The following post is a list of books that would be helpful for bloggers - particularly those wishing to make a business from their blogging activities. It has been compiled both from my own suggestions as well as those of a number of other bloggers (see the bottom of the list for those who helped).

When I called for suggestions for books I said that they don’t have to be blogging specific (although they can be) but rather they should be books that help bloggers to improve any aspect of their blogging. As a result the topics in the list are quite wide and cover a range of topics including marketing, creative thinking, web development, other business topics as well as a few blog specific books.

Blogging

• Blog Marketing
• Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers
• The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right
• Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging
• Blogging for Business: Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care
• Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))
• Money For Content and Your Clicks For Free: Turning Web Sites, Blogs, and Podcasts Into Cash

Copy Writing

• Zen in the Art of Writing
• Write It Right: The Ground Rules for Self-Editing Like the Pros
• 1000 Most Important Words
• Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
• On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (On Writing Well)
• Rules for Writers
• Choose the Right Word: Second Edition
• Advertising Secrets of the Written Word: The Ultimate Resource on How to Write Powerful Advertising Copy from One of America’s Top Copywriters and Mail Order Entrepreneurs
• Breakthrough Advertising: How to Write Ads That Shatter Traditions and Sales Records
• The Copywriter’s Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells. Revised and Expanded
• Hot Text: Web Writing that Works
• Advertising Secrets of the Written Word
• Tested Advertising Methods
• Ogilvy on Advertising
• The Story Factor

Business

• The Art of War: The oldest military treatise in the world
• Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service
• Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
• The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
• Power of An Hour: Business and Life Mastery in One Hour A Week
• An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths

Marketing

• All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
• The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
• Life After the 30-Second Spot: Energize Your Brand With a Bold Mix of Alternatives to Traditional Advertising
• Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands
• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
• Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices
• Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
• Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?: Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing
• Advertising Headlines That Make You Rich

Creative Thinking

• Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas
• Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (Perennial Library)
• Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
• Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)
• A Technique for Producing Ideas (Advertising Age Classics Library)
• Six Thinking Hats

Miscellaneous

• The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
• The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information
• That’s Not What I Meant!
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
• The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress
• Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
• A Rulebook for Arguments
• Discovering Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Writing with Readings (2nd Edition)
• The Art of Looking Sideways
• Communities Dominate Brands
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
• Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies
• Join Me!
• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
• Rivers of Revenue: What to Do When the Money Stops Flowing
• The 80/20 Principle
• The Wisdom of Crowds
• The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense
• Make Easy Money with Google: Using the AdSense Advertising Program

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