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Books on Product Management and Business Strategy

Marty Cagan's book "Inspired" which I review here. 

Expert Product Management: Advanced Techniques, Tips and Strategies for Product Management & Product Marketing by Brian Lawley(from the 280Group) which I review here

Blue Ocean Strategy by Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgn

Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore

Product Strategy for High Technology Companies by Michael McGrath

The Product Managers Handbook by Linda Gorchels

Secrets of Software Success : Management Insights from 100 Software Firms Around the World by Detlev Hoch

Software Product Management Essentials by Alyssa Dver which I review here

The Art of Product Management by Rich Mironov

Innovator's Dilemma - When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton Christensen

The Lean Startup How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
or his follow-on book The Startup Way

Innovation Games by Luke Hohmann which I review here

The Hard Thing about Hard Things Building a Business When There are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution by Geoffrey Moore

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

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr

Competitive Advantage by Michael Porter is the classic text on company level strategy. Competitive Strategy by Porter talks about analyzing industries and competitors and is summarized in Competitive Advantage.

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

Don't Make me Think by Steve Krug

​Culture Code - Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle which I review here

Cracking the PM Interview by McDowell and Bavaro