r/Entrepreneur · 2023

Most-mentioned books in r/Entrepreneur during 2023

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/Entrepreneur within the published source unit for 2023. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2023

Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions

The E-Myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber

Michael Gerber argues most small-business owners are technicians who mistake liking the craft for knowing how to run the company around it.

7 in 2023

$100M Offers

Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi's pricing manual, passed around r/Entrepreneur reading lists alongside Zero to One and Good to Great.

3 in 2023

Buy Then Build

Walker Deibel

Walker Deibel's case that buying an existing profitable business beats starting from scratch, recommended on r/Entrepreneur as the first stop before any acquisition.

3 in 2023

Atomic Habits

James Clear

James Clear argues that habits built two minutes at a time compound, over a year, into a completely different person.

2 in 2023

Company of One

Paul Jarvis

Paul Jarvis argues a business can choose to stay one person forever, and treats every 'when will you scale' question as the wrong question.

2 in 2023

Hooked

Nir Eyal

A product designer maps the four-step loop (trigger, action, variable reward, investment) that keeps you opening apps you meant to delete.

2 in 2023

The 4-Hour Workweek

Timothy Ferriss

A guy quits his cubicle, outsources his own job to a virtual assistant, and starts running his business from wherever he wants.

2 in 2023

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.

2 in 2023

Good to Great

Jim Collins

A researcher spends five years asking why a handful of mediocre companies suddenly started beating the market and never stopped.

1 in 2023

#10

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

Robert Cialdini spent years studying the six levers that move people to say yes — scarcity, authority, social proof, and three more you've already been hit with today.

1 in 2023

#11

Made to Stick

Chip Heath

Chip and Dan Heath take apart six ideas that lasted centuries and explain the structural reasons your last presentation was forgotten by Tuesday.

1 in 2023

#12

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

A former FBI hostage negotiator teaches you to get what you want in any negotiation by never actually accepting the middle.

1 in 2023

#13

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.

1 in 2023

#14

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Phil Knight borrows $50 from his dad, sells Japanese running shoes out of his car, and spends two decades nearly bankrupt building Nike.

1 in 2023

#15

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

A consultant argues that Apple and Martin Luther King succeeded for the same underlying reason, then builds an entire framework around explaining it.

1 in 2023

#16

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.

1 in 2023

#17

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

A cash-strapped founder ships an unfinished product on purpose, watches strangers misuse it, and rewrites the business plan around what they actually did.

1 in 2023

#18

Traction

Gino Wickman

Gino Wickman gives small business owners a six-part operating system — Vision, People, Data, Process, Issues, Traction — and a meeting structure to run it.

1 in 2023