r/Entrepreneur · 2019
Most-mentioned books in r/Entrepreneur during 2019
This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/Entrepreneur within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.
#1 The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
Michael Gerber's diagnosis: most small business owners don't own a business — they own a job, and they're the worst boss they've ever had.
#2 Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
A former FBI hostage negotiator teaches the same tactical empathy he used to talk down kidnappers — applied to salary talks, vendor deals, and difficult bosses.
#3 The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Eric Ries tells founders to ship a broken version on purpose, collect data, and repeat until the market stops ignoring them.
#4 The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
Tim Ferriss's 2007 case for outsourcing your life and working 4 hours a week has become a meme, but 18 Reddit mentions suggest the Pareto principle chapter still lands.
#5 Good to Great
Jim Collins
Jim Collins studied 1,435 companies to find 11 that leapt from average to elite — the book r/Entrepreneur still recommends even after the methodology got shredded.
#6 High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Andy Grove's Intel management playbook from 1983 — two r/startups commenters call it the book that forced them to stop playing player-coach and start leading.
#7 Start with Why
Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek's one-idea book on purpose-driven business: the concept fits on a napkin, and r/Entrepreneur knows it.
#8 The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Eli Goldratt's 1984 novel about a plant manager with 90 days to save his factory before corporate shuts it down.
#9 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz on the decisions nobody prepares you for: layoffs, firings, and the WFIO moments every real company survives or doesn't.
#10 Company of One
Paul Jarvis
Paul Jarvis's argument that staying small on purpose beats chasing growth, cited on r/startups as the book that reframes what a business is allowed to be.
#11 Deep Work
Cal Newport
Cal Newport makes the case that sustained focus is a trainable skill, then shows why almost every modern workplace is systematically destroying it.
#12 Principles
Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio turns his hedge fund's internal operating manual into a 500-page life philosophy—and Reddit isn't sure whether to treat it as scripture or autobiography.
#13 Profit First
Mike Michalowicz
Mike Michalowicz proposes you pay yourself first, put the money in a separate account, and build a business on what's left—which turns out to be most of the job.
#14 Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Phil Knight recounts selling Japanese running shoes out of a car trunk in 1962 and the 26-year scramble to turn that bet into Nike.
#15 The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
A psychiatrist's account of how trauma rewires the brain and body, and what 690 Reddit mentions across trauma subs say about whether the treatment map holds up.
#16 The Total Money Makeover
Dave Ramsey
Dave Ramsey's seven baby steps: the debt half works, the investing half gets blocked alongside his YouTube channel.
#17 Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel argues that copying what already works produces competition and thin margins, and that building a monopoly is the only business worth starting.