BOOK SUMMARY

The 9 best SaaS books

Updated: July 17th, 2025

Books about the best business model in the world - SaaS (Software as a Service). Well, here is a curated top list of books on the topic of SaaS. Whether you are helping out growing one, building your own SaaS, or playing B2B vs B2C - these are reads that will get you to your goals faster.

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.

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. Exit Strategy

2024Pages: 280 My rating: 4Goodreads: 5

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling Your Business Without Regret.

Rob Walling, Sherry Walling

5. Getting Acquired: How I Built and Sold My SaaS Startup

Pages: 214 My rating: 4Goodreads: 4.03

How to grow a SaaS company, build a compelling brand story to scale, and optimize likelihood of a great exit for the founder.

Andrew Gazdecki

6. The SaaS Playbook

2023Pages: 201 My rating: 4Goodreads: 4.7

How to build a lean million-dollar SaaS, market against large competitors, and use your position as underdog as an unfair advantage.

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.

8. Hooked: How to build habit-forming products

2013Pages: 256 Goodreads: 4.1

How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

9. The Minimalist Entrepreneur

2021Pages: 256 Goodreads: 4.22