Thinking about starting your own business? Great! Before you do, take a look at these 24 books specifically written to teach you everything you need to know about setting up and successfully running, your own business.

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24 Books You Need To Read Before Starting A Business

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1.) The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, by Guy Kawasaki

2.) The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, by Michael Gerber

3.) Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days, by Jessica Livingston

4.) Start Run & Grow a Successful Small Business, by Toolkit Media Group

5.) The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, by Noam Wasserman

6.) The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, by Eric Ries

7.) Startup from the Ground Up: Practical Insights for Transforming an Idea into a Business, by Cynthia Kocialski

8.) Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, by Peter Thiel

9.) Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don’t Waste Your Time and Money, by Thomas K. McKnight

10.) Start Your Own Business: The Only Startup Book You’ll Ever Need, by The Staff of Entrepreneur Media

11.) The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms, by Danielle LaPorte

12.) Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur, by Pamela Slim

13.) Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong, by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull

14.) The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, by Timothy Ferriss

15.) Lucky Or Smart?: Fifty Pages for the First-Time Entrepreneur, by Bo Peabody

16.) Million Dollar Consulting, by Alan Weiss

17.) The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company, by Steve Blank

18.) The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future, by Chris Guillebeau

19.) The Barefoot Executive: The Ultimate Guide for Being Your Own Boss and Achieving Financial Freedom, by Carrie Wilkerson

20.) Rework, by Jason Fried

21.) Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry, by Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler

22.) Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success, by Thomas J. DeLong

23.) Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, by Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson

24.) The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business, by Clayton M. Christensen