Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Key Take-Away: Resistance is real — battle it like an artist.

165 pages

2. Hooked — by Nir Eyal (Ryan Hoover)

How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Key Take-Away: Create habit-forming loops to keep customers coming back.

209 pages

“Ignore this book at your own peril” — Seth Godin

Key Take-Away: Un-know what you know about how to do business.

271 pages (more than 1/2 illustrations)

The Ultimate Guide to Running a Successful Freelance Business

Key Take-Away: Tons of practical, actionable tips for going it alone.

175 pages

10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Key Take-Away: Hey, being an artist is a lot like being an entrepreneur!

140 pages (of illustrations)

Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Key Take-Away: If you stand out, people will take notice.

137 pages

Why NOW is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

Key Take-Away: This book might have been the impetus for Shia LaBeouf’s video, it’s that motivational.

134 pages

Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time

Key Take-Away: If you don’t “get” Twitter, you’re doing it wrong.

198 pages

Build Products Your Customers Will Buy

Key Take-Away: Talk to your customers, they don’t bite — but they do know your business better than you.

194 pages

Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

Key Take-Away: Everybody does productivity a little different, so you might as well learn from these geniuses.

211 pages (little less than)

Interaction Design to Lead Us Into Temptation

Damn, this is a long one! But read each of the Seven Deadly Sins as its own book, and it becomes airplane reading.

Key Take-Away: A million tricky little ways to increase conversion.

267 pages