceptional products.
- Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
- The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
- When Coffee & Kale Compete: Become Great at Making Products People Will Buy
- Blitzscaling
Leadership
- Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
- Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
- Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams
- Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
- High Output Management
- Management by First Round
Customer Interviews
Hone your product discovery with books emphasizing the importance of effective customer interviews and discovery Habits in product development.
- The Mom Test
- Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
- Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
- Talking to Humans
Decision Making
Sharpen your decision-making skills with literature that explores the intricacies of choices in product management
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
- Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
- The Decision Checklist: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Problems
Strategies
Explore strategic approaches to product management through books that illuminate successful planning and execution.
- Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
- Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
- Competitive Advantage
Emerging Technology
Stay abreast of technological advancements and their impact on product management with recommended reads on the subject.
- AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
- Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
- Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning
- Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
- You Look Like a Thing and I Love You
Product Metrics
Understand the significance of metrics and analytics in product management through insightful books on measurement and analysis.
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with Okrs
- Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
- Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Product Design
Elevate your product's user experience with books that delve into the principles and practices of effective design.
- Solving Product Design Exercises: Questions & Answers
- User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
- Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
- Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love
- Build Better Products: A Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products
- Design That Scales
- Design for How People Think
Engineering
Gain valuable insights into how software engineering teams operate efficiently, foster a culture of innovation, and apply systems thinking principles to enhance overall engineering excellence and collaboration within your organization.
- Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer
- Refactoring UI
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Enterprise API Management
- The Design of Web APIs
- Building Microservices
- Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
- API Analytics for Product Managers
Communication
Enhance your communication skills crucial for effective product management with recommended books on clear and impactful messaging.
- Never Split the Difference
- Crucial Conversations
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Games People Play
Marketing
- Obviously Awesome
- Ogilvy on Advertising
- Crossing the Chasm
- Tested Advertising Methods
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On
- Building a StoryBrand
- Growth Hacker Marketing
Platform Product Management
Explore the unique challenges and strategies specific to platform product management through specialized reads in this category.
- Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--and How to Make Them Work for You
- Effective Platform Product Management