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Books like Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

The best books like Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products are The Power of Habit, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, and Predictably Irrational. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal is about habit formation, product design, behavioral psychology. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Power of Habit
    The Power of Habit

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    The Power of Habit

    Charles Duhigg · Psychology

    The Power of Habit is Charles Duhigg's investigation into why habits exist and how they can be changed.

    A kindred business read.

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  2. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
    Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

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    Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

    Robert B. Cialdini · Psychology

    Influence is Robert Cialdini's account of why people say yes, and how that agreement is manufactured.

    Shares behavioral psychology and persuasion with Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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  3. Predictably Irrational
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    Predictably Irrational

    Dan Ariely · Psychology

    Predictably Irrational is Dan Ariely's examination of how humans make decisions that are consistently, systematically irrational — not random or arbitrary, but irrational in ways that follow patterns.

    A kindred business read.

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  1. Atomic Habits
    Atomic Habits

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    Atomic Habits

    James Clear · Self-help

    Atomic Habits is James Clear's framework for how very small changes — habits so minor they seem to make no difference on any given day — compound into remarkable results over months and years.

    A kindred business read.

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  2. Thinking, Fast and Slow
    Thinking, Fast and Slow

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · Psychology

    Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.

    A kindred business read.

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  3. Never Split the Difference
    Never Split the Difference

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    Never Split the Difference

    Chris Voss · Business

    Never Split the Difference is Chris Voss's argument that the rational, compromise-based negotiation frameworks taught in business schools miss something fundamental about how people actually make decisions.

    Both dig into persuasion.

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  4. No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
    No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

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    No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

    Sarah Frier · Business

    No Filter is Sarah Frier's account of Instagram's founding, its acquisition by Facebook, and the decade-long tension between Instagram's founders and Mark Zuckerberg over what the product should become.

    Both dig into product design.

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  5. SPIN Selling
    SPIN Selling

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    SPIN Selling

    Neil Rackham · Business

    SPIN Selling is Neil Rackham's distillation of twelve years of research and over 35,000 sales calls analyzed to determine what separates effective salespeople in complex, high-value B2B transactions from their less successful counterparts.

    Both dig into persuasion.

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  6. Sprint
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    Sprint

    Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz · Business

    Sprint is the account of the design sprint methodology developed at Google Ventures — a five-day process for answering critical business questions through rapid prototyping and real user testing.

    Both dig into product design.

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  7. The Boron Letters
    The Boron Letters

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    The Boron Letters

    Gary Halbert · Business

    The Boron Letters is a collection of letters written by Gary Halbert to his son Bond from Boron Federal Prison Camp in California, where Halbert was serving time for mail fraud in the early 1980s.

    Both dig into persuasion.

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  8. The Challenger Sale
    The Challenger Sale

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    The Challenger Sale

    Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson · Business

    The Challenger Sale is Dixon and Adamson's research-backed challenge to the most deeply held assumption in B2B sales: that the best salespeople are Relationship Builders who develop trust through accommodation and responsiveness.

    Both dig into persuasion.

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  9. To Sell Is Human
    To Sell Is Human

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    To Sell Is Human

    Daniel H. Pink · Business

    To Sell Is Human is Daniel Pink's case that selling — in the broad sense of moving people to think or act differently — is central to what most of us do at work every day, whether or not our job title includes the word "sales." Drawing on Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Pink estimates that Americans spend roughly 40% of their work time in non-sales selling: persuading, convincing, and nudging.

    Both dig into persuasion.

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Books like Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products: quick answers

What are the best books like Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products?

The best books like Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal are The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Atomic Habits by James Clear, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, such as habit formation, product design, behavioral psychology.

What should I read after Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products?

A natural next read after Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products is The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. A kindred business read. Other strong choices are Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Atomic Habits by James Clear.

What books are similar to Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal?

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products centers on habit formation, product design, behavioral psychology. Books with a similar feel include The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Atomic Habits by James Clear, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.

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