Books for beginners

Reading books on product management is a valuable investment in your career development. The books mentioned below provide a solid foundation and practical insights for aspiring product managers. By learning from the experiences and expertise of industry leaders, you can enhance your skills and excel in the dynamic field of product management. Please note that there are many books and many of them have same content for the topics. Pick any one to start off, and then move on to other resources. Just read descriptions first to know if you are able to connect with the book and if it makes a more interesting read for you by going to their links.

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Click or tap on the titles to go to the link. For paid resources, they are just indicative links, you can buy from anywhere.

Free:

1. The Product Book: This provides a good start to understand product management. Best part is it is free knowledge to start your journey. 
2. Intercom on Product Management: Read this to further your knowledge about existing product improvements and continue improving it. 
3. Strategic Product Management Book for Open Product Management Workflow: Covers strategy, technical and go to market approaches.
4. Trailblazing Women in Product Management: If you are a woman, and want to know how the career in product management will be, then read this book. A lot of opportunities awaits you.
5. Product Management:By Hubspot, gives you an orientation towards product management career.

Paid:

1. 1. Product Management for dummies: You would get comprehensive view about product world as well as some business knowledge by reading this book. Do not go by its name, it gives you a good flow on how everything is connected. 
   2. The secret product manager handbook: Understand why product management with this book.
   3. Cracking the PM Career: Good when you are sure to build a strong career in product management. Good read for those who just got the first job in product management.
   4. The product manager’s survival guide: Find ways to progress towards better product building. 
   5. Tech Simplified: Understand basics of technology in simple terms with this book. 
   6. Swipe to unlock: This book is yet another one to help you in understanding technology like a layman. 
   7. Product Management in Practice: A practical guide on day to day work of the product manager and how to deal with things in practice. 
   8. Product Management Simplified: Good to begin your journey through step by step approach towards product management. 

1. Oreilly: You can read a lot of books for free here for first 10 days. After that it is upto you to subscribe or buy individual books. If you are an avid reader, then this site is a must have to possess great knowledge.
   1. The Complete Product Management fundamentals: This book will cover your basics well.
   2. Product Managenment Fundamentals The Who, What and Why, and How of Product Management: Yet another book to cover your basics. 
   3. Product management: Good read for understading the relationship within organization to lead by influence. 

Free:

1. Technical Product Management Book for Open Product Management Workflow: Covers your technical understandings.
2. Go-to-Market Book for Open Product Management Workflow: Comes late in the stage of product management, however, strategically important. 
3. Ship it: A book to keep close for user research and right metrics. 
4. Data Driven Poduct Manager: Understand role of data and how to apply it in product world.
5. The Guide to product Analytics: Mixpanels introduction to product analytics.
6. Design better: How to design products better.
7. Prototyping for Product Managers: Learn how to build those prototypes for faster decision making of which products to launch for effective usage.

1. User Story Mapping: covers the part where you work with engineering teams to ship effective products.
2. Lean product Playbook: A must read for lean product development and effective delivery of impactful products, especially building MVPs(Minimum Viable Products).
3. The MOM test: The name is interesting and the content is more interesting as it defines how you can have better conversations with customers to find what matters.
4. The Making of a Manager: For those who want to lead better. 
5. The lean startup: Yet another book to focus on lean development. Focus on testing every assumption before moving further.
6. The design of everyday things: Covers basics of product designs.
7. Experimentation Works: Get introduced to the experiment world of building the right product.
8. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Get introduced to Agile ways of working with this read. Good for those who follow agile principles at work.

Free:

1. Hired: Know what it takes to get into product management role.

Paid: 

1. Decode and Conquer: A book which covers all areas of product interviews. 
2. Cracking the PM interview: Another interview preparation topics which covers interview tips based on top technology companies.