BOOK SUMMARY

The 7 best Growth hacking books

Updated: July 14th, 2025

Growth hacking is about finding ways to get outsized growth returns with fewer resources, to beat competition and grow your startup faster.

Hacking growth is about running scientific experiments and as much art as science, where you need to get practical - and get your hands dirty. However, reading books can accelerate your learning, and provide inspiration for what to try next.

Let's get into the carefully curated list of top books on growth hacking.

1. Growth Hacking Reddit

2025My rating: 5
How to get customers and grow your startup using Reddit. The playbook to growth hacking on Reddit. Focused on B2B SaaS.
Jonathan Rintala

2. Product-Led Growth

2019Pages: 238 My rating: 5Goodreads: 4.1
The handbook on product-led-growth (PLG). In short - how to build a product that sells itself.
Wes Bush

3. The $150M Secret

Pages: 222 My rating: 5Goodreads: 4.3
How to bootstrap and sell a $150M company in 3.5 years. Practical tips - for example: screenshots of cold outreach templates to use, LinkedIn content plays, and learning from big startup failures. Finally, a hands-on guide on startup acquisition.
Guillaume Moubeche

4. Trajectory: Startup: Ideation to Product/Market Fit

Pages: 272 My rating: 4Goodreads: 4.31
This book provides practical advice and learnings from the ideation phase to finding product-market fit. 14 different revenue models are presented, together with a path to get you from ideation to launch and revenue in just six months.
Dave Parker

5. Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Pages: 256 My rating: 4Goodreads: 3.97
Understanding the WHY behind word of mouth and mastering virality to make your product spread.
Jonah Berger

6. Growth Hacker Marketing

Pages: 144 My rating: 3Goodreads: 3.77
How to use a creative hacker mindset together with your product to grow beyond what’s possible in traditional marketing channels. 'A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising'.
Ryan Holiday

7. Hacking Growth

2017Pages: 320 Goodreads: 4.11
How to grow your startup - using 100s of proven tips to hack growth - from the most successful startups of all time like Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb.
Sean Ellis